So the system with no controllers and with the black front instead of the wood front, is $200 plus shipping. The system with the wood front, with 1 joystick and 1 gamepad is $340 plus shipping.
Does this seem really steep to anyone else? I mean, this is basically the MSRP of the Nintendo Switch and we don’t even know what the hardware will be capable of doing outside of emulating Atari games. There will be some type of online service but there will also be a subscription required and there is a voice command feature. And people are shelling out $200 USD for this? This seems insane. Also, yes, the case looks pretty cool, but with the way its designed, it looks like there is really going to be no way to change out the hardware if you just really like the case.
Yeah, I mean for the specs and the retro custom appeal it is not terrible. If I was in the market for something like this I would not feel to hard done by at that price.
This is true. It is a set and forget type of deal. a PC console if you will which is what they were aiming for so I so no major problem. People that want this likely all ready have a higher spec machine that is up-gradable so no big really. It a built for purpose machine like the Iintel NUCs and other such Mini PCs.
If it wasn’t shipping next year I’d totally get one just to put a different OS on it and give it to my parents. It’s definitely going to be good enough for internets and FaceTubes and Youbooks for them, and it’s small and not entirely ugly.
there is no subscription required to play games. But under the feature connect, it says a subscription will be required for “advanced services”; god knows what counts as that.
I believe that would come under the Cloud Storage: Yes. Additional Service Offering So if you are running steam of have Dropbox or similar all ready, no worries.
Bristol Ridge with Radeon R7? That is the old APU stuff that nobody wants anymore, right?
Hope they got a good deal out of those. Because that price probably has to come down.
Wait, July 2019? How long is this crap in development at this point?
yeah, i googled bristol ridge a10 and couldn’t find anything other than the atari announcement for it. but searching just for bristol ridge, its the APU before Raven Ridge. Trying to find benchmarks, but its difficult.
yeah you probably wont find it benched against much else than Integrated because that would not be a fair representation. After all it is an APU with Integrated Graphics, no pint Comparing it to even an R7 270.
What exactly are you looking for/hoping for. This is low level stuff not 1080ti level.
If it is the A10-9700 then most 2017 or older PC games on low to medium between 28-55fps but would need to run some at 720p, hope the ram is upgradeable though because that tosses the 28-55ish fps out the window in a lot of things if you are under 8GB, or the RAM is to slow.
i want to know exactly what it will be capable of. Yeah, I can find a couple benchmarks with a few games maybe, but that isn’t helpful. If i knew it was pretty comparable to a gtx270, then at least i could look for a modern gpu thats comparable to a 270 and like see what games have their minimum requirements at or below that card.
Depends, the highest TDP on Bristol Ridge is 65Watts…
Yeah definitely need more info to come out.
So far I got the idea that it will be somewhere between a R5 240
to a R7 265 and mostly depending on the ram they use.
