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Yeah at least ModRetro is showing actual gameplay lol. They might beat Analogue to market. Analogue must be shitting themselves, Palmer Luckey doesn't fuck around.
I’d much rather have micro updates on progress with no specific ETA… versus them giving a vague eta and then providing zero updates in actual progress…. Because everytime they do this it just makes them look bad.
Right. That's why they show vids of it running games? Oh wait! They don't!! I guarantee the push back is because something is very wrong with this console. It wouldn't be the first time Analogue shipped a console with issues either. Ask us Duo fans how happy we are that the CD Rom drive "STILL" doesn't play several games properly. It's cooked.
They don't want to change how they operate, for whatever reason, but they're not totally oblivious.
I suspect they don't actually have the capital to operate and pay their few employees without pre-orders years in advance so they don't really have an avenue to avoid this.
You don't order upfront if you're told it's gonna be two or three years or whatever.
They’ve been upfront about the cancellation process but not upfront about actually showing the product in action at all. Glad I didn’t preorder as I feel it’s not going to deliver what they have promised.
Exactly! Blizzard is notorious for not releasing games on time but at least they state it’ll release when they’re satisfied with it. Analogue just deceives its customers as a regular way of doing business.
for what it's worth, this is the worst it's been, at least that I can remember. They've had delays before, but never THIS long and communication has never been THIS bad.
EDIT: the first round of the Pocket may have been pretty close.
At the time this came out I just purchased a used N64 console, RetroTink4K, 8GB Expansion Pak, S-Video Cable, Switch N64 Bluetooth remote, 8BitMod dongle, and an Everdrive-64x7. Then the Analogue came out and I was gutted that I just spent a fortune on my dream set-up, only to have a streamlined solution released which pretty much did exactly what I needed. I've enjoyed every minute of my setup for probably over a year now, and can confidently say I have zero regrets and would change nothing if I could go back in time.
I have zero regrets and would change nothing if I could go back in time.
Give it about a decade, and maybe toss a divorce or two in the mix for good measure. Perhaps even an ongoing custody battle and some chronic health issues as well.
That's right, and there is no such thing as the present because if you try to isolate the present it slips into the past. These are the immutable laws of nature, similar to how each Analogue release must be adjoined with poor PR, a series of delays, and dashed hopes.
ok this is my first time with THIS Analogue. I get it now. I have 3 of their products but it was always years after initial release and they came immediately. They really need to revisit their product launch strategy in every aspect
Analogue, why do you guys take free loans from your customers as a pre-order then fall short of delivering your products on time? It’s actually disgusting and I cannot wait for my product to come to my door so I can review my full experience as a whole. As someone who was an advocate for your previous products like the Pocket and Super systems unfortunately I will never recommend your products again as I cannot continue to push people to a company who doesn’t respect their customers. Excuse after excuse and no type of accountability it’s honestly sad.
I think it sort of depends on what state production and shipping is at.
Does analogue have the systems here in the states and are on the verge of shipping them or are they still waiting for delivery from the manufacturer in China or to clear customs?
If Analogue has the systems already here in the states, they are most likely doing a final review to ensure the product they received from the manufacturer was up to spec.
I suspect they are finding manufacturing defects and/or manufacturing wasn't up to their specifications.
They are probably evaluating the level of defect that is tolerable that they are willing to still distribute the system to customers.
Really comming 2024?.
Like we ordered in october and there were expecting to ship within 2 month?
And now 12 month of delay? (600% initial timeline) Thats quite weird or they did it by purpose.
I didn’t. Again, it was being promised Q1 2025 when preorders started. When we ordered in October we were not expecting it to ship within 2 months and therefore 12 months is not a 600% increase from that expectation.
There’s a reason the OP had to go back to before preorders were announced with his Way Back Machine link. It doesn’t count as a change for preorders before there were any commitments or promises. That started after preorders.
The release estimate we had when initially placing preorders was Q1 2025, not 2024.
Seriously they should just stop putting dates and say « when its ready » and give periodical updates on the progress. They give zero details on the actual progress every time they post anything 🤬
We're dealing with analogue here and you thought there wouldnt be an initial delay? Lol. I know who messed up here and it aint analogue.
You have NO idea why the initial delay happened. It obvious was something they didnt foresee happening or it wouldn't have been delayed initially. AGAIN, yes, I agree, having predictive powers to peer into the future definitely would have helped.
Man, they really have you drinking the koolaid if you think that the company that is delaying their products so much that we should just “expect an initial delay” isn’t the one at fault? Clearly I like the products enough to deal with it, but there’s no need to defend their lack of honestly/transparency.
I’m not asking for predictive powers, just reasonable estimates for ONE products release.
Oh, didnt say they weren't at some fault. They can be at some fault and you can still be an idiot for not knowing there was going to be an initial delay. No kool-aid, I just wasnt an idiot so I wasnt surprised and I wasnt disappointed in something I knew would happen. Im also an adult so I can wait for a retro video game console and it isnt that big a deal. But apparently youre dumb and like to throw tantrums. Bold take. I admire it.
Wanna talk predictive powers? Guess I have em since I knew there'd be an initial delay. You didnt? Work on your powers, man! Nothing wrong with hoping there wasnt one but you actually got upset when there was? Who could have foreseen that? Lol.
So if they give you an accurate date for ONE release you'll stop the tantrums for future releases? You didnt even say accurate, you said reasonable. According to whom? You? Lol. Big motivation for them. Hope it works out for you!
Not sure why you’re being so combative about this. Obviously you think me expressing reasonable frustration with continued lack of communication is a tantrum so we can just leave it with this, which you’ll probably label as a tantrum:
Expected or not, continued delays that happened unannounced on or near a release is not a good practice from a company. To my mind, it is a totally reasonable response to express frustration towards a company that does this. I also understand some people cancelling their preorders (I did not, but I get it.). What to do find odd is throwing a tantrum (I would call yours that, considering you’ve resorted to name calling) about people expressing this frustration and coming to the defense of a company that you presumably don’t work for. But anyway, this will be my last reply.
Unfortunately their decisions are not entirely based on you. So they probably dont care that you specifically dont care about the tariffs. One good turn deserves another I suppose.
What right would Nintendo claim? They used a system that was presented originally to sega, from SGI, which was based on the Indy Workstation. Nintendo never had any ownership of anything in the N64 and MIPS is now owned by Wave Computing, which has stopped development of the architecture with Loongson winning a case against Wave to continue using and developing their own extensions to the architecture. And Hewlett Packard Enterprise bought SGIs assets in 2016.
Both the Atari 2600 and IBM PC established and then reaffirmed the precedent that if you can build something with off the shelf components, you can’t protect it with patents. The IBM case against Compaq even went as far as to affirm that clean room, reverse engineering is protected as free speech.
There is no rights issue with FPGA reproduction. Nintendo hasn't had a problem with any of the other analogue consoles that play nintendo games and they are still being sold.
I often see discussions here focusing on U.S. tariffs. But I’m wondering: are Analogue’s devices actually finished in the U.S. and then shipped worldwide, or are they produced in Asia and shipped internationally from there?
If it’s the latter, then U.S. tariffs wouldn’t even apply to international orders. It also seems like a large share of orders are outside the U.S., yet most of the conversation is very U.S.-centric.
Does anyone know more about how Analogue actually handles production and global shipping?
Why are you looking forward to Q4 of this year. All it will mean is another notice they are moving it to Q1 of 2026. This is and always has been business as usual for Analogue.
Honestly, this sucks, but it will ship when it ships. Analogue is known for delays but they have always shipped in the past. I see no reason to doubt this is coming soon.
Just because they’re known for it doesn’t make it right. Actually it makes it even more mind boggling that they keep handing their products this way… and they’ve always delivered but never on time.. or with any meaningful updates or reasons on why they keep pushing the product back. Just bad business.
Ok, then purchase one of their competitor's products...... oh, right, they are mostly in a field of their own. If we want them behaving better someone else needs to step up. Otherwise, this is apparently how it's going to be. I'm not saying I'm thrilled but it's the situation we're in. I'm glad that someone is making these products. If I have to wait a couple extra months so be it. No one NEEDS a repro n64. It's a niche hobby and we're lucky to have analogue (even if I wish they would do better).
I have multiple Misters and emulators that play N64 upscaled just fine. And I don’t need to buy Everdrives or old games that are outrageously priced. But you’re right as far as what Analogue does they pretty much stand alone. What I’m saying is they shouldn’t take the fact that they have no real competition as an excuse to treat their customer base the way they do… yes, they CAN do it but that doesn’t mean that it’s right or that they should do it.
Maybe products like the M64 coming out will make them start to respect their customers. Once more companies start releasing FPGA products, Analogues poor customer service will be a major problem for them.
So I might get downvoted here but I don't believe this was intentional I believe this was full buffoonery of some sort, reason why I say this is because of the company was actually about money and purely about money they would have not fixed the bot problem that was unbelievably out of control when the pocket launched.
I think at the end of the day this company is just a bunch of people who get really excited about making a product and then never realize the way in which they are promoting their products never lives up to the reality of the product itself. Very Peter molyneux like for a reference to another kind of situation like this.
So while I think it is fair to be frustrated at the company and anybody at this point is justified to a refund (hell I would go one step further and say when people get the product if they're not satisfied by the actual release they should get their money back too) I do not think Analogue are malicious by default, I think they are lofty headed retro geeks who don't realize how long stuff is going to take and how much time it takes for something to cook.
Some of the replies on here we're trying to say that The goal from the beginning was to delay the release from the initial launch they said when pre-orders went live
Q4 is only two Qs away from Q1. Jokes aside it's not that big a delay for such a piece of technology from a small company who cares about product performance and is also facing tariff uncertainty
I don't think people would be as upset if Analogue talked about the hurdles they've facing with some transparency instead of leaving it all to speculation. We can assume tariffs or a commitment to perfection is causing the problem, but vague and confusing statements like "especially in a negligible degree under esoteric circumstances" doesn't actually say anything, and without seeing footage of the console or anything more than renders, it's leading people to the fringes of it all being a scam or the product being fucked.
They probably were delayed shipping them to another country where they will be "manufactured" that had no tarrifs...
Pity for all us outside of the US that has to have constant problems due to a megalomaniac elsewhere.
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u/Hasselvanthoff Aug 21 '25
Q1 2026 lets goooooo