What do you think? Will the Amico actually release in 2021? Will it release sometime in 2022? Will it release at all? Were you someone with a preorder looking to now cancel yours? Let me know!
He'll eventually cobble together some kind of Android box with whatever pack-in games they managed to complete, and send that out to pre-orders with the promise of a proper firmware update that may or may not actually come later. That's the most likely way to bridge the gap between "we don't have the means to see this through to its proper completion" and "I'm too stubborn to not ship *something*".
Pat, I think they will go bankrupt soon, though I cannot say for certain if they manage to put amicos on the market or not. What is a 100% certain though, IE is an LLC. If it bellyflops, no one will be held accountable. Not even Tommy.
Either this is going to be like that phantom console and stay vaporware or, its gonna be full of shovelware they've just knocked up to get that number of launch titles they've stated. Its a shame because I may have picked one up at 150 but 250 is ridiculous. Oh well, guess if it comes out, I'll get one from the 9.99 dump bin in my local game store when it fails. Only upside I can see is, if its android based, you might be able to use it as an emulation box when they stop supporting it. Well done pat and Ian for calling this spot on.
I'm putting very high odds that it never is released and Tommy will full out blame Pat and Ian for the failure because they made negative videos about the system. Zero chances of Tommy being accountable for his poor decisions for the reason of the failure.
I don't think that Tommy would want to give that much credit to Pat and Ian. He'll blame it on covid and being a small 'underdog' team with huge aspirations.
99.5% correct. He will blame "haters" and covid without naming them directly. I don't even think it's vanity at this point. I'm really starting to think he has "little brother" syndrome. No matter how successful he gets or how much money he makes he'll never be at the same level as his cousin.
Someone close to Tommy needs to stage an intervention. This whole thing is a midlife crisis that's gone on way too long. He doesn't want to do the work of a video game company CEO. He just wants to roleplay as one in a desperate attempt to recapture some magic for the favorite brand of his youth. It's been clear for a while now that they just don't have the people in place to make this thing come together properly and the longer it goes on the sadder it gets.
And to be honest, there is nothing wrong with that. Let Tommy be the “face” of the company and let a team come in and get things sorted out so investors can at least break even.
If the Coleco brand hadn't been sniped for another scam product, I imagine this would be the Coleco Amico. He doesn't actually care about name. Except Nintendo, which he's had a personal _"vendetta"_ with since at least the G4 Days. (Though I like to imagine him making the rounds towards the Atari holdings, Phillips, Commodore, NEC, Fujitsu, Fairchild Camera and Instrument, Hilton, and Hasbro before each one of them told him to pound sand before he finally saw Intellivision's ailing founders and swooped down like the grifting vulture he is.
@@kajsagauza Before the universe began, there was a coin grab sound. When the big bang occurred, with was with a spiral of stars as it whistled out in 8 bit cheer!
4th delay now since end of 2021 was in an August email 'all energies and focus for founders' - which they had to have known was marketing and impossible. 4th deadline was missed. 5th is Q1 2022. 5 misses. CFO just blamed poor crowdfund on 'haters/trolls' on twitter. Was Tommy pushed, is he where his sick relative is ? Will he do the year ago booked music show ? We need to see Tommy with someone in the hospital. Or it's the newest lie.
I look forward to the day when Pat and Tommy meet and throw hands more than any possible release of the Amico. I've never seen so much controversy over what is essentially a total piece of shit that nobody is going to buy.
@@OM19_MO79 I think a compromise can and must be reached. Yeah, it's generally better to have patches, but you have the EAs and Activisions who use patching as a crutch to release unfinished shit. There has to be a minimum readiness standard, and if you need to fix things on the edge, fine, but paying for something that's not even close to ready.
@@jesuszamora6949 Who is going to implement this standard? There is already a solution to this problem: if you don’t like EA, Activision’s business practices; don’t support them with your money. I don’t.
Smash JT's response to this announcement is hilarious. He basically resorts to the 2nd grade logic of, "people are just hating on me because they're jealous that I'm more successful than them." And that's an actual quote from him.
I doubt that they are ever going to actually launch. If they can't put together 20,000 units for a launch and they can't finalize some simple games after such a long time then there is a very real possibility that Amico ecosystem has show-stopping flaws that they can't overcome. They aren't selling advanced AAA games on cutting edge hardware. There has to be a reason for the delays and it sure as hell isn't what Tommy is putting out.
Tbh, it'd make a really really dope footbath. I'd buy one for a reasonable price. At least now the RGB lights would make sense... for creating a relaxing ambiance you know
Funny how Turbo Joe had his buddy film him at a family event while dropping the F bomb in front of kids. But it's for the whole family. Rich stopped backing the Amico just not soon enough to save his dignity
I think they will have to ship consoles without controllers and tell people to use their phone to play it. Then they will promise to ship controllers at a later date, but it won't happen.
I described this to a friend recently, without mentioning specifics. They called it right out as a scam without me even getting into details. If someone like that who isn't even following can smell the bull without even approaching the pen, you know it's not good. My personal take: 90% of the Amico's problems can be solved with a roll of duct tape applied to Tommy's mouth.
The word that comes to my mind every time I hear about a new development in this story, would be "debacle." Another word that keeps popping into my head when I hear about the Amico's C.E.O. would be, "unscrupulous."
For all of the heat you get from Amico defenders, you've forecast almost every single Amico failing accurately, months in advance. People need to pay attention to your predictions.
Anyone else remember watching Tommy and Vic doing Judgement Day / Electronic Playground on G4 in the early 2000’s? Never did I think the guy who slammed any game that didn’t have big breasts, violence and swearing become a CEO of a “family friendly” company.
He also trashed every Wii game for not having graphics as advanced as the 360 and PS3. Now he's mister "Graphics don't matter! It's all about simple, family-friendly". Tommy thinks the pearl-clutching, "won't someone think of the CHILDREN!?" crowd is an easy mark. He wants to be the Pureflix of gaming.
With all due apologies to Lionel Richie and the Commodores: Because it's once, twice, three times delayed, yeaaaaahhhhhh.... Aaaaaammmmmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiicooooooooo! So, what comes first? Delay #4, or, an outright cancellation?
@@IanNewYashaTheFinalAct Tommy is not necessarily an easy target. I mean, have you tried to play deathmatch in Golden Eye against someone playing as Oddjob (really meant to be Nick-Nack)?
People shouldn't be surprised by any of the Amico stuff with Tommy. I mean hell even on the Video Games Live shows he mimed playing guitar. Shysters gonna shyst lol
Tommy should've just done what Soulja Boy did, take an existing product and just put his name on it. There are plenty of cheap knockoffs from China he could've put Amico shells on. Honestly that probably would've saved him alot of the problems he has now 😂
@@XanthinZarda They should also have the official cornhole beanbags ready by then too. So you can get the full 3D experience even if the console is delayed again.
And Tommy just put up a new crowdfunding proposal on "Fundable" in which he admits to (and this is probably a huge exaggeration in TT's favor) that the OS is only "90%" done and the backend (you know, the thing you would need to create an account, buy games, activate your "physical products", etc) is only "80%". He's down from hundreds of developers with 50 launch window games to just 40 "in development" total. Also remember that software engineers will tell you the last 10% takes half the time, so their OS should be done in another two years. Again, this was something that was meant to be in people's homes in October 2020 and Tommy had said was "99.9%" done last year. Funnily, he claims in his new pitch that the hardware is 100% complete, yet the Amico still doesn't have its FCC certification. Without it, IE doesn't even KNOW if the hardware is complete. It could require (costly, lengthy) changes to gain certification. He also modified his "tens of thousands of pre-orders" to just "6000+". "Tens of thousands" is 20000+ at a minimum. So he either had a lot of cancellations or he's just pulling numbers out of his ass- although being more careful now that he's drawn the attention of the SEC. To soften the blow, he now added some new "partners" but lists them as "in process" including Crayola and Playmobil. "In process" has no legal meaning. There's no contract signed. Tommy could have randomly sent an email to Playmobil that said "want a ride in my Ferrari?" and could say negotiations were "in process". Even with a contract, deals still fall through. There was a signed contract for a Superman movie starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Tim Burton. That was a "done deal" with a contract, money changing hands, and everything. Have you seen a Tim Burton Superman movie with Nic Cage? So "in process" is just more meaningless puffery like his talk of a four-player Contra (bet the Mom 2.0s will LOVE that).
Tommy's a personality he doesn't know how to run a company. All he sees is dollar signs in his retirement fund. Tommy was so preoccupied to see if he could make a console he didn't stop to think if he should.
Retailers over here in Germany like Media Markt, Saturn and Amazon rescheduled the release as of today to December 31st 2022!!! That means they don't know sh*t and this is not looking good. I was never much interested in the Amico but I wanted to check for myself after release... well, I guess I complete Cyberpunk without any glitch or crash on my Steam Deck way before I speed run corn hole 😂
Human beings never want to admit that they’ve been conned. It’s fascinating to watch but also very pathetic and sad. Boomers and Gen X Vintage video game enthusiasts have money and unfortunately there are scores of bottom feeding con artists circling the waters.
I just have a feeling that they're probably having financial issues and they're probably looking for more investors. I think it's going to be 2023 before we see anything, and I wouldn't be too shocked if a lawsuit happens in the future.
Pat…he still hasn’t decided where he is going to build his “HyperScan Amico”…China-Mexico-USA-Canada? Like…when is he going to decide on that simple but major aspect of this whole endeavor?
Tommy's posts and communications make me kinda sick tbh. He reminds me of narcissists who manipulate their poor girlfriends with lies and promises that never materialize. Pretty gross...
Back way way way, I was considering getting one, realizing that this was starting to fall apart I said nah. I’m happy with my Xbox/ ps and the retro games being spit out on the marketplace
Lemme guess...Tommy is going to blame the pandemic on "chip shortage" for the 100th time although his chips are from 2013 and his project started before the pandemic.
@@cellversesfrieza Tell me about it! Why not a free Amico game? Tommy is so stuck on himself, he actually thought giving away his music was the best course of action. Lol!
It's not surprising though. Investors want to make money, not lose it. After a third delay and no sign of the console ever launching at this point, confidence will be in very short supply.
My world is shattered I was soooo looking forward to wasting 250$ to put it on my shelf just like the rest of the old nostalgic people and just stare at it. Because I'm too old to press buttons and play complex games. Even 20min is too long to play to beat a game. I wish I could just give my bank account number away and just get 47 versions on missle command and asteroids until I die.
When all of this is finally over, whatever the outcome may be...this has the potential to be the craziest/weirdest video game documentary ever, bar none ... Edit...really need a detailed "Doc Brown" chalkboard diagram of a timeline of events for the Amico...just so that myself & others can direct the average joe to it whenever someone asks about the Amico & I'm at a loss for words on where to even begin
I hope no one else suggested this,but maybe the Amico should put out cards like the ex prez did to help their company out lol.They don't do anything but i bet a lot of these Amico fans would buy those(just like the ex prez fans).
You know, all I really wanted was an "Intellivision Mini", something similar to the old Intellivision Flashback but HDMI with accurate emulation and better overall quality. I never wanted this new "family" console, I just wanted an HDMI Intellivision Mini. That's obviously not happening now.
@13:20 it's pretty weak to notice the kid has a shark jaw on his shirt and turned out talarico is trying to boot sharkshark. not a very imaginative guy. i bet he never reads past a headline either.
And the gift is....a bunch of MP3s. People speculating things like t-shirts didn't consider that even if they were unsellable crap merch, Tommy would still have to pay shipping. So of course he sent some files he had lying around. "Gee, where can I get a copy of the Advent Rising soundtrack?" asked no one ever. Check out G4's review of Advent Rising (when TT worked there) to hear Adam Sessler mock its score in particular (with a very sarcastic "Ooooooh!") and then outright say it was a piss-poor Halo ripoff (TT's musical score and the game). But watch all of Tommy's white knights pretend like this is the biggest reward ever (but what about the friends we made along the way?) and how the delay is totally worth it. Heck, I predict a few will pretend that if they NEVER get their pre-ordered Amico, their money will have been well spent just to get these MP3s.
@@ezg2000 Well Tommy had to find the Zune where he stored all those Advent Rising recordings. Then he had to find the correct charging cable. Then he had to find the right drivers. Then he had to find a working Windows XP machine for Zune sync software to run on. That's a solid week of Tommy digging through stacks of unsold Wii games in his storage unit.
Just makes me wonder after this damned thing dies who is going to be next to complete the trifecta of failed consoles…The Chameleon, Amico, then ______
The spectrum portable was a POS and a giant scam. Also, the VCS is pretty much a useless and outdated thing. So awful to see those big brands of yesteryear being treated so poorly.
there is no shortage of parts, all the parts tommy needs to make this thing are there so he needs to just admit that the amico has issues he can't work out
They need to get Soulja Boy involved. That dude is pushing out product. It may not be his, but it's out there!! I can see it now: A limited edition Intellivision Soulja Boy TallAmico. 5000 games, 10 repeats of Cornhole.
The funny part is how similar they are and Tommy's lack of self-awareness. When someone suggested Tommy "under-promise and over-deliver" (which is a nice way of saying "STFU, Tommy"), Tommy shot back "My philosophy is to OVER-promise". And he is PROUD of that philosophy.
What do you think? Will the Amico actually release in 2021? Will it release sometime in 2022? Will it release at all? Were you someone with a preorder looking to now cancel yours? Let me know!
Hilarious! Amico is a joke.
He'll eventually cobble together some kind of Android box with whatever pack-in games they managed to complete, and send that out to pre-orders with the promise of a proper firmware update that may or may not actually come later.
That's the most likely way to bridge the gap between "we don't have the means to see this through to its proper completion" and "I'm too stubborn to not ship *something*".
I got my pre order still so someone can give an honest review.
Pat, I think they will go bankrupt soon, though I cannot say for certain if they manage to put amicos on the market or not. What is a 100% certain though, IE is an LLC. If it bellyflops, no one will be held accountable. Not even Tommy.
Either this is going to be like that phantom console and stay vaporware or, its gonna be full of shovelware they've just knocked up to get that number of launch titles they've stated.
Its a shame because I may have picked one up at 150 but 250 is ridiculous. Oh well, guess if it comes out, I'll get one from the 9.99 dump bin in my local game store when it fails.
Only upside I can see is, if its android based, you might be able to use it as an emulation box when they stop supporting it.
Well done pat and Ian for calling this spot on.
As Ian always says, getting the product out is still just the starting line 😂
I'm putting very high odds that it never is released and Tommy will full out blame Pat and Ian for the failure because they made negative videos about the system. Zero chances of Tommy being accountable for his poor decisions for the reason of the failure.
I don't think that Tommy would want to give that much credit to Pat and Ian. He'll blame it on covid and being a small 'underdog' team with huge aspirations.
99.5% correct. He will blame "haters" and covid without naming them directly. I don't even think it's vanity at this point. I'm really starting to think he has "little brother" syndrome. No matter how successful he gets or how much money he makes he'll never be at the same level as his cousin.
Unfortunately he can always use Covid as an excuse.
"They have been making games since the middle ages" that got me in stitches 🤣😂😅
@@OM19_MO79 😂🤣😅
You called it over and over and haters tried to hate but don't they feel silly now!! YEA!
Exactly
Someone close to Tommy needs to stage an intervention. This whole thing is a midlife crisis that's gone on way too long. He doesn't want to do the work of a video game company CEO. He just wants to roleplay as one in a desperate attempt to recapture some magic for the favorite brand of his youth. It's been clear for a while now that they just don't have the people in place to make this thing come together properly and the longer it goes on the sadder it gets.
And to be honest, there is nothing wrong with that. Let Tommy be the “face” of the company and let a team come in and get things sorted out so investors can at least break even.
If the Coleco brand hadn't been sniped for another scam product, I imagine this would be the Coleco Amico. He doesn't actually care about name. Except Nintendo, which he's had a personal _"vendetta"_ with since at least the G4 Days.
(Though I like to imagine him making the rounds towards the Atari holdings, Phillips, Commodore, NEC, Fujitsu, Fairchild Camera and Instrument, Hilton, and Hasbro before each one of them told him to pound sand before he finally saw Intellivision's ailing founders and swooped down like the grifting vulture he is.
@@XanthinZardaHe had that vandetta since Electric Playground days :p
"600 years of talent" always kills me lol
I have way more than that on my small team and we just provide a medical billing backend for a single client. That is such a silly metric.
@@kajsagauza Before the universe began, there was a coin grab sound. When the big bang occurred, with was with a spiral of stars as it whistled out in 8 bit cheer!
4th delay now since end of 2021 was in an August email 'all energies and focus for founders' - which they had to have known was marketing and impossible. 4th deadline was missed. 5th is Q1 2022. 5 misses. CFO just blamed poor crowdfund on 'haters/trolls' on twitter. Was Tommy pushed, is he where his sick relative is ? Will he do the year ago booked music show ? We need to see Tommy with someone in the hospital. Or it's the newest lie.
It's like when prosecution measures drugs in milligrams instead of grams to make the amount seem bigger to the jury.
The way Ian looks at the camera when he says that lmao
I look forward to the day when Pat and Tommy meet and throw hands more than any possible release of the Amico. I've never seen so much controversy over what is essentially a total piece of shit that nobody is going to buy.
Barstool RNR dream match
@@OM19_MO79 I think a compromise can and must be reached. Yeah, it's generally better to have patches, but you have the EAs and Activisions who use patching as a crutch to release unfinished shit. There has to be a minimum readiness standard, and if you need to fix things on the edge, fine, but paying for something that's not even close to ready.
@@jesuszamora6949 Who is going to implement this standard? There is already a solution to this problem: if you don’t like EA, Activision’s business practices; don’t support them with your money. I don’t.
Smash JT's response to this announcement is hilarious. He basically resorts to the 2nd grade logic of, "people are just hating on me because they're jealous that I'm more successful than them." And that's an actual quote from him.
Is he walking without a shirt uphill both literally and figuratively again?
that guy is a buffoon who's getting taken for a ride
Smash JT is a irrelevant joke and he has never gotten off Tommy’s lap. Successful my ass.
@@JohnSmith-yd5wq Yes. Yes he is actually 😆
@@HiNRGboy he THINKS he is though. And just like with Tommy, that's all that matters to him.
I doubt that they are ever going to actually launch. If they can't put together 20,000 units for a launch and they can't finalize some simple games after such a long time then there is a very real possibility that Amico ecosystem has show-stopping flaws that they can't overcome. They aren't selling advanced AAA games on cutting edge hardware. There has to be a reason for the delays and it sure as hell isn't what Tommy is putting out.
I have a feeling that they may have ran out of money and are probably looking for more investors.
The thing still looks like a bathroom scale with a couple iPods sitting on it.
More like a foot bath.
Even if I receive one for free, I would never plug it on my TV. Everything I hate about the Wii and WiiU in 1 box.
Looks like two hdmi switch remotes fell into a foot measurer.
I think it was George Orwell that once said, " the Amico console will be delayed for a third time".
Literally 1984
@@ozmond Yep, disinformation.
No, that was Orson Welles
@@FIXTREME in the wine commercials, “we will sell no wine before it’s time”
JUST like Amico
No that was Confucius
While we all saw it coming, I actually laughed out loud when I read the title.
Same :D
SAME DUDE LOL
Maybe Tommy can sell the amico molds to a dentist equipment company.
At least the Jaguar got released.
Nah, the footbath would be better at a Podiatrist's office
Tbh, it'd make a really really dope footbath. I'd buy one for a reasonable price. At least now the RGB lights would make sense... for creating a relaxing ambiance you know
The Amico drama is probably more entertaining than the console itself
Seriously. People will always claim they "hate drama," but c'mon. This is fucking interesting content and I'm always hungry for more.
It’s been such a train wreck, it’s impossible to turn away.
It's funnier with the Tommy voicemail calls
This is the fyre fest of gaming consoles- without the hype
At least the fyre fest patrons got a wet cheese sandwich.
@@WilSan74 lol! Like the fyre fest, I wouldn’t be surprised if some people go to jail.
Where’s Ja Rule??? 😁
@@jeffderiemacker4418 That’s not fraud! I would call that….false advertising?
@@jeffderiemacker4418 oh, you mean Smash JT?
Funny how Turbo Joe had his buddy film him at a family event while dropping the F bomb in front of kids. But it's for the whole family. Rich stopped backing the Amico just not soon enough to save his dignity
Rich never had any dignity to save, though.
@@PatTheNESpunk But he has that weird chicken or whatever
Who is Turdbo Joe⁉️
I have been waiting for this video ever since I read about it in an article a few days ago.
I think they will have to ship consoles without controllers and tell people to use their phone to play it. Then they will promise to ship controllers at a later date, but it won't happen.
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT
I described this to a friend recently, without mentioning specifics. They called it right out as a scam without me even getting into details.
If someone like that who isn't even following can smell the bull without even approaching the pen, you know it's not good.
My personal take: 90% of the Amico's problems can be solved with a roll of duct tape applied to Tommy's mouth.
And the other 10% can be solved with a boot up Tommy's ass. After you pull Tommy's head out of it first, that is.
The word that comes to my mind every time I hear about a new development in this story, would be "debacle." Another word that keeps popping into my head when I hear about the Amico's C.E.O. would be, "unscrupulous."
For all of the heat you get from Amico defenders, you've forecast almost every single Amico failing accurately, months in advance. People need to pay attention to your predictions.
I'm just not sure how they ever bought Tommy Tallarico's fucking snake oil.
How much good was their 600 years of experience for them if they're completely failing at rolling out a technologically outdated piece of hardware?
That's a good question to ponder over a glass of Amicopium.
Anyone else remember watching Tommy and Vic doing Judgement Day / Electronic Playground on G4 in the early 2000’s? Never did I think the guy who slammed any game that didn’t have big breasts, violence and swearing become a CEO of a “family friendly” company.
Yes. It is rather ironic. I do remember watching those shows. Tommy was purposely giving bad reviews. I wasn't a huge fan
He also trashed every Wii game for not having graphics as advanced as the 360 and PS3. Now he's mister "Graphics don't matter! It's all about simple, family-friendly". Tommy thinks the pearl-clutching, "won't someone think of the CHILDREN!?" crowd is an easy mark. He wants to be the Pureflix of gaming.
@@MrTBoneSF yep, he was anti Nintendo for some reason. Probably a falling out on the Metroid Prime stuff.
Re: the controller shutting off after being tapped, I think that was mmofallout's non-cultist impressions.
It was
With all due apologies to Lionel Richie and the Commodores:
Because it's once, twice, three times delayed, yeaaaaahhhhhh....
Aaaaaammmmmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiicooooooooo!
So, what comes first? Delay #4, or, an outright cancellation?
C'mon, lay off Tommy, he's just an easy target.
*Easy like Sunday morning*
...🎶Sexual healing
Hello...is it Amico you're looking for
@@IanNewYashaTheFinalAct Tommy is not necessarily an easy target. I mean, have you tried to play deathmatch in Golden Eye against someone playing as Oddjob (really meant to be Nick-Nack)?
That thing is going to be "retro" even before it comes out.
Time to start the Amico death watch
God damn... AtariAge traded its reputation to white-knight America's answer to the Vega+.
You guys are great. Screw the haters. Btw I'll watch after Amico ends just like I watched before Amico was sparkle in Tommys eye
People shouldn't be surprised by any of the Amico stuff with Tommy. I mean hell even on the Video Games Live shows he mimed playing guitar. Shysters gonna shyst lol
Tommy should've just done what Soulja Boy did, take an existing product and just put his name on it. There are plenty of cheap knockoffs from China he could've put Amico shells on. Honestly that probably would've saved him alot of the problems he has now 😂
Nah he's to egotistical for that
You haters failed to acknowledge that the printable high score certificates might be ready for Xmas!
Take notes Xbox/playstation
Okay, but what if I and this might be a weird flex, _don't own a printer?_
@@XanthinZarda They'll have the high score format notebooks ready for January? Do you have a pen and/or pencil?
@@XanthinZarda They should also have the official cornhole beanbags ready by then too. So you can get the full 3D experience even if the console is delayed again.
@@XanthinZarda No problem! We'll be happy to fax you a copy for a small fee!
This is up for pre order in the UK on Argos for £250. The Series S is £250... Yikes
And Tommy just put up a new crowdfunding proposal on "Fundable" in which he admits to (and this is probably a huge exaggeration in TT's favor) that the OS is only "90%" done and the backend (you know, the thing you would need to create an account, buy games, activate your "physical products", etc) is only "80%". He's down from hundreds of developers with 50 launch window games to just 40 "in development" total. Also remember that software engineers will tell you the last 10% takes half the time, so their OS should be done in another two years. Again, this was something that was meant to be in people's homes in October 2020 and Tommy had said was "99.9%" done last year. Funnily, he claims in his new pitch that the hardware is 100% complete, yet the Amico still doesn't have its FCC certification. Without it, IE doesn't even KNOW if the hardware is complete. It could require (costly, lengthy) changes to gain certification. He also modified his "tens of thousands of pre-orders" to just "6000+". "Tens of thousands" is 20000+ at a minimum. So he either had a lot of cancellations or he's just pulling numbers out of his ass- although being more careful now that he's drawn the attention of the SEC. To soften the blow, he now added some new "partners" but lists them as "in process" including Crayola and Playmobil. "In process" has no legal meaning. There's no contract signed. Tommy could have randomly sent an email to Playmobil that said "want a ride in my Ferrari?" and could say negotiations were "in process". Even with a contract, deals still fall through. There was a signed contract for a Superman movie starring Nicolas Cage and directed by Tim Burton. That was a "done deal" with a contract, money changing hands, and everything. Have you seen a Tim Burton Superman movie with Nic Cage? So "in process" is just more meaningless puffery like his talk of a four-player Contra (bet the Mom 2.0s will LOVE that).
Tommy's a personality he doesn't know how to run a company. All he sees is dollar signs in his retirement fund. Tommy was so preoccupied to see if he could make a console he didn't stop to think if he should.
Excellent Jurassic Park reference!
I'm just here to try out my new Frank emojis
FRANKly, those are amazing.
you did it! cool
Retailers over here in Germany like Media Markt, Saturn and Amazon rescheduled the release as of today to December 31st 2022!!! That means they don't know sh*t and this is not looking good. I was never much interested in the Amico but I wanted to check for myself after release... well, I guess I complete Cyberpunk without any glitch or crash on my Steam Deck way before I speed run corn hole 😂
This has become Pat and Ian's Watergate, so many twists and turns, can't wait for the movie adaption.
So will "Deep Throat" be Smash JT or John Riggs?
Human beings never want to admit that they’ve been conned. It’s fascinating to watch but also very pathetic and sad. Boomers and Gen X Vintage video game enthusiasts have money and unfortunately there are scores of bottom feeding con artists circling the waters.
Pat and Ian right again. Amico fans will go crazy and go after everyone now that talk about their console in negative light or honestly.
Imagine grandmothers and kids throwing their 800$ iPhones at the 4K Screen breaking both.
At this point lawnmower man grandmas won't be able to buy this off QVC
@@JohnSmith-yd5wq Not even the Chinese will want to sell cheap knockoff of it.
I just have a feeling that they're probably having financial issues and they're probably looking for more investors. I think it's going to be 2023 before we see anything, and I wouldn't be too shocked if a lawsuit happens in the future.
With the way things are going, I expect to see Tommy someday on American Greed.
Pat…he still hasn’t decided where he is going to build his “HyperScan Amico”…China-Mexico-USA-Canada? Like…when is he going to decide on that simple but major aspect of this whole endeavor?
Tommy's posts and communications make me kinda sick tbh. He reminds me of narcissists who manipulate their poor girlfriends with lies and promises that never materialize. Pretty gross...
This has been Tommy for years. He has always been one of the most thin-skinned, up-his-own-ass people in the games industry.
"I don't know why I go back to him. He keeps promising to show me his cornhole." 😪
@@lexorcism lmao!
He reminds me of a political cold caller.
This Amico team couldn't run a bath, let alone a company
I am SHOCKED
The investors are still there for this.
Once again, bless you guys for continually reporting on this disaster. People need to know this stuff!
This saga has made for more entertaining drama to me than any episodic show on any paid streaming service.
OEM Pete Turbo Joe Smash JT all attack me for saying how Pat and Ian have been correct since the start
Back way way way, I was considering getting one, realizing that this was starting to fall apart I said nah. I’m happy with my Xbox/ ps and the retro games being spit out on the marketplace
In December I guarantee they ship out some sort of intellivision commemorative item to "select" preorder buyers.
“Land like a wet fucking fart” sooo good I really LOL
Lemme guess...Tommy is going to blame the pandemic on "chip shortage" for the 100th time although his chips are from 2013 and his project started before the pandemic.
More like poker chips shortage, no money.
Now now, let's be fair. The chips are from 2015 ;p
Maybe next year when everything BUT the Amico has shipped, he can start blaming Climate Change.
@@devilmikey00 🤣🤣
@@OM19_MO79 😂😂
22:03 Now THAT'S a reference. But now that he's said it, I kinda want a pop-o-matic bubble dead center in the Amico you can whack
Did you hear what Intellivision’s free gift was to early backers? Tommy’s music!
Geez that is lame
@@cellversesfrieza Tell me about it! Why not a free Amico game? Tommy is so stuck on himself, he actually thought giving away his music was the best course of action. Lol!
7:35 onwards Pat looking at Ian like a proud father at a school play....
At least the scalpers won't be buying this, Just to jack up the price more.
Guys, please move or reposition the Link mask, his dead eyes are staring deep into my soul 😆😋
Kind of like Tommy looking into potential investors’ eyes.
Third delay = Three Strikes and "YER OUT"
Intellivision has lost 11 investors and over $20,000 on their Republic page in the last 24 hours... things just get worse for Tommy.
It's not surprising though. Investors want to make money, not lose it. After a third delay and no sign of the console ever launching at this point, confidence will be in very short supply.
@@scootakuh3142 Yeah for sure, I'm sure many more will be dropping out over the coming weeks/months.
This console is like Bigfoot, talked about so much but never seen!
My world is shattered I was soooo looking forward to wasting 250$ to put it on my shelf just like the rest of the old nostalgic people and just stare at it. Because I'm too old to press buttons and play complex games. Even 20min is too long to play to beat a game. I wish I could just give my bank account number away and just get 47 versions on missle command and asteroids until I die.
The Amico doesn't need to release, because the Amico, in the end, was the friends we made along the way.
When all of this is finally over, whatever the outcome may be...this has the potential to be the craziest/weirdest video game documentary ever, bar none
...
Edit...really need a detailed "Doc Brown" chalkboard diagram of a timeline of events for the Amico...just so that myself & others can direct the average joe to it whenever someone asks about the Amico & I'm at a loss for words on where to even begin
I'm shocked! Oh wait.. No I'm not...
I used to think those toy consoles and computers made by the company Tomy were terrible but at least they actually existed. Tomy>Tommy
Don't mind delays. It's the pretending to be further along than they actually are that annoys me.
I hope no one else suggested this,but maybe the Amico should put out cards like the ex prez did to help their company out lol.They don't do anything but i bet a lot of these Amico fans would buy those(just like the ex prez fans).
(This is exactly what the Amico's collectable "physical releases" are.) (They're RFID cards that may only contain but a download code.)
They dropped at midnight to give themselves 12hrs to prepare for the shitshorm.
I got the test results back-I'm legally deemed stupid. Two Amicos, please!
You know, all I really wanted was an "Intellivision Mini", something similar to the old Intellivision Flashback but HDMI with accurate emulation and better overall quality. I never wanted this new "family" console, I just wanted an HDMI Intellivision Mini. That's obviously not happening now.
Well, good news. The Evercade Mini exists, and there's even an Intellivision cartridge for it.
There is more fun to be had by their reaction than the amico 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@13:20 it's pretty weak to notice the kid has a shark jaw on his shirt and turned out talarico is trying to boot sharkshark. not a very imaginative guy.
i bet he never reads past a headline either.
It's not a console, it's a soap opera!
It’s an oversized soap dish.
@@WilSan74
Soap - the favorite dish for Amico investors.
And the gift is....a bunch of MP3s. People speculating things like t-shirts didn't consider that even if they were unsellable crap merch, Tommy would still have to pay shipping. So of course he sent some files he had lying around. "Gee, where can I get a copy of the Advent Rising soundtrack?" asked no one ever. Check out G4's review of Advent Rising (when TT worked there) to hear Adam Sessler mock its score in particular (with a very sarcastic "Ooooooh!") and then outright say it was a piss-poor Halo ripoff (TT's musical score and the game). But watch all of Tommy's white knights pretend like this is the biggest reward ever (but what about the friends we made along the way?) and how the delay is totally worth it. Heck, I predict a few will pretend that if they NEVER get their pre-ordered Amico, their money will have been well spent just to get these MP3s.
I mean he couldn't give a discount coupon to the amico merch shop. And people had to wait a week for this news.
@@ezg2000 Well Tommy had to find the Zune where he stored all those Advent Rising recordings. Then he had to find the correct charging cable. Then he had to find the right drivers. Then he had to find a working Windows XP machine for Zune sync software to run on. That's a solid week of Tommy digging through stacks of unsold Wii games in his storage unit.
First heard about the announcement via Nintendo Life. What a shock. But to their credit they also posted an update about Analogue restocks.
Reading Atari Age forums is my new happy place.
It's vaporware at this point. As much as I dog Polymega, I actually believe you've got a better chance of having it in your hands than an Amico.
In the words of Jon Taffer Shut It Down
Best case....limited run to backers, then absolutely nothing beyond that, because "reasons".
So many kids going to be disappointed Santa won't have an Amico under the tree. 🤣
Just makes me wonder after this damned thing dies who is going to be next to complete the trifecta of failed consoles…The Chameleon, Amico, then ______
The spectrum portable was a POS and a giant scam. Also, the VCS is pretty much a useless and outdated thing. So awful to see those big brands of yesteryear being treated so poorly.
Colleco is cursed at this point
Came to the conclusion that Tommy delayed the console a third time just to troll Pat and Ian.
I will not be surprised if he actually tows that narrative. Lol
Who else is excited for Tommy's inevitable phone call next week?
There's one this week....
@@FrogTony Oh, lol. I had to stop the video, so I didn't get that far.
@@UncleSilverGaming its not in this video... Last video of this episode will have it
@@FrogTony Lol, I'm looking forward to it!
This thing would have struggled if it came out in time, let alone after a third delay. This train wreck is fun watching in real time.
Best reality show around. Just can't wait for the Netflix doc.
Somebody is going to end up with a pin-striped suntan over this debacle.
Listening to the podcast. The "Lately" lyric is from an Oasis song. We're Gonna Live Forever or something like that.
This was vaporware since day one. It’s never coming out.
7:19 was Ian imitating OEB Pete? 😂
Think you're right.
That popular old Medieval game - Trebuchet Sniper.
Catapult Cornhole?
@@PatTheNESpunk I was reaching a bit there, but yeah.
there is no shortage of parts, all the parts tommy needs to make this thing are there so he needs to just admit that the amico has issues he can't work out
... And it feels like the third time!
This console has gone to the etheral Cornhole of never-ending limbo.
They need to get Soulja Boy involved. That dude is pushing out product. It may not be his, but it's out there!! I can see it now: A limited edition Intellivision Soulja Boy TallAmico. 5000 games, 10 repeats of Cornhole.
This keeps reminding me of Mike Kennedy and his console adventures however in Tommy's case this is very very very different.
The funny part is how similar they are and Tommy's lack of self-awareness. When someone suggested Tommy "under-promise and over-deliver" (which is a nice way of saying "STFU, Tommy"), Tommy shot back "My philosophy is to OVER-promise". And he is PROUD of that philosophy.
man 60 employees, think of the wage bill EVERY month! With zero income
Three strikes and yer out, Tommy!
This thing is so unfinished across the board. software, hardware, all unfinished.
The only thing finished is Tommy.