Vapourware Racing game studio Slighly Mad is makeing a console

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https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/2/18165799/mad-box-console-ian-bell-slightly-mad

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CEO of Project CARS developer Slightly Mad Studios teases new console on Twitter
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More details on the ‘Mad Box’ are expected later this month
By Charlie Hall@Charlie_L_Hall Jan 2, 2019, 5:16pm EST


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The CEO of Slightly Mad Studios, maker of the Project CARS franchise of simulation racing games, is teasing a new video game console on Twitter. Called the Mad Box, the device will be designed, built, marketed, and sold by an unannounced business entity, Ian Bell tells Polygon.

“What is the Mad Box?” Bell asked in the sixth message sent from an entirely new social media account, prompting a flurry of new followers. “It’s the most powerful console ever built... It’s literally ‘Mad’... You want 4k, you want VR at 60FPS? You want a full engine for free to develop your games on it? You have it.”

Reached for comment, Bell said that the console would be compatible with the cross-platform game engine that Slightly Mad has used in the past, the Madness engine. Slightly Mad’s marketing materials stress that it is especially well-suited to virtual reality and vehicle simulations.

One curious claim Bell made on Twitter is that the console will deliver virtual reality at 60 frames per second. But that’s already common for most consumer-grade VR headsets. Sony, for example, announced in 2016 that it wouldn’t certify any game for the PlayStation VR that couldn’t meet that threshold. Asked by followers to clarify what he meant by this claim, Bell said the 60 fps figure quoted was “per eye.”

“60 FPS per eye is hyper smooth with panning algorithms,” Bell said to Polygon, promising that more information will be made public later in January.

Will this console beat the Ouya?

 

[J_C]

Well we at least know why they are called Slightly MAD Studios. Although I'd rename them to Totally Mad Studios.

 

[Bester]

A console with none of the Xbox or PS4 exclusives? You want it? You have it!

Spoiler

It's called a PC.

 

[Jacob]

reminds me of neo geo, a high powered console for specialist games.

if the free engine is actually useful, expect to see more specialist games developed for this console. we might even see more of those maximalist space sims. and if it's priced at sub $1000 and is as strong as it claims it might be worth it to get this instead of a high end gaming pc.

 

[Makabb]

This will be another flop like all the other previous consoles (OUYA, steam box etc)

 

[Zarniwoop]

Yeah, ask Soulja Boy how that worked out for him.

 

[Astral Rag]

 

[Jacob]

This will be another flop like all the other previous consoles (OUYA, steam box etc)

Those two looks gay, this has potential (Though likely to flop too)

I want this to succeed. I want a high-end console that can play games that wouldn't run otherwise unless I spend $3000 for a gaming PC. I want to see some fat nerd from a rich family using the engine provided to create a massive simulation game with graphics better than PS5/XboxTwo from his basement.

 

[Makabb]

It's impossible because that mad dog console will be hit by giant diminishing returns if they want to compete with ps5/xbawx 2, it will have to cost like 1000$ to have latest hardware to have any significant improvement over ps5 and no one will buy a console for 1000$.
And if it will be released 2-3 years after ps5/xbawx2 for a normal price, it already lost because everyone will have ps5 by this point.

 

[Jacob]

It's impossible because that mad dog console will be hit by giant diminishing returns if they want to compete with ps5/xbawx 2, it will have to cost like 1000$ to have latest hardware to have any significant improvement over ps5 and no one will buy a console for 1000$.
And if it will be released 2-3 years after ps5/xbawx2 for a normal price, it already lost because everyone will have ps5 by this point.

it shouldn't compete directly with ps5 and friends though. everyone that wants kiddie games can have their ps5. this should be a console for BIGG BOYS only.

 

[J_C]

It's impossible because that mad dog console will be hit by giant diminishing returns if they want to compete with ps5/xbawx 2, it will have to cost like 1000$ to have latest hardware to have any significant improvement over ps5 and no one will buy a console for 1000$.
And if it will be released 2-3 years after ps5/xbawx2 for a normal price, it already lost because everyone will have ps5 by this point.

it shouldn't compete directly with ps5 and friends though. everyone that wants kiddie games can have their ps5. this should be a console for BIGG BOYS only.

Big boys play on PC.

 

[Jacob]

It's impossible because that mad dog console will be hit by giant diminishing returns if they want to compete with ps5/xbawx 2, it will have to cost like 1000$ to have latest hardware to have any significant improvement over ps5 and no one will buy a console for 1000$.
And if it will be released 2-3 years after ps5/xbawx2 for a normal price, it already lost because everyone will have ps5 by this point.

it shouldn't compete directly with ps5 and friends though. everyone that wants kiddie games can have their ps5. this should be a console for BIGG BOYS only.

Big boys play on PC.

Big boys play Minesweeper on PC, but they play games such as Accurate Starship Yamato Simulator VR on Slightly Mad's console.

 

[Thane Solus]

sooo... OUYA II !

 

[J1M]

Was expecting this to focus on racing peripherals. Expand to flight sims with joystick, etc.

 

[LESS T_T]

Apparently he joined Twitter few days ago.

 

[Shackleton]

This has got to be a streaming box, surely? Remote streaming has come a long way since OnLive, I've been waiting to see who churns out a console built around it. It's almost impossible to imagine they're building a standalone console in this day and age.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Blurred the internals... of some shitty 3D renders of something that doesn't even exist. Cool story, bro.

Also, that design is hilariously shit.

 

[taxalot]

It's not coming out.

 

[Jacob]

Thanks for ruining my hope.

 

[Burning Bridges]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga

 

[Makabb]

Amiga had custom hardware made by tech wizards of the 80's.

I highly doubt that they would be able to produce something like this today that would be 2-3 generations above ps5/xbox 2.
Most likely it will be just a customized high end pc with limited functionality of a console.

 

[FeelTheRads]

with limited functionality of a console

If you look at the comments for those tweets, this is what people actually want. Exclusives, "walled gardens" and everything that a normal person with a brain should be against are what the consoletards want.

 

[Siveon]

Was expecting this to focus on racing peripherals. Expand to flight sims with joystick, etc.

Yeah I thought this be the equivalent of those plug and plays but with a well made wheel/pedal and some high quality racing games inside. That'd be neat for racing fanatics wouldn't it?

 

[Zarniwoop]

If you look at the comments for those tweets, this is what people actually want. Exclusives, "walled gardens" and everything that a normal person with a brain should be against are what the consoletards want.

Normal people don't have brians anymore. Console/Appletards are the norm now.

 

[LESS T_T]

More mad design concepts: