how can I explain how bad this concept is.
I really can't describe the hate I have for this AI game-console concept.
as I watched the youtube video where they explained how the game console in the Kickstarter worked, came I to the conclusion that it really didn't fit into our universe. can somebody call Thanos, he forgot to erase the OTON X concept out-of-existence.
the start of a bad idea.
The company named EnGeniux was unsuccessfully on funding the project on the 24 of September in 2016
and was backed by 35 backers. the amount that was raised by Derrick Samuels was 7,588 USD
I feel that he wanted to make something really awesome but it didn't work out. there may be more kick starters that did horrendously or maybe even worse but this really caught me by the balls even to write about it makes it hard.
I have so many reasons to hate this console but I'm not gonna bash on this unfinished product.
because I do feel that it could be great if Samuel dumped the idea of an AI game console and made a more standard type console, would it be much, much better.
what made me hate this console from the start?
the concept! Samuel claims that the OTON can create games by itself with little to no human input. this is false as game developers would need to learn the AI to make whole games as the human as the input, doesn't that count as a human input or even if it's just a little bit?
and they talk about how they can use assets from the cloud to let users Co-design the game or levels with parameters.
AI can't make good storytelling and distinctive well thought games like humans, without human intellect and creativity.
here in an article, about AI's lacking intellect. it's a long ride before AI will be as smart as humans.
COOL idea, but a bad concept.
the concept does not fit within reality, its already hard to develop a game a Good triple AAA game to compete with other companies and they want to learn an AI to make whole games by itself? even if it is possible it takes time!
The gimmick.
the console is not really an intelligent game console, because you still would need to learn the AI to able to make the levels in the game distinctively without lacking diversity and creativity in gameplay and storytelling in every level and OTON Title's to let the AI make good levels by itself, with different parameters that the user wants should the gimmick not last a day against Nintendo or Sony or Microsoft.
on youtube is there an AI that can make games named Angelina, it took 7 years to develop Angelina!!!! how are they gonna create good games without human interaction or even a little to develop games. it will take even more human power to save time and it will cost even more money to make the games to compete.
there were so many questions that I and many others wanted to ask him and the Co-designers how this would work but sadly did they not reach their goals to get the questions answered.
It's not that Bad if you look at it differently but what is the OTON X Console made of? it consists of a quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor with similar to graphics of the Ouya game console and the Google Nexus 7 tablet.
the game controller looks close to A chinese Xbox 360 controller and A Nintendo pro controller and the design of the console itself is okay but not that great.
I give them a 5.4 for weak answers and no working product and bad console design.
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