Is STEAMBOX a mistake?

[Soleron]

dahuman said:

Soleron said:

dahuman said:

They should throw it on kickstarter and see what happens, prolly will go like 1000% over lol.

Kickstarter has never raised anything close to the budget of an actual game, never mind a hardware project.

3D printers are the shit bro!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/formlabs/form-1-an-affordable-professional-3d-printer?ref=live

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/printrbot/printrbot-your-first-3d-printer?ref=category

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1682938109/robo-3d-printer?ref=live

 

Other cool stuff!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1351910088/3doodler-the-worlds-first-3d-printing-pen?ref=live

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2037429657/almond-80211ac-touchscreen-wifi-router-smart-home?play=1&ref=search (totally went for this one, want my shinny new toy later in the year shipped to me!)

 

And if not for kickstarter, we wouldn't have the next longest journey, which I pledged $75 for!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/redthread/dreamfall-chapters-the-longest-journey?ref=category

And we wouldn't have this Double Fine game!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doublefine/double-fine-adventure?ref=category

or these cool things!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/659943965/planetary-annihilation-a-next-generation-rts?ref=category

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns?ref=category

 

Then we have crazy shit like Ouya, which I'll never have but damn they raised a lot of money!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ouya/ouya-a-new-kind-of-video-game-console?ref=category

 

I'm not saying it hasn't raised money. I'm saying that modern game budgets are very much higher than the $1-4m a Kickstarter can raise, and that the games you see are either cutting corners (being a 90s isometric RPG definitely helps), have alternative sources of funding (such as post-release sales or VC funding) in which case Kickstarter is more of a publicity tool or capital investment test case.

A Valve hardware project will be $50m easily. Which itself is far cheaper than say a PS4, but still very much out of reach of a Kickstarter.

Ouya's a plastic box with a prebuilt ARM SoC. Even then I very much doubt the thing can be done on $8m alone. They are expecting post release sales of a few times that I'm sure.