That title is not a typo or anything. This new console, officially titled the OTON X, uses a custom AI in order to build new games entirely on its own. If you're interested at all, or want the full story before reading on, here is the link to the Kickstarter page.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/qquip/oton-x-the-first-artificial-intelligent-game-conso
The concept for the console is simple, instead of buying new games and shelling out hundreds of dollars, this new console creates its own games, and game levels, from scratch without any input from the user. Any game it creates can be saved or deleted and costs nothing beyond the price of the console itself. The creators as of now claim to have spent the past 3 years working to create this new indie console as an alternative to mainstream consoles. The OTON runs off of a custom Linux operating system, opposed to an android sysem as other indie consoles have done. The company hopes to one day be a major console developer that can compete with the big 3.
So far here are all the detals I could uncover on this new console:
- $279 price tag, although actual Kickstarter tiers only include the console starting at the $300 tier and is listed as an "EARLYBIRD" tier
- can create new games and new game levels instantly, at any time, for free. can even create games based off of user preferences.
- claims to have "unlimited storage", will actually sport a 128 GB harddrive and use cloud storage that the devs promise will be unlimited
- currently only creates platformers, but they ope to expand that once more funding is available to them, including 3D game engines
- the specs the ylisted are a bit sketchy, but from hat I can tell, it has a Quad core CPU, and 8 GB of RAM. not much but i cant bother to decode the mess of specs they mashed together
- 1st party games complete with online leaderboards
- the console will play in 4K
now lets be honest here, I dont know what to think of this thing, but it does interest me. its a unique concept that has never been done on this scale. that being said, i see this thing being doomed to the same fate as all the android consoles before it. i certainly dont see it being one of the big 3. but i want to know what some of you guys think about it. are you yay or nay on this new console idea?
