There will always be cynical articles predicting doom and gloom.
Perhaps it will fail, but there are some big names behind it like Yves Behar whom I’m sure wouldn’t want to be involved in a kickstarter scam.
I’d like to stay optimistic about this.
They get 30% of every purchase and each game is try-before-you-buy. I’m curious whether they will manage to go with profit.
On another note their Kickstarter pledges have more or less died off now, going from ~700,000 pledges/24 hours to somewhere around ~7,000 pledges/24 hours. It’s pretty much losing 99% of their Kickstarter-pledge-momentum.
Perhaps all the people interested bought the first day. 4M is quite the pool of money.
It was my understanding that the first couple days and the last couple days are the most intense for a lot of Kickstarter projects. They’ve also already exceeded the goal quite a bit which might be discouraging some from donating.
It ain’t over til the fat lady sings.
Last time I checked last night it was 4.45M and now its 4.67M. It’s still over 200k at around 17-19hours timeline.
Personally I would just run away with it.
With 4.7 million dollars I could get quad SLI of 4 watercooled Geforce GTX 680’s with 4GB VRAM and still have around 4.68 million left! I’m so economic!
You’d probably find that driver problems would prevent you from actually playing anything… 
I advise you to spend 100k at least of a mean legal team, and another 50k on tax advice.
20K on hardware? That’s a little steep.
I estimated a $1000 cost per card + “misc”. Indeed, I think I overestimated “misc” a bit. =S
18-card SLI with the rest on “misc” 
Even if only I got 1M, I would still quit world boring life and went andventure!
Why would you need such awesome hardware when you could just get an ouya for 99$? 
Cost of goods on the Nexus 7 is 199 USD. I’m really not seeing this happen at 99 USD.
Big touch screen and good battery cost a lot. They have around 9months before they start selling it and that brings cost down even more.
The lion’s share of the cost is gotta be the integrated nvidia chip…so that has to come down.
Its cost about 25$ for nvidia according from that. http://news.softpedia.com/news/Nvidia-Tegra-3-Costs-Between-15-25-11-3-to-18-9-Says-Company-236695.shtml
Tegra 3 is about $25…
One thing that brings down costs a lot is that it doesn’t have to be crammed in a tiny little case, so you can use cheaper conventional production methods.
Also: no big OLED touch screen (the most expensive component), no tiger glass, no battery, no 3G/4G antenna, no SIM slot, no speaker.
What I’m more worried about is the controller. Sure there are $10 controllers from China, but they can’t exactly be described as “a love letter to games”.
EDIT: pitbuller beat me to it
Production runs of custom boards are still going to be pricey unless you do it in very large batches. Then again if the Pi can sell for 25 quid, the costs must have come way way down. Still lots of externalities to consider though, like “where are the games?”, because “if you build it they will come” is their model, they’re still as sunk as the Bismarck.
[quote]Production runs of custom boards are still going to be pricey unless you do it in very large batches.
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Don’t you consider a budget for more than 48000 units a large batch?