Xbox's Next Competitor Could Be An 'NFT Games Console', Apparently

Do we get a free Intellivison Amico with it?

No, No it will not be.

Hopefully it comes out and can establish itself. Competition is always welcome. It would really need 3rd party support and that is unlikely unless they see it as sustainable.

NFT games is actually an interesting idea. It may unlock a "used" digital market where you can resell digital games after completing them.

8K, 120Hz, ray tracing, and haptic feedback? Those aren't realistic goals for a new console manufacturer, they're empty promises meant to attract investor money.

Shame it has anything to do with NFTs. I won't give such schemes, my money.

Likely to be vapourware methinks.

I doubt the people making this even know what an "NFT console" is.

I want this to come out, just to fail. Call me Tom petty.

The pad alone is hideous. Who the hell wants an NFT’s let alone an NFT console.

This is a scam within a scam.

Even Elon Musk, Prince Scam himself, has criticised the technical foundation this is seemingly based on.

The company, Polium, doesn't have much of a footprint. Can't find much info on them. And what I can find seems to hint at them being 1-10 person strong. And they want to produce a console that has features that multibillion dollar companies are struggle with?

Yall thought Amazon would be the next party to enter the gaming fold. Nope its NFT and they bringing all three major platforms

That's the best idea since a children's beverage made entirely of brussel sprout juice!

This has to be a joke right 🤷🏻. Nft's are just a ponzie scheme. This whole console screams of promising the world for investment and then poof that money will disappear.

Look at that controller!! My days it is sooo bad. Every nft concept in games thus far has died a death. Hope this burns with fire also.

People are so clueless about NFTs and hate on them cause they don't know what they're talking about. Do you have any collectables? Baseball cards or maybe action figures or something? That's simply what these are, in digital, and tradable format on a block chain. In the video game world though, they can have stats, and actually be used in game. Its REALLY not that big of a deal.

The button in the middle has an icon which to my eye looks a lot like the GameCube logo https://www.unilad.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Nintendo_GameCube_logo.png

NFTs could be interesting in a console, my first thought was for used digital game sales/trading. Although this could be achieved without NFTs by simply reallocating a software licence. More likely NFTs will simply be a way to attribute value to an ingame piece of tat.

I actively hate that controller.

Did they tweak the gamecube logo?

Wow, sounds truly awful!

@Arcnail Everybody can see NFTs for what they are and nobody wants it, there’s a reason why the majority are against it. It’s a scam and it’s just pure greed, it does not benefit the industry and it’s consumers. Anyway if this ‘Polium One’ ever did come out, it will be DOA.

The future is now!

NFTs are scam adjacent at best, and the clone console vibes and claims of 8K only make this sketchier. When less suspicious micro consoles failed to enter mass production or turned out bad you'd have to be very ignorant to invest in this. Someone's gonna take the money and run.

A wallet button!? Are they for real!? Yeah no thanks. 🤣

@Arcnail Yeah, people do 100% understand what NFTs are, and that's why they hate them. You are just dismissing people hating them to rationalise away their hate in your favour, rather than accept they hate them because they understand.

"Do you have any collectables? Baseball cards or maybe action figures or something? That's simply what these are, in digital, and tradable format on a block chain"

Collectables, like baseball cards have value because they have real scarcity. They are physical objects that could only be made in so many quantities, and over time, that quantity can only decrease. What you are talking about is a digital, and thus endlessly, freely replicable, item and does not have that same scarcity.

Even worse, baseball cards aren't tied to crypto. Their value is within their own existence. The entire value of the dollar could collapse, but that card remains. You could trade it with anything. NFTs are tied to currencies that aren't backed by anything. If the blockchain or cryptos fall, so does those NFTs. You could lose everything in an instant, and people have been, and the performance of crypto for 2022 shouldn't make you more confident in the currencies.

@Bruvas So, everyone with a Google account, then?

@Richnj Sauce

@Agent_P Source for what?, the lack of information on the company?, or the fact that baseball cards are physical items and NFTs are digital?

It somehow seems fitting they stole a Gamecube logo and tweaked it slightly from a G to a P. Anything that includes NFT is nothing but a scam and I'll give up gaming before giving any of these environment-destroying schemes my money.

@Bruvas Don't worry, it will be one of a kind, because I'll make it myself.