The testers should really be comparing performance metrics with many of the AAA and popular titles across at least several previous generations of drivers. So I really don't know what sort of testing their doing, do they play games and run benchmarks even?

Meanwhile AMD still struggles getting good fps in many of these games, Deus Ex being one of the big offenders, makes the VEGA cards look REAL bad!

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Well its never really a finished project, they could spend the next year messing with fixing DX11 and it still wouldn't be ready.

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Yeah its going to take some talented Linux developers to make the hardware perform good for more modern games under Linux. I do hope its not released with a OLD kernel linux spin as that would being extremely telling, really it would need kernel 4.15 as bare minimal, 4.16 should be out by the time we see the kickstarter.

They will need to religiously keep the kernel and drivers up to date to maximize the effectiveness of the AMD hardware! if not then it means they are not serious about this console....

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Quoting: GuestI guess they are going to have to come out with some 'current' titles that only require one button and one analogue stick.
Looks pretty though.

Like I said, I'd suspect this controller is only for their retro game library, just look at the game the chap is playing in the screenshot. My guess is they expect people to plug in their fav controller or K/M

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1) Crowdfunding is a way to test market interest and get opinion about features, I doubt Atari name would be allowed without some company support.
2) My guess is they will just optimize some sort of interface to access these web features, very much doubt it will be a ALL IN ONE browser because we all know the big boys don't like competing with each other.
3) My guess its for just retro OLD games that didn't require more then 1 button? I feel that's a missed opportunity to support games that had 6 action buttons. Then again it would be cumbersome, so perhaps just plugandplay controller support is good enough.

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Personally I aren't worried about it being super cheap. There are already LOADS of cheap capable mini consoles around that have quite decent specs and can play all the emulators.

While I like retro games I certainly don't see it being a unique feature these days, perhaps they can bundle it better? but at the end of the day I would be happy if they built a console that could play half-life2 / portal2 at 4k with reasonable FPS... But we know AMD and Valve titles don't really mix well with performance atm.

Also where are all the other many buttons for the controller? or is it just for retro games only (probably)? If so then its nice design but will be limited to just Atari 2600 games etc...

For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8hqNxPHeuE [External Link]

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I have yet to see any rich story in planet nomads, it looks just like base building and exploring which would be many times easier and fun with others.

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Yeah they are launching a kickstarter in feburary and hopefully it has a Linux goal or something.

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I misspoke, its called pantropy https://playpantropy.com [External Link]

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I hear you need to do all sorts of messing around to such as delete config files or something like standing on your head, then it works ok under Linux. I will probably wait until they implement Vulkan before revisiting this title, they say that is going to happen but really, its anybodies guess at this point.

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