Speaking as the head of the project, the time for polite lip service and apologizing for other peoples failed projects passed long ago.
No, no it hasn't. As a business man, your #1 goal should be to put your personal opinions aside, and do what is best for your team and company. Every company, even the 128 year old Nintendo, worries about PR. You've not even got a product to market, getting arrogant and alienating your potential user base just hurts sales.
You aren't just a forum member now, you are freaking representative of a product you are hoping to sell to the very users of this forum. Act like it.
To anyone following this project, the Coleco Chameleon, Retron 5, RetroFreak et all very clearly poisoned the well for classic game console projects and people who play them. They screwed a lot of things up and a lot of people over. But, that doesn't mean that every project is as they were. For people who got burned in some form, we've been working tirelessly to not fall prey to the same issues.
The video that was posted in the group earlier was posted on our website to show that we do have a hardware team and that we are still actively developing the project, despite some speculation that it had stalled. More demonstrations indicative of this should be expected very soon. We are serious about making something that is not only "not a failure" but something that is actually great and will bring everyone a significant amount of enjoyment for years to come.
We're not asking you to take our word for it at this point, instead we want to show the hard work we've put in by showing this product very soon with high quality demonstrations. We also promise we won't ask you for a dime until the console is ready, fully vetted, and for sale. Anyone who is interested in following us or keeping up to date on information can visit
www.polymega.com for more information. You can also follow us on Twitter (@polymegahq) and Facebook (@playPOLYMEGA).
Thank you, from Team POLYMEGA
