Capcom Home Arcade console - £200, 16 games and a "funky" design - launching 25 October

jawafour wrote:
Qikz wrote:There's not enough games on it to justify the cost. Just look at how many games you get with the beat em up collection which is incredible.

Sure, I'd like to have seen a greater number of games on it, too. But I wonder if folk are just comparing game numbers to, say, the NES mini or the Mega Drive mini? The hardware in this - in terms of the controls - is a league above anything else in the console space. As I said, comparable sticks for other systems can be 150 to 200 dollars on their own.

This is, I feel, a niche product for hardcore Capcom fans; high quality at a premium price. It's not something for my tastes but I could understand fans being eager to get it .

The stick might be expensive but the number of games is pathetic for the cost. It wouldn’t really cost them anything extra to chuck another 20 games onto it.

It's up for pre-order at Amazon... and straight into the bestsellers list at #21

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More like Crapcom amirite.

£200, the mad bastards :lol:

They’ll release four more versions over the next six months.

£200

Only 199 Great British Dollars

Sticks etc look great but obviously the domain of rich kids and arcade enthusiasts, maybe a few gaming bars will get one.

Has anyone seen the prices people will pay for a neo geo AGS or similar original home arcade hardware. This is targeted at that. £200 is nothing to some people who will pay that for a single game.

It's not dissimilar to recent HDMI mods and the like.

Green Gecko wrote:Sticks etc look great but obviously the domain of rich kids and arcade enthusiasts, maybe a few gaming bars will get one.

Has anyone seen the prices people will pay for a neo geo AGS or similar original home arcade hardware. This is targeted at that. £200 is nothing to some people who will pay that for a single game.

It's not dissimilar to recent HDMI mods and the like.

This.

It's too rich for my blood, but for a single high-end arcade stick you'd be paying near enough £100. So £200, along with a selection of pretty decent games in what's meant to be a premium package isn't particularly unrealistic. I'd be interested to see if it comes with any other ephemera.

If you could use the hardware with other consoles, it might make a touch more sense. But, as Jawa said, that's potentially 50%-ish of the cost of a next-gen console. I mean, you could get an XBone S for that, and get £10 change. Or even get one with the UHD BR player removed and get no change. :slol:

I was going to ask, can you use it on PC as a controller? I don't fault the hardware for being expensive, but I don't get why it's a better proposition than buying a good stick as a standalone controller and using it how you like

Another £50 and you can get a Switch. Y, and, indeed, ikes.

The state of that controller

The price is good if the quality of the arcade sticks supplied holds up. Those things are not cheap.

I do wonder if you can use them on other hardware though. I'd be interested if you could.

Hound wrote:The price is good if the quality of the arcade sticks supplied holds up. Those things are not cheap.

I do wonder if you can use them on other hardware though. I'd be interested if you could.

I'm sure you could mod it if you really wanted to.

The price is pretty good for getting a dual arcade setup with Sanwa parts.

If you were building it yourself it's about £125 of buttons and sticks.

Presume this is just an SoC running a MAME emulator so someone will workout how to sideload it very quickly and you'll have a pretty decent arcade system that plays most things.

Capcom : Announces stupid looking arcade stick with a small, fixed collection of games.
SNK: Announces Neo Geo 2.

Sandy wrote:The price is pretty good for getting a dual arcade setup with Sanwa parts.

If you were building it yourself it's about £125 of buttons and sticks.

Presume this is just an SoC running a MAME emulator so someone will workout how to sideload it very quickly and you'll have a pretty decent arcade system that plays most things.

I suppose this is true, and also you could use this as a great base for an emulation arcade machine - use the guts of it housed in an upright cabinet with a hdmi monitor and you've got a simple acursste arcade machine.

Godzilla wrote:AvP being released on that only and not PS4, Xbox, pc or switch. strawberry float off Capcom. Just as you do one thing right you cant help but do a Konami and be a dick.

Also release all versions of darkstalkers and not just one.

It's like they have never heard of roms.

Utter tat

I bet you the AvP thing is caused by their licencing deal with Fox. They can probably release the game on this as it counts as an arcade machine but they'd have to pay Fox a gooseberry fool ton to actually release the thing on consoles.

It's ugly as sin, that puts me off more than the price. If they wanted to charge £200, they should have had over 20 games, that is the one thing that stands out to me (Or 25 for $250). Honestly that would not have increased the cost to them. That said if it had Cadillac's and Dinosaurs that would have probably pushed me to buy, but I would much rather have the games on PC.

Good idea, poorly executed

I think it's a product stuck in a limbo zone.

People who were the target audience for something like the NES/SNES mini and just want to have a reminisce about some of the old arcade games they remember are not interested in paying this amount of money for a "novelty" item that will not get much use.

People who are proper arcade enthusiasts will have their own machines or custom setups which they have designed to operate in the way they like and that they will prefer over this shonky design.

I'm not sure there are enough people in the space that this is targetting: someone who likes arcade games, has lots of disposable income, but hasn't already purchased or created something that gives them a better setup than this offers.

Capcom Home Arcade console - £200, 16 games and a "funky" design - launching 25 October

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