All Tommy and Co needed to do was release an HD, modern tech, plug-n-play Intellivision mini with all the top games and some exciting new ones, but hubris and incompetence was all they were capable of achieving, which quickly morphed this ill-conceived project into a full-blown scam.
@@LelandReview No, it became a scam when they lied about how far along they were in order to secure more investment. Every subsequent lie about how close they were to release only for the can to be kicked down the road only made that worse. I have no doubt they set out to make the console, it wasn't started as a scam, but it became one through their sheer incompetence.
@@LelandReview IE raised more than $17 million in capital and still couldn't successfully launch their product. No matter how dubious you feel the Amico is as at a conceptual level, you must admit that the endeavor itself was egregiously mishandled.
Notice that Amico content gets the most views on UA-cam. And a lot of people are loving it more then ever. It's only a handful of people complaining and crying wolf.
@@sebastiann.8088 Tommy helped me get my UA-cam channel going years before Amico was announced. By watching my vids and leaving great feedback. So I do try and return the favor when I can. Working for Intellivision one day would be like a dream come true.
@@Jeffmetal42 Ya could be , people can't look away from a train wreck. But I think its also because love him or hate him Tommy really got the word out that Amico exists. People are dying for it to save gaming.
I re-watched their pre-order gameplay trailer of 2020 and it's kind of sad. There's many games I'd like to play and never came out, in particular the Mike Mika games (Cloudy Mountain and Night Stalker remakes), Breakout, that dolphin game made by the Ecco guys, even Skiing, to name a few. Many honest and good devs were left in the cold when the company took a bad turn. I hope they can actually manage to release these games somehow because some were almost complete.
Over a week has passed since the released of the Amico Home apps and the buzz has been quite low. The fact that the controller app have less of a half downloads compared with the main app tells everything. Doesn't help the fact that no only the games are having way less downloads. I mean, those games are waaaaay too expensive.
1k downloads for Amico Home, 500 downloads for The Amico Controller, and 50 downloads for Missile Command and Astrosmash. Despite this, Leland will continue to pretend as if Amico Home has been a huge success. He's on literally every single Amico video trying desperately to spin Amico Home as a success despite the overwhelming proof that it's not. I don't think he's trying to convince us, he's trying to convince himself.
Love the Minus One comparison. I've also heard that it was even less than 15 million for that movie. Just goes to show you when you understand business and plan efficiently you can succeed. Tommy flat out didn't understand the console market and tried to conflate it with the mobile market, he blew millions on empty office space because he was a pandemic denier, and thought he could get away with it by cozying up to youtubers.
@@LelandReview Of course you are...that's why you've got the time to look for critical videos and leave multiple comments to defend this mess. Who are you trying to convince, us or yourself?
The only viable "strategy" for Intellivision Entertainment at this point is to file for Chapter 11 and sell their entire portfolio of IPs. Guarantee you Atari would buy the entire catalogue (for the right price).
The Amico Home is a clumsily disguised way of surreptisiously fulfilling preorders before they inevitably file for bankruptcy. At least UA-camrs will be able to confirm that the Amico library wasnt going to be worth the asking price for the hardware.
This is the result of the failure of management. In project management, the scope of work, and the agreement with the designer must all be crystal clear, and communication between one another must be clear. If they followed these principles, this would have never happened. Scope of work, fit for the jobs based on experience were all obviously unclear, communication between departments were very unclear, thus resulting in devastating consequences. After taking a class in project management, there aren't any guesses as to why they failed. Managing projects is a big deal, and such miscommunications are the costliest mistakes any company can make...
It's been a scam from the word go. The original point of the project was to entice someone into buying them out before they had to produce anything. That didn't happen. Thus began a long saga of kicking the can down the road.
The "Intellivision" brand has so much negative baggage from the Amico/T.T. dumpster fire that I don't think anyone is willing to take the risk. The hole is so deep it's gonna take so much time, energy, resources, and money to dig it out and repair all the damage. Why not invest in something that's not carrying all that baggage right from the start?
I wanted to try it, but I don't know how, as I can't have the home and controller app running on the same phone. Don't know where I should install the home app.
You need another phone or tablet to install the Home app, then the controller app on another phone. They either didn't have the talent to port it properly, or were too lazy, so this was the sloppy solution they came up with to try to claw a few more dollars from people. Don't fall for it. If you pre-ordered, get your refund and don't claim these games. If you didn't, and still want to try these games, they're available on PC and Switch ( I believe). Search for their names to find a list of availability. Amico Home is a dead end not worth investing into.
It's crazy that Tommy raised 17M then wasted all that money on useless stuff instead of actually making the consoles, now he's scraping the barrel by selling ip rights and lame roms on mobile and people still try to defend the whole thing. If you're this delusional you deserve to be scammed... there are hundreds of tiny startups that raised a fraction of that money but delivered the product they promised.
I mentioned how complicated this app is to setup and operate on the Amico fan page on FB... And I have Karen Amico shill cry to the administrators that my comment is hurtful LOL.... Intellivison is dead
Another great video NSG. I downloaded the Amico Home app on my phone for just the curiosity and I never planned on buying anything through the app. Imagine my surprise when, shockingly, the app boots up and I am immediately stopped at the home page by a pop-up telling me that I can't continue forward unless I have the controller app loaded onto another phone or tablet. I feel so much rage and confusion because this is the failure of Intellivison and the Amico all wrapped up in one incredibly stupid idea that has some of the worst user friendliness in any technological system in the past two decades. How do you screw up one of the most basic ideas of creating a phone app? This is worse than Ubisoft managing to screw up Tetris. At least Tetris has so many versions to choose from and even programming friendly to those who want try their hands at it. Sorry for the rant there but Intellivision is dead. I can't believe I'm saying this but Intellivision should sell all remaining properties to Neo Atari.
On the verge? I think its been dead for a while. The whole idea was a bad one to begin with... The original Intellivision was a niche system. It's not like the Atari systems (and it's not like the new VCS is breaking any sales records).
Good video! This story just keeps going on and on! Looks like it might be the end of Amico! What they have done to the Intellivsion name, is awful! Shame on them!
I totally expected the Amico would be a bigger failure than the VCS! If some of those exclusives come to other platforms, they will need some tweaking in order to fair better on any other platform, assuming it's possible. If Intellivision gets acquired by Atari, then they probably would fair better, I guess.
I mean the fact they are making people use 2 phones to play a game is just insane. I thought this was supposed to be simple pick and play. They should have just done a simple handheld plug and play with the few new games they have bundled with older ones and call it a day. Make it it a handheld that looks like the amico controller that you can hook up to a tv. That would be still been a disaster but better then home.
Uh oh! The guy who admitted to living in his mother's basement loves Amico Home. I guess that disproves everything you said in the video. 🤣Now all we're missing is Pedro the pedo calling people haters and Puzzler moving the goalposts yet again.
PuzZLeR…Relic Lamer…”Amico Home is the human experience that the world needs anyway. In fact, Tommy’s vision for his system project was really going in that direction since day 1…May 29, 2018.”
@@F1JV This coming out is the worst thing that could happen for them, because now everyone can see what a lame experience the Amico was always destined to be.
@@F1JV Puzzler almost sounds like a troll. Claims to be interested in buying out the Intellivision comany, and also doing a university project/paper on Amico.
@@SomeOrangeCat …I cannot believe how long this saga has gone on for…wow. The 17+ million dollar question is…”will Tommy’s system project fiasco ever end?”
For $150 in 2020, they couldn't have taken my money fast enough. I'm just glad I don't trust Kickstarter type fundraisers. In 2023 I have no interest in this at zero dollars. This always had a kind of Ouya feel, except the Ouya actually came out, then failed.
I have been checking the UK play store, and I came to the same conclusion seeing the app vs controller vs games figures. I assumed the pathetic numbers I am seeing were just the UK sales..... Nope! Those 50+ sales are the *global* sales figures 😮🚀🚀🤡
All Tommy and Co needed to do was release an HD, modern tech, plug-n-play Intellivision mini with all the top games and some exciting new ones, but hubris and incompetence was all they were capable of achieving, which quickly morphed this ill-conceived project into a full-blown scam.
Slandering the company name isn't helping anyone. Amico isn't a scam. That idea comes from UA-camrs making clickbait.
@@LelandReview No, it became a scam when they lied about how far along they were in order to secure more investment. Every subsequent lie about how close they were to release only for the can to be kicked down the road only made that worse. I have no doubt they set out to make the console, it wasn't started as a scam, but it became one through their sheer incompetence.
Nah. It was a scam. The multiple rounds of public funding and lying to investors proved it.@@LelandReview
@@LelandReview IE raised more than $17 million in capital and still couldn't successfully launch their product. No matter how dubious you feel the Amico is as at a conceptual level, you must admit that the endeavor itself was egregiously mishandled.
@@segastardust8836 How Intellivision managed to raise far more money than Atari while having a fraction of its the brand power is beyond me.
They have absolutely destroyed the Intellivision name. Absolutely shameful
Notice that Amico content gets the most views on UA-cam. And a lot of people are loving it more then ever. It's only a handful of people complaining and crying wolf.
@@LelandReviewHow much did they pay you to say this? 😂
@@LelandReviewthe only reason Amico gets any attention at all, is because of how giant of a s*it show the entire debacle has been.
@@sebastiann.8088 Tommy helped me get my UA-cam channel going years before Amico was announced. By watching my vids and leaving great feedback. So I do try and return the favor when I can. Working for Intellivision one day would be like a dream come true.
@@Jeffmetal42 Ya could be , people can't look away from a train wreck. But I think its also because love him or hate him Tommy really got the word out that Amico exists. People are dying for it to save gaming.
Meanwhile, Atari is on their second console with the 2600+, and Blaze is on their 4TH Evercade revision. HOW!?!!?!?!
Funny that Atari coming out with two garbage systems is more successful than Amico ever was.
A sad and pathetic end for a once respected brand. Maybe Atari will buy out their catalog and restore the brand and heritage.
I re-watched their pre-order gameplay trailer of 2020 and it's kind of sad. There's many games I'd like to play and never came out, in particular the Mike Mika games (Cloudy Mountain and Night Stalker remakes), Breakout, that dolphin game made by the Ecco guys, even Skiing, to name a few. Many honest and good devs were left in the cold when the company took a bad turn. I hope they can actually manage to release these games somehow because some were almost complete.
@@ccricers I agree.
Over a week has passed since the released of the Amico Home apps and the buzz has been quite low. The fact that the controller app have less of a half downloads compared with the main app tells everything.
Doesn't help the fact that no only the games are having way less downloads. I mean, those games are waaaaay too expensive.
I think they are using that price point to eventually offer “$100” of games to pre-order victims.
And you need two devices to play these games.....
1k downloads for Amico Home, 500 downloads for The Amico Controller, and 50 downloads for Missile Command and Astrosmash. Despite this, Leland will continue to pretend as if Amico Home has been a huge success. He's on literally every single Amico video trying desperately to spin Amico Home as a success despite the overwhelming proof that it's not. I don't think he's trying to convince us, he's trying to convince himself.
Love the Minus One comparison. I've also heard that it was even less than 15 million for that movie. Just goes to show you when you understand business and plan efficiently you can succeed. Tommy flat out didn't understand the console market and tried to conflate it with the mobile market, he blew millions on empty office space because he was a pandemic denier, and thought he could get away with it by cozying up to youtubers.
The sales will come when they release Earthworm Jim 4!
🙄
So this is basically the FyreFest of videogame consoles...
Its gonna be very difficult for the Amico faithful to spin this as a positive, but you just know that they're gonna try!
They will.... 😂
I'm playing Amico and love it
@@robbieadams9837we got one in the comments named Leland 😂
@@LelandReview Of course you are...that's why you've got the time to look for critical videos and leave multiple comments to defend this mess. Who are you trying to convince, us or yourself?
@@dennett316 He's a literal basement dwelling conspiracy theorist. His mom's money probably paid for his copy of the games.
We are on the launch pad!
The only viable "strategy" for Intellivision Entertainment at this point is to file for Chapter 11 and sell their entire portfolio of IPs. Guarantee you Atari would buy the entire catalogue (for the right price).
The Amico Home is a clumsily disguised way of surreptisiously fulfilling preorders before they inevitably file for bankruptcy. At least UA-camrs will be able to confirm that the Amico library wasnt going to be worth the asking price for the hardware.
This is the result of the failure of management. In project management, the scope of work, and the agreement with the designer must all be crystal clear, and communication between one another must be clear. If they followed these principles, this would have never happened. Scope of work, fit for the jobs based on experience were all obviously unclear, communication between departments were very unclear, thus resulting in devastating consequences. After taking a class in project management, there aren't any guesses as to why they failed. Managing projects is a big deal, and such miscommunications are the costliest mistakes any company can make...
As a bystander not interested in purchasing this, it appears to be a scam
It's been a scam from the word go. The original point of the project was to entice someone into buying them out before they had to produce anything. That didn't happen. Thus began a long saga of kicking the can down the road.
It is. 😊
The "Intellivision" brand has so much negative baggage from the Amico/T.T. dumpster fire that I don't think anyone is willing to take the risk. The hole is so deep it's gonna take so much time, energy, resources, and money to dig it out and repair all the damage. Why not invest in something that's not carrying all that baggage right from the start?
Amico home is just a cop out to avoid paying Suddesh and to keep scamming investors so they dont file for lawsuits. 😢
50 people downloads? That's less than the number of investors into the system.
Pure panic mode and damage control mode. Their layers billing them generously to advise them on how to avoid the next action class lawsuit.
It's always been a scam.
How so ? If its a scam why am I having so much fun playing it ?
@@LelandReviewcause you are a very, VERY, simple minded individual.
@@Jeffmetal42 Thanks ! Simplistic is the way to go
@@LelandReview you have so much playing with yourself and your partner tells you that's a scam 😏
Have faith in John, every pre-order will be delivered by Santa this Christmas 🎁🎁🎁
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I wanted to try it, but I don't know how, as I can't have the home and controller app running on the same phone. Don't know where I should install the home app.
You need another phone or tablet to install the Home app, then the controller app on another phone. They either didn't have the talent to port it properly, or were too lazy, so this was the sloppy solution they came up with to try to claw a few more dollars from people. Don't fall for it. If you pre-ordered, get your refund and don't claim these games. If you didn't, and still want to try these games, they're available on PC and Switch ( I believe). Search for their names to find a list of availability. Amico Home is a dead end not worth investing into.
wheres oeb pete at? and rab, and all these guys that said it was coming out that "fruitful christmas" remember
It's crazy that Tommy raised 17M then wasted all that money on useless stuff instead of actually making the consoles, now he's scraping the barrel by selling ip rights and lame roms on mobile and people still try to defend the whole thing.
If you're this delusional you deserve to be scammed... there are hundreds of tiny startups that raised a fraction of that money but delivered the product they promised.
I mentioned how complicated this app is to setup and operate on the Amico fan page on FB... And I have Karen Amico shill cry to the administrators that my comment is hurtful LOL....
Intellivison is dead
Mattel should have stuck with handheld LED football/baseball/basketball etc…then this fiasco would have never happened.
Being cereal.
Another great video NSG. I downloaded the Amico Home app on my phone for just the curiosity and I never planned on buying anything through the app. Imagine my surprise when, shockingly, the app boots up and I am immediately stopped at the home page by a pop-up telling me that I can't continue forward unless I have the controller app loaded onto another phone or tablet. I feel so much rage and confusion because this is the failure of Intellivison and the Amico all wrapped up in one incredibly stupid idea that has some of the worst user friendliness in any technological system in the past two decades. How do you screw up one of the most basic ideas of creating a phone app? This is worse than Ubisoft managing to screw up Tetris. At least Tetris has so many versions to choose from and even programming friendly to those who want try their hands at it.
Sorry for the rant there but Intellivision is dead. I can't believe I'm saying this but Intellivision should sell all remaining properties to Neo Atari.
is it me, or did they fail to seize on the opportunity and announce that they secured Plankton from Nickelodeon for the Amico Home?
Shark Shark is 1.99 on Xbox as of this message
Still overpriced, if you ask me.
On the verge? I think its been dead for a while. The whole idea was a bad one to begin with... The original Intellivision was a niche system. It's not like the Atari systems (and it's not like the new VCS is breaking any sales records).
Good video! This story just keeps going on and on! Looks like it might be the end of Amico! What they have done to the Intellivsion name, is awful! Shame on them!
The imagination station 😂😂😂
A scam lasted that too long!
I totally expected the Amico would be a bigger failure than the VCS! If some of those exclusives come to other platforms, they will need some tweaking in order to fair better on any other platform, assuming it's possible. If Intellivision gets acquired by Atari, then they probably would fair better, I guess.
I mean the fact they are making people use 2 phones to play a game is just insane. I thought this was supposed to be simple pick and play. They should have just done a simple handheld plug and play with the few new games they have bundled with older ones and call it a day. Make it it a handheld that looks like the amico controller that you can hook up to a tv. That would be still been a disaster but better then home.
Uh oh! The guy who admitted to living in his mother's basement loves Amico Home. I guess that disproves everything you said in the video. 🤣Now all we're missing is Pedro the pedo calling people haters and Puzzler moving the goalposts yet again.
PuzZLeR…Relic Lamer…”Amico Home is the human experience that the world needs anyway. In fact, Tommy’s vision for his system project was really going in that direction since day 1…May 29, 2018.”
@@F1JV This coming out is the worst thing that could happen for them, because now everyone can see what a lame experience the Amico was always destined to be.
@@F1JV Puzzler almost sounds like a troll. Claims to be interested in buying out the Intellivision comany, and also doing a university project/paper on Amico.
@@SomeOrangeCat …I cannot believe how long this saga has gone on for…wow. The 17+ million dollar question is…”will Tommy’s system project fiasco ever end?”
@@F1JV At least we know none of these guys will be able to work in the industry again.
Just close shop and refund our prebuy money.
10/10/20
Beating a dead horse. I can't wait for the Netflix movie.
For $150 in 2020, they couldn't have taken my money fast enough. I'm just glad I don't trust Kickstarter type fundraisers.
In 2023 I have no interest in this at zero dollars. This always had a kind of Ouya feel, except the Ouya actually came out, then failed.
Ouya didn't fail. The company even had a successful sale. People are still playing Ouya online today.
You are right, people are playing Ouya online today. How much money are the developers making from it though.@@LelandReview
So After I switched to iPhone I've had zero problems with my phone. I always had problems with my lg phones and Samsung phones and tablet
I have been checking the UK play store, and I came to the same conclusion seeing the app vs controller vs games figures.
I assumed the pathetic numbers I am seeing were just the UK sales..... Nope! Those 50+ sales are the *global* sales figures 😮🚀🚀🤡
Yet, according to a couple of very delusional commenters, we are to believe that this is somehow still a success.