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  • I'm defiantly going to buy this, and one for all my friends. Heck, $10 for the thing itself I could buy 6 of these instead of COD.

  • To all those saying that this is satire, He's serious. Heck, he even created a site for this.

    the-nd.com/

  • Seems like a metajoke about iProducts. Probably something featured in-game (which I guess is coming out this decade?).

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  • @RecollectMusic yeah, and he has a whole site, forums, pledged games, donations for a satire. Real funny, even an SDK.

  • How ugly and piccolo dick.

  • @RadioJones64

    I just got my daily dose.

  • Can you guys just give Bob a break? He is a hard working developer, and is just trying to get his ideas out. He has good ideas, but you just shun anything that you aren't familiar with. Bob isn't playing some joke, he is serious about what he is doing. If anything, you guys should give him a chance.

    And please, don't say he doesn't know about the meaning of 16-bit. By saying that, it implies that you know everything about game developing, and that your a douche.

    So come on, give him a chance

  • @TheCozmicist he's been yammering about his game and now his game platform for years and years, with nothing to show for it but a mediocre demo and some odd videos

    some of his ideas are good, yes, but plenty of similarly good ideas can be found in products that are actually available for purchase

    Bob is a marketer and a minor celebrity first, and a game developer second or never

  • Sorry to be a killjoy but have you considered the fact that the Chinese have already thought of this? Ever heard of the Dingoo? Sure, it's more expensive, but it can do more as well. I don't think people would honestly buy an open sourced brick to play homebrew Pong and Sudoku knockoffs either when their cellphones are fully capable (in more ways than one) of doing this. And I most certainly agree with @TMP3z. You have no idea what 16 bit means.

  • MURICA!

    

  • price has doubled

  • @netscapepizza You mean from 20 to 40 or from 10 to 20? For the former, haven't heard it. For the latter, the $20 version will supposedly come preloaded with Bob's Game (which looks like it's worth $15 - $20 by itself, so a good deal). Of course, the whole thing probably won't happen anyway because Robert Pelloni is a madman.

  • Sounds like Patrick Bateman was the narrator

  • "we can sell you products for more than their true value"

    wtf man

  • @phantom2722 Pretty sure he's sarcastically speaking for the competition there

  • This is just my opinion, but...

    Even if he is trolling he is making a huge effort,

    and he made a great effort while making "bob's game",

    more than we will ever make, plus,

    he inspired me to be a videogame developer in the future.

    This is just my opinion.

  • @Axkarth Same here.

  • Jesus Christ. Did anyone else go to the official site and check out the shit games that are being developed? A Doom game that has different enemies, a side-scrolling Minescraft, and shitty action RPG with graphics that make Runescape look amazing, and games that steal sprites from other games such as Mega Man.

    I hope you get sued up the asshole, Bobby.

  • Awesome. When will this be out?

  • Bob, you're a huge pile of shit. Maybe your game was good. Maybe you didn't deserve to get rejected from Nintendo. But your mass trolling and shitful failings really made your likeability go down, rock-bottom. You suck.

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  • This will be another pandora. In that the pandora was a promising idea, but is sadly failing hard

  • Nice to see you faggots bashing a $20 indie handheld for no determinable reason. Good luck Bob, but you should really seek out some more experienced publishers.

  • haha i read your website, saw your game, and watched this. your trying so hard but failing in every aspect. sorry man

  • is this real. please market me

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  • Nice to see that the haters still needed to post their opinions here. But then again this IS Youtube after all. Good luck Robert,you crazy bastard.

  • Really, does anyone give a shit about "Bobs game" anymore? The game he as been making for what, 8 years now? But who is counting...

  • You suck.

  • Guys, a Chinese company has an Android 2.3 phone with a 1GHz processor and a capacitive touchscreen for only €100!

    Notice how those specs are pretty much infinity higher than the nD's.

  • One word: Fake

  • Oh come on. This should rather come with Boobs game.

  • I would buy one only to play Bob's Game.

  • Bob, why are you completely incapable of understanding what 16-bit means? Do you mean color depth? CPU/GPU integer range? None of these things have anything to do with 2D games, whatsoever.

  • neeeed nd nowwwww

  • ...oh okay I read the homepage more carefully. the answer to my questions is that all this idealistic stuff is just marketing jabber and I was mistaken to take it so seriously

    this'd just be one more console

    and like any console it'd support at least a few excellent games

    thumbs up to that I guess, but again, most of the real work is happening elsewhere

    no we don't need PS3-level graphics

    but we SORELY need BETTER-than-PS3-level AI, and other sorts of dynamism

    and we won't get them on a $6 chip

  • cool, but...

    where is the joke here, or the target of this criticism, or whatever it is

    who even cares about not being able to develop for the DS

    frickin Tarn Adams man, his game is out and it is free and he makes a living off it anyhow, all sans DS, trolling, or controversy

    why would indie developers need to target a portable device

    those who care about advancing the art need fast processors, not portable hardware

    fast processors are in desktop machines

    and developing for those

    is already free

  • @barrettheadshot Moore's law only applies to integrated circuits. The price of the display, battery, plastic, etc will not drop quite so fast (if at all).

  • Scam from a no-talent developer. Somebody let me know when people who know what they are doing make an open source indie platform.

    Oh, wait, I'm typing on it.

  • This is dumb peace.

  • @TheNickTheM

    You are dumb, that's a COMMA moron, peace!

    Why peace?

    Why not say what you mean instead of acting urban?

    Try this....

    "This is dumb."

    or

    "My opinion is similar to a butthole - in that, everyone has one."

    Alright, I'm finished. Lost my motiva

  • @MatskatMusic

    I think you are upset, I believe you should go outside, and take a stroll. If you do not like taking strolls, perhaps walk down to your local hobby store, and grab at something that interests you (I recommend drawing, personally).If you do not feel like going outside, perhaps meditate, or hang out with your family.

  • everyone is retarded for trolling this

    Indie developers need a good platform to try on and I believe this is friendlier to indie developers than steam

    Imagine a world with no indie devs, then games wouldn't change and wed have the same game developers running the industry since 1972

    Imagine if you couldn't upload to YouTube without paying a fee, its the same thing

  • @Dude45Productions

    Righto, but when the facts about this product don't add up, why would we invest in something so risky? I mean, please, the hardware's price fell due to the rise of smart phones, yea, umm, i doubt an IC's price would just fall. The Screen alone should make the price of the device pretty fucking high. Either the makers of this are giving us a device that would generate negative profit, or they are scamming. Seriously, unless we get proof, there shall be high doubts.

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • "And through the power of marketing we could harnes your blah blah blah"

    What the fuck are you rambling about?

    This shit isn't going to sell, ever.

    The marketplace is the artists enemy, always and forever.

  • I would believe it if it didn't look like a highschool computer graphics class final project.

  • who's bob

  • After about 3 years of trolling the internet how do you expect anyone to believe you?

  • Kinda confused here. Is it 10 or 20 bucks?

  • This is Awesome. I have been waiting to see someone start an open gaming system. I hope they succeed and make a gaming consoles. :)

  • @Boomedan it isn't just me, it's a team of highly acclaimed indie devs. i'm the only one who doesn't give a crap about being controversial and so i'm the one taking the risk.

  • @robertpelloni what fucking controversy? 

  • @robertpelloni Who? Bob?

  • @robertpelloni

    right, a team of highly acclaimed indie devs. maybe that'd be more believable if you werent known for being a dramamongering liar whos produced nothing but vaporware.

    you cant even produce these without the capital to do so and you're a total failure to publishing your other products.

  • Am I being trolled right now?

  • @MrHav1k nope.

  • i BELIEVE.

  • This is either come kind of social experiment about people only reading the words in the video and not listening to what they're saying at 0:55 or I'm just misunderstanding the meaning of what he's saying.

  • @HaloEndurance Was thinking the same thing myself.

  • @HaloEndurance Haha "we can harness your imagination, to sell you products for more than their true value, because you'll believe they do more than they actually do."

    Fucking genius trick. Apple should totally do this.

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  • how much and what type of memory?

    SD cards or integrated nand?

    at that price I'm guessing SD.

  • i will buy one, let me know more info when you get it

  • I want one! Put couple emulators on it and that's it! :)

  • This is the nD. Then they will bring out nD Extreme with a Dual Core processor which will be able to run minecraft :D...hopefully

  • Oh lord, not this again! You're going to hype it up and then say it never existed and it was a social experiment all along, aren't you?

  • Open source software, linux and indie game development make their first steps in market.

  • everyone who's not poor has an ipod touch or iphone/android

    they are better

  • @ohexp1oitable

    Enjoy your >no buttons

  • Is this real?

  • It looks like a Dingoo with the corners airbrushed off and candy glued to the right side.

  • I AM TOTALLY BUYING ONE OF THESE.... NOW!!!!! WHERE CAN I GET ONE... WHERE?????

  • This looks interesting. You should focus more on hardware and advertisement instead of software development.

  • truth be told i think that the nd icon and icons on your website look ugly. i could make better icons than that.

  • i wont believ it until i see it

  • soooo... how powerful is this thing. what type of games can be expected in terms of graphics? ill definitely go through the efforts of buying online if even a few indie developers get behind this.

  • @gingerkid963 undecided on the grpahics but its a 400mhz with 16mb(maybe 32) of RAM and 2gb built in storage.

  • This guy needs to stop trolling

  • I'm starting an MP3 player for this, could I get one of these prototypes to test out the battery time and such?

    also, will we be able to control the cpu clock?

  • ill get it if it has a good community making games:D

  • We'll sell you products at more than their cost; because you're a fucking tool.

  • Give up already Bob. You became what you hated long ago by not releasing your game as free DS homebrew. Oh the irony of calling out Nintendo as being a corporate fat cat, only interested in profits.

    Also loving the constant delays to the reveal of a working prototype.

  • Deficis (Latin)

  • Photos, please?

  • If it is real, then I will buy it on release day. :-)

  • I remember the GPX2

    Good luck

  • I will definitely be keeping my eye on this

  • Show us a video of the prototypes please.

  • You are the most narcissistic person I have ever seen.

    Except for maybe Chris-Chan...

  • You should make different levels of ND's

    A cheap one for $10

    A better one for $20

    one with wifi in it and other stuff for $30 or $40

    Thumb

  • bobs game is a game about a game called bobs game

  • you guys should ask Techcrunch to write a fair review on your product

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  • as much as ive never showed any interest in bobs game and the like I like the idea of this. it would be cool to see this become something more than a handheld for emulators.

  • Looks terrible. With out moderation of the games released, it will just be a bunch of s***.

  • I think someone should re-think/re-make the look of it.

  • It would be really ironic if no store agreed to sell this system.

  • I just loved the copied patented Nintendo d-pad.

  • The nD's already dropped hasn't it? Or what was it that I just flushed down the toilet?

  • why do you focus so much on indie?

    why dont you just let people make GAMES for it, not shitty indie games

  • as cool as this sounds, you'd probably have a lot more support if you didn't associate it with bob's game, which instantly makes people think of you as a raving lunatic

  • Will it blend?

  • >Bob's Game

    Here we go again.avi

    Fucking hipsters will eat this shit up, though. Bob, are you mad that Cave Story, a freeware game will get a 3D remake on the 3DS while your hipster piece of shit will never see the light of day due to your own autism and greed?

  • JUST MAKE PC INDIE GAMES JESUS CHRIST. IF YOU PRICE IT AT $2 -SOMEONE- WILL BUY THEM.

  • "It's everything you'd expect from a hand held console..." Next he said "without the gimmicks" but he meant "that's 10 years old."

  • what a joke, this will never see the light of day. If it does, it will be a laughingstock, if anyone bothers to even take notice

    Try a different industry, Bob, like janitorial work. You seem to like wading in shit anyway.

  • Fuck you, the fact that Nintendo rejected your shitty game makes you so butthurt that you want to create a handheld just to shove them some shit in the face. Got news for you, boy, NGP and 3DS will be out there ruling the streets by the time you make your pretentious hipster handheld.

  • I would also need to see patents and proof that the Nintendo D-pad patent is indeed expired. If you could show me some proof that this would generate a return, a legal return, I would be interested in an investment of anywhere from 5-7k$

  • I would be interested in investing but I would have to see a fully working prototype and the d-pad would have to be changed because I believe it is trademarked by Nintendo.

  • Wow, 20 dollars for a piece of shit. Sounds about right.

  • i do believe you will be sued or served an injunction for the illegal Nintendo d-pad.

  • ...yet other systems designed for open development struggle to be even built for a hundred bucks or more.

    Dude, if you want people to play Bob's Game, make it for iPhone or able to run on a widely emulated system.

  • Please let this be real :3

  • I work in an electronics plant and I'm kind of curious how you expect to get the cost of manufacturing so low.

    Wait...

    Nevermind, China probably.

  • guys this isnt real, if it was he wouldn't have made that stupid condescending remark at the end

  • I'll buy it first. Please give me information!

  • come on.. this better not be fake man, or any respect i had for you is gone

  • YES!!

  • Possibly want.

  • Not a fan of the face button layout (and are those Start Select buttons on the bottom or are they missing?), but if it gets a decent supply of games I'll probably buy one.

  • So, if the prices for those parts have dropped exponentially, how come the price of the console has doubled since the last commercial?

  • @PigSpeakers Eh, this seems like they're at a later stage, so they found out about more costs. I bet they do get SOME money, but this looks pretty legit.

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  • Notice he didn't even bother to line up the buttons with the board in the render.

  • Show a working prototype. Your low quality renders don't exactly instill people with confidence, considering the CADs would be more detailed, if this wasn't a giant scam dreampt up by a crazy person.

  • but will it blend

    seriously this thing looks amazing

  • Aw you got rid of the awesome voice. ...Damnit, I want one.

  • @milun2 Also, if, and I say IF this is real, you got yourself an interested (still learning) game developer.

  • This is fucking hilarious.

  • OH GOD KILL ME IT HURTS TO LIVE

    that what your console is saying

  • Will never come like Bobs Game. Only BLABLABLA... he needs the publicity . nothing more. idiot !

  • Pretty funny joke with the Paypal number dawg.

    You got a small following for reasons I can't even begin to comprehend, but they aren't THAT retarded

  • this is from the same guy that 6 year's ago sayed that he was making a RPG named Bob's Game and protested for 100 days agains Nintendo to have the sdk. So please, while i don't no if this is a fake just to take money (but i think it is), don't believe in ANYTHING that is selled without any marketing media behind.

  • Advertising feature: buttons

  • This has to be a joke just like Bob's Game, it seriously has!

  • what the fuck is up with the paypal donate button asking for $1,000,000,000,000.00

  • DS lite and a r4 card is alot better than having a bunch of shitty indie games that couldnt get into app store

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  • Looks better than 3DS...but then again...3Ds is shit

  • High Resolution? Powerful?

    Please, show us a tech demo.. I want to see how good the graphics is .

  • suck my bob, pelloni

  • If this is real, I am so stoked. 20 bucks to be able to carry around my own games, hell yeah! This had better be real.

  • "power of marketing" hahaha

  • I like how the system's gimmick is that it doesn't have gimmick.

  • @Jeshikun No, the gimmick is that its cheap

  • You claim to have prototypes...can you please put up a video showing a working prototype unit?

  • I am now excited, i only hope it will become big. also how will the store work? will it be such as the devs of the game choose its price? including the price of FREE!

  • Oh man, I've been checking the site the last few days. Was pretty excited to hear that you're still alive

  • This is awesome!

  • Bob, you should get out of the games business and go into politics. Spin is clearly your true forte.

  • i fell in love again

  • I need one. o_o I develop indie games, and it would be sweet if I could get my newest game ported to this.

  • loving the idea !

  • I REALLY, REALLY like this idea. What could we accomplish if we didn't have to spend years generating art or 3D? I am still not over SNES-era games, I await this with baited breath!

  • It's Pelloni, trolling again.

  • smexy!

  • Whoa! It looks like an SNES!

  • Do you actually have prototypes yet or are you still in the concept stages?

  • @00sturm we have a couple working prototypes. development boards are being prepared and will be made available.

  • @robertpelloni I really want this! When do you expect to go from prototypes to production?

  • When this is no hoax, it will be my top fav. handheld.

    Think of all the indies people will make for this(thanks to the open sourcecode):

    metroid remakes/ports, classic fighting game ports, . . .

    Pure awesomness!

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  • i dont know if this is a joke, but i wish it wasnt

  • @trofdugweed it's not a joke! :)

  • @robertpelloni Bobs Game was not a joke, too ? yes? you are a liar. you never released the game, playes with the community, fakes storys asf.

  • @robertpelloni Show us some proof then.