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HoloDust 7 hours ago
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Cerebralbore101 said:
HoloDust said:

Retroid Pocket 6 with 12GB of RAM and 128GB of storage currently goes for $279. Strip it down to TV box and put DVD player into it, and for the same (or less) money you have something that is slightly more powerful than PS4, while having fairly modern hardware features.

I'm not envisioning anyone actually doing something like this, since there would be no market for such device without 1st party games, but it's nice thought experiment.

Yeah, something with Gen 6 or Gen 7 power specs or even Switch 1 power specs that had physical indie games and physical AA games would do so friggin well. And it would cost something like $200-$300. 

Well, Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 inside Pocket 6 would give devs around 8th gen specs, in that price bracket, so... ;)

But as I said, while this is completely doable from hardware POV, I'm not seeing it being successful if it doesn't have proper 1st party software to propel it initially, making it actually interesting for 3rd parties to release ports of their games on DVDs for it.