Intellivision Amico Home Sales Update: Are They Even Trying? or How To Increase Game Sales
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Remember when Tommy said that he would crush Atari, with the Amico. 😂
That's so funny knowing Atari got 3 other systems out and amico still not out
Thanks for the update, I miss the days when they took advantage of the free marketing of UA-camrs. So this is how it ends with a whimper not a scream. Well most of the base hardcore fans were collectors of physical games. Cornhole yikes. What happened to the claims that all of these games were tested, (including with a phone as a controller) and EVERYONE loved it!!!? Where did all the cheerleaders go? I saw DJC went to videogames live this week, I guess a lot of the hardcore fans want their Tommy friendship more than playing their Amico games with family. Yep make them ad supported, perfect example of how this is smells fishy. Great video as always nsg
They are all on the Amico Discord. It's thriving with players and beta testers loving it. Yes the games were tested. Beta testing going on now is just fine tuning it to work on all the different devices. Like Amazon, Shield TV and Smart TV's.
@@LelandReviewyou are so adorable. Never change, buddy!
"Amico isn't selling you! None of this will matter when the real marketing starts! The REAL audience hasn't heard of Amico yet! They're doing a reset and Amico is in an enviable position! You haters will never understand!"
PuzZLeR = A/V Sales Engineer + RAB’s replacement
Long paragraphs explaining why you're wrong. He swears he's gonna buy intellivision and such.
LoL he's been saying it and saying it.
@@F1JVTommy, John, Relic, and about 8 other guys that I don't care to remember, and now RAB, and the repeats. You are going around in circles about me.
I wonder if DJC feels "silly" yet...
LOL Nope
You know who DJC reminds me of? Johnny Turbo!
@@SomeOrangeCat for me, Guy Fieri 🔥🏁🍔
@@thweetiebird Except DJC goes for what's in the dumpster behind the restaurant.
@@SomeOrangeCat siphoning sauce
The only reason amico home exists is to limit their liability by making people with pre orders forfeit the 100 dollar deposit.
Well releasing the pack ins at $15 a pop would negate $90. I would not be surprised if Back Talk comes out at $25 to get that last $10.
Actually Amico Home exists because of the chip shortage that is still ongoing. It even delayed the Switch 2. And im glad. The Amico Home app is better then the original console idea.
@@LelandReview I'm so sorry you actually believe that, I played them both. The console was far superior amico home is a janky mess.. nobody cares about amico home
@@LelandReview The chip shortage is over and has been over for sometime. But please continue making excuses 😂
@@LelandReview
1. The chip shortage ended in 2022 and the specific 6502 chips that Intellivision wanted are readily available from multiple distributors including mouser which can ship 1000 chips right away as long as you have enough money.
2. The Switch 2 has not been delayed at all let alone because of a chip shortage. Nintendo is in no rush to release the Switch 2 since the Switch is still selling well.
3. Intellivision has admitted that the reason the Amico hasn't been released yet is because they've run out of money. In fact, they've said that Amico Home was supposed to fund the development of the console and considering how bad Amico Home sales have been, it doesn't look like the console's getting funded any time soon.
4. You have not played the Amico console and therefore have no idea if it's better than Amico Home.
Alvarado made a pretty stunning admission! The Amico Reddit dug up a very recent post from him where he admits the slate of games is nowhere near as complete as they said it was four years ago, and that they don't have the people or money to finish promised launch titles like Night Stalker. Crazy how a "chip shortage" is stopping them from doing stuff that doesn't involve chips. Also, the "roadmap" was updated again, with upcoming games being pushed back to later in the year than they were supposed to come out. But hey, at least we might be getting a look what is sure to be a lame party game called "Back Talk Party" a port of an Android-native game from 2012! That's just as good as an overpriced port of Rigid Force Redux, right?
True. And they don't even have the skill-set to do a port.
@@OysterSanchez Alvarado has one skillset: Looking like he isn't allowed within 500 yards of a school.
My favorite addendum to the road map: Avacado might be able to release an extra Amico launch game this year. This depends on which one they can afford to complete the development of. Yes. You read that right. These games that were supposed to be absolutely 100% complete, are still unfinished. These aren't big AAA titles, that require hundreds of developers working on them. Wonder what the excuse for this will be.
I totally agree that the top Amico supporters would be streaming Cornhole. I guess that they are no longer excited for these games.
Maybe they finally see the writing on the wall?
Given how many people are beta testing a lot of people are streaming Cornhole already. Not sure where you guys searched for it. UA-cam has a bunch.
Regarding the point 4 it's because they know the reviews are going to be mostly negative. Even Alvarado and Adam knows that Amico Home sucks, but they're still trying to save the impossible.
Actually the games are still in Beta testing phase to get it working on all the different devices. It's normal not to send it for reviews when its not fully working yet.
Yup! It's absolutely a stalling tactic.
@@SomeOrangeCatYa stalling if you mean people playing the games on the new devices and loving it. lol. I bet other game console makers will take this approach. SEGA Home on Nvidia Shield with a new SEGA controller would sell amazing. Intellivision is paving the way for a new industry trend.
Amico really needs to call it quits. This dead horse is being beaten so much that the corpse has become unrecognizable. This feels like Ouya only there's no console and they're preying on retro gamers, mainly Intellivision fans.
@@darthkai8242 For what it was, the Ouya was OK. The comparisons seemed lazy and ignorant to me. It was a decent companion system to the major consoles, with an interesting and varied selection of titles, many of which were cheap or even free in some cases. All the games I have for the Ouya still work (reports say they don’t anymore, not true) plus apps can be side loaded, so it still remains a functional system today.
You’re talking potentially thousands of hours of use vs a handful of hours at most. No comparison at all really.
Yes, the Chameleon is a much better shout, both involved shady people with shady marketing.
@@darthkai8242 At least with the Ouya, you could do something with it once official support had been dropped. You can root them and make neat little emulation boxes out of them. The Amico is just an overcomplicated way to play shovelware, with zero aftermarket value.
@@darthkai8242 Yeah, where Ouya was just an android mini-pc with a gamepad-centric interface. Simple to adapt into something more useful.
Ya a lot of people saying Intellivision is finished or bankrupt for years. That was all just none sense spread by UA-camrs making click bait. The company is doing better then ever. Critics can't make up their minds. First they hated the footbath look. And when that changes to normal devices they still complain, lol.
*In old time news voice*
This just in folks! Local company Relic-Mr Me vision fails crowd funding campaign, lays off nearly all employees and founder Tommy has vanished off the internet!
We reached out to a company Rep who stated -
“The company is doing better than ever”
Tune in tonight for more news as it happens folks!
As pointless as the Amico was, Amico Home seems even more pointless.
Right? That's almost impressive! They found a way to make the entire concept even stupider!
In case you haven't noticed gaming industry is tanking. Studio are laying off like crazy. The Amico purpose is to save gaming. And its doing that job one day at a time. Dev's are loving the innovation that Amico Home offers.
@@LelandReviewLoL I really just did LoL. you are awesome!
@@OysterSanchez No prob. I heard that there was one guy that legit was having trouble getting his refund. Not just trolling Tommy. Turned out he was contacting the wrong email the whole time. And once he msg the right one he got it in a few hours.
@@LelandReview Only IE would know that and they have a track record of lying and misinformation so I take what they say with a grain of salt.
All of this could've been avoided if Tommy wasn't CEO
It was doomed to fail either way
The only thing Tommy added was pumping this thing to be bigger than the Switch.
This never had the legs to get off the ground even with a competent team.
@@d77543020At least it would've been released and sold some units.
It was always doomed. Its concept was to solve a problem that didn't exist.
All of what could have been avoided ? Raising 20 million in crowd funding. And making Amico one of the most talked about subjects in the gaming community. Some people see that all as good things.
Good video! Thanks! for the update for the Amico home sales! They sure are selling a lot of games on the Amico home aren't they!
They aren't trying to sell them yet. It's still in beta. So no sales advertising.
@@LelandReviewTwo years in Beta? 😂
Love your trolling btw....
@@ilikepiproductions5916He's not a troll. Look him up, he's cr@zy.
I do love how the occasional shills wandering into the comments section to go "nuh-uh!" are getting absolutely *bodied* because they forgot that this isn't the safe space Alvarado made for them on Discord. Well, I guess the general public isn't the "real audience" then.
7:14: Good call!
Investors want to know: When will Tommy be going on Ellen to demonstrate the Amico Home?
At this point even the #1 Amico shill, DJC Game Studios, hasn't said anything about the system, the company or their weird mobile spinoff in over three weeks.
Selling the battered and beaten dead horse's corpse to the bankrupt glue factory at this point...
Even DJC, the Amico's biggest fanboy, hasn't made any new Amico content in almost a month.
@@SomeOrangeCatthat loser just makes cat videos now 😂
@@ilikepiproductions5916 Poor cat...
When I was just a boy I witnessed a group of men beat a horse to death in the middle of the street. It was the worst thing I've ever seen in my life.
Tommy’s 🌽Cornhole🕳…”I’d buy that for a dollar”
Wait…it’s $14.99?
Ummmmm…no thanks.
Be honest. If it was the best game in the world and it was 1 cent you still wouldn't buy it. You have made up your mind because you hate Tommy ?
@@LelandReview…I don’t like Mass-holes. The word you used is way too strong in my situation…maybe all the investors he wronged think that way but it’s not the way I feel.
Oh…and I wouldn’t buy anything he is selling ever for what he did(edit…tried to do) on May 29, 2018(& forward until his system project fiasco crumbled) to a legitimate/ongoing/iconic videogame entity. So…you’re kind of right.
Wait…I bought Dynablaster on my
🎮🕹ATARI VCS-800🕹🎮
oh wait…that doesn’t have anything to do with TT’s IE hobbled company that is about to shutdown entirely. Mon mauvais.
This just highlights everything gamers have been saying about the amico for years. These games are nothing but shovelware. And the amico as a whole is a freshly painted plug and play.
The dream is over!
How many years have haters been saying its over ? lol . No the dream ain't over. Its just getting good.
I think they're not really trying...
I'm glad everyone is seeing these low sales. It proves that Amico is not a good idea that was badly executed. It's a bad idea, period. Take away the need for a $300+ console, put them on the most popular mobile platform in the world, and no one still wants the games. No disrespect to anyone who pines for the Intellivision brand, but is anyone really surprised? Even the sales of BBG Entertainment's Astrosmash, Shark Shark, and Dynablaster on Steam are awful. Who is this lucrative unserved market when only 10+ buy Cornhole on Android? Why are games that were promised in 2018 still unfinished and buggy in 2024? But even the answers to these questions aren't the real point. The point of these games isn't to be critical or commercial darlings. They're being released so people redeem their codes and lower their debt obligations, and to be able to legally say "they tried".
I just think it's a shame Google lets developers keep an app in "early access" as long as they want. People deserve to see how poorly its reviewing too.
20 million in crowdfunding proves it wasn't a bad idea.
@@LelandReview 20 million to deliver nothing that was promised. 20 million to get 10+ downloads of Cornhole and 100+ downloads of Astrosmash, lawsuits, and the guy who came up with the idea having to sell his house sounds like a very terrible idea.
@@outsideredge Deliver nothing ? Then why am I playing Amico games on my TV right now ? :D The games are in Beta testing and not advertised yet... Do you know why Tommy sold his house ? Or just making more assumptions ? Some of the haters think he sold it to buy a bigger house with all the crowdfunding money. Nobody but Tommy really knows.
@@LelandReview Games announced in 2018 and promised as “on the rocketship” for 2020 are still in “beta” in 2024? With a development time like that they make Cornhole sound like Grand Theft Auto 6. By definition of calling it beta, they’re saying the games are buggy and unfinished. Based on what I’ve seen, I definitely agree with that. Regardless, they’ll gladly take the $15 from the dozens (dozens!) of people still holding on.
This is so disappointing. I was wanting a family friendly console to play with my young kid, wife, and other family.
Their offerings aren't good and can easily be replaced by other consoles for cheaper. 😭
@@darthkai8242 After all these years, the Wii is still a great time!
Switch or Wii. I own both and we play together all the time. The switch has tons of options and so does the wii.
@@OysterSanchez Yeah. We have a family Switch, and I have a Switch Lite that's just mine. Nothing like lazing around in bed on a Saturday morning to play Skyrim.
Using a cell phone as a controller is actually superior to any other console. Trick is to attach a stick on directional pad to make it more accurate.
@LelandReview those stick on buttons and controllers have been around forever because using a phone isn't ideal. They were designed to make the best of a bad controller situation. There have been years of research in controller design, and the company with the history of having one of the worst controllers is not innovating.
Sorry if you didn't know those types of things have been around since smartphones have been around, but you are wrong.
Valuable free advice but they are idiots and will stick with their ways
One very out of his head Amico cultist keeps going on about the chip shortage...which ended in 2022.
Unfortunately for IE, they are not Sony, MS, HP, Apple, etc, or whoever who have deep pockets, supply power, and economies of scale to go through this. Smaller companies have suffered and are still trying to recover from it today.
@@PuzZLeR_00 Blaze is a small company. They managed to secure Arm-based SoCs just fine. They had a plan, stuck to it and didn't put the cart before the horse.
Tommy had a plan too. Then the Pandemic hit.
One company's good fortune isn't an example for all. Many smaller companies got hurt.
*EDIT: Just noticed you deleted your comment again. Boy, I see you post on emotion, then regret after.
@@PuzZLeR_00 So many excuses. The pandemic and chip shortage are over so what's the excuse now? What'll the excuse be in the next 5 years when this still hasn't been released?
@@PuzZLeR_00 Blaze was just an upstart too, but they managed just fine.
The amico is an app now ?
Yeah, and its such a convoluted mess. You need the Amico home app, a "controller" app, at least two android devices(One as the "console" and one as the "controller"), and then you need to buy the games. Only the most diehard Amico fans are gonna bother with all that.
I want a HD Intellivision Flashback 2 with the majority of games for the original console.
It was always a scam
Don’t Stop Believing😵💫Hold On To That Feeling
✨10/15/2025✨
💥Keep The Fate🔥
In coming the Autism man and the others defending the sales or lack thereof real soon 😏😏
Yeah. Guzzler loves to claim "sales don't matter" when poor sales is constantly cited as a reason for something being discontinued. His "expertise" in business is about as believable as Lionel Hutz's legal degree.
So your making fun of people with Autism ? Wow , im glad im not in the Amico hating club anymore.
@@LelandReview Yup... I am making fun of that guy. Why? Because he dishes, it out and when someone gives it back to him? He cries how they are mean and he has Autism etc.
Sorry. Not sorry. Has nothing to do with hating the Amico. Dude has been an asshole to others, then blames his Autism as an excuse when he gets it back.
No they aren't trying hard to sell the games right now because they are in beta. Yes the other games still have updates coming from the beta testing. The Amico Discord is thriving with testers and game devs as we speak. And Jon Alvarado is working 24/7 getting things done. I think more people will get into Cornhole when they advertise the finished version. It's actually more fun then wii bowling. I'm doing more Amico Home live streams. Its really good when you attach a stick on directional disk. Turns your phone into a OG Intellivision controller on roids. Can even put on a woodgrain controller skin. Amico is like the Tortoise. Starts off slow but still wins the race. I think your right that normal controller support for the games would be a big improvement.
Lol 24/7. More like 1/1.
@@DeafSparrow I used to wonder if John really was working hard on Amico. Then after I joined the Amico Discord I seen him doing it everyday. Even on holidays.
@@LelandReview Wow he posts on Discord! By that logic I'm working hard right now!
@@DeafSparrow Ya in a way you are. Working hard at inspiring the console that will save gaming.
@@LelandReview The Amico can't even save itself. Lol.
Amico is still very much on the left side of the product life cycle curve. Sales mean very little here. It's about establishing your niche first, then towards your mainstream. John's doing that now.
You can crap on this comment all you like, but, you will also be crapping on academic professionals saying the exact same thing.
It's funny how you keep saying it's all about establishing a niche when you also claimed that Amico's true target audience will not have heard of it when it launches. If we look at Amico Home, we can see that the player base consists entirely of retro Intellivision gamers and the remakes of old Intellivision games are selling the best (with Shark Shark, Missile Command, and Astrosmash having 100+ sales while Cornhole and Dart Frenzy only sold 10+). So, going by your logic, the Amico should establish a niche of people who would most likely buy the system and then market to a completely different audience who has never heard of it because "3 BiLLiOn CaSuaL GaMErS." That's also assuming they have enough money to market it to the masses since they admitted to not having enough money to produce the console and Amico Home isn't exactly selling well at the moment.
@@comparc1972I do not say "Niche Market", and "Mainstream Market" in any synonymous way.
Tech Startups are advised to START with their niche first - the Early Adopters and Innovators - and in Amico's case that is the Intellivision/Retro Hardcores.
You are making warm contacts this way, not "cold calls". Each sale is less costly. You plant anchor and grow from there with your "warm audience", and start to slowly expand radius and make noise into your Mainstream, which is Casuals in this case.
This is a much better strategy than "chasing sales" which is like "cold calling". Even WITH good sales at start you could still fail if you don't stick to this plan as there are many pitfalls that need to be conquered.
So, having said that, I am not at all concerned about this "low sales" nonsense.
@@comparc1972My comment was deleted. Retry.
All I was saying is that "niche" and "mainstream" are not synonymous.
Tech startups are advised to start with the "early adopters" and "innovators" first. This is Amico's strong point - Retro/Intellivision Hardcores.
You plant anchor in your niche, and grow from there to your Mainstream.
Amico is on track with John now protecting the Discord and his audience. This is more important than "chasing sales".
@@PuzZLeR_00 You've just moved the goalposts again. Before, you were adamant that Amico's "true" target audience will not have heard of it when it launches. In fact, Tommy would go on and on and on claiming that casuals would be buying Amico consoles in droves and had already decided what the target market was before doing any real market research. What you're saying only works if Intellivision was a new startup company that only just launched Amico Home. In reality, Intellivision has been going at it for 6 years with a mountain of false promises and $17 million wasted on a console that's never going to be released. They've run out of money and even admitted that they're using Amico Home to try and either attract a new investor or fund the console using the money from the game sales. At this rate, it doesn't look like either is going to happen.
Are you being serious? It’s not even on a curve, if anything it’s on a flat line going off the end of a cliff. What are you seeing in this that everyone else isn’t? It’s an absolute mess of a system/app. Videogames are nothing new, Amico isn’t some unproven formula waiting to explode. It’s trash, everything about it is trash, and the fact there are laughable sales and 99% of the news stories online about Amico are negative. This is going nowhere and people need to just admit it at this point, it’s terrible. The way you’re talking is that Amico is going to have the biggest turn-around in success in the history of gaming. It’s utterly bizarre.
Hey NSG. Took a second look at this, and, again, I remain. But, allow me the opportunity to pretend to be IE for the moment and tell you straight up - WE ARE NOT INTERESTED.
Your ideas are good for increasing sales, to Gamers, Retroheads, etc, but it would be suicide for the real objective.
I know you're trying (for good or for bad), but John is doing just fine with the Discord, growing and nurturing his Early Market, and protecting his territory just nicely. Thank you.
"Early market" was four years ago. The "Early adopters" were the people who pre-ordered the console & bought the "physical products" they were told they'd to be able to activate on their shiny new Amico console in a years time, tops! Amico Home is a sad, watered down version of what was promised to them *four* years ago.
@@SomeOrangeCat The Early Market "WAS" applicable four years ago, and still "IS" today, and the Mainstream Market - Casuals - is still the longterm objective.
Despite IE's incompetence and bad luck they are still in the same game today. All they need is to finally have a successful launch.
You can do your "goalpost" talk all you like, but I see no referees. And, Casuals will not care what a bunch of internet trolls say about the past.
@@PuzZLeR_00 And yet there's no proof that casuals are going to be interested in this mess. At the moment, only retro gamers are interested in Amico Home and by your logic, that's who Intellivision should market the Amico to. All you're doing is making very inconsistent claims about who the target market is all while claiming Intellivision is perfect and never made any mistakes (and that Tommy totally wasn't telling lies).
@@comparc1972 Retros are the Early Adopters and Innovators. You start with your niche. Then you grow from there to your Mainstream (Casuals in this case). This is strategy well documented by Professionals.
Board games have Hardcores too. However, casuals buy a HUGE percentage of them because they sell the Experience of playing together in the same room. Amico will do this with video games.
And, this is only one way to sell Casuals.
I remind you that the board game Experience has sold very well for a century now. Even today. HUGE market too.
@@comparc1972 You have already been politely informed that there are many other better options for passionate Gamers.
Why don't you just go there instead of crapping around a product that is not selling you?