>A lot of people here seem to be surprised that people would spend $200 on a niche gaming console when you could instead get an emulation machine or "real" handheld.
A good explanation from John Siracusa:
>To a certain class of person, this makes no sense.
>This product is a celebration. It's all custom hardware, every single part, and they wrote their own operating system. Why would you do that? Why is this not running Linux or a Raspberry Pi or something sensible? Because the company is ridiculous, the people are insane, and this is an amazing thing that should not exist but does.
A good explanation from John Siracusa:
>To a certain class of person, this makes no sense.
>This product is a celebration. It's all custom hardware, every single part, and they wrote their own operating system. Why would you do that? Why is this not running Linux or a Raspberry Pi or something sensible? Because the company is ridiculous, the people are insane, and this is an amazing thing that should not exist but does.
https://overcast.fm/+R7DX2ydgY/1:25:44
Link to longer discussion: https://overcast.fm/+R7DX2ydgY/1:17:40