Let's All Point And Laugh At The Rubbish NFT Console

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I’m really not sure why NFT people want to get into gaming. Sure, gaming is a highly profitable industry with a huge and often impressionable marketplace and is already indelibly linked to advancements in technology… okay, I see exactly why NFT people want to get into gaming. But gaming is such an incredibly difficult thing to get right that I’m struggling to understand crypto’s obsession with the medium. Now there’s a crypto console, the Polium One, and I’m not sure how all of these people who are smart enough to make millions of pictures of ugly monkeys can be stupid enough to get everything so wrong.

Breaking into gaming via the console racket is extremely difficult. Microsoft muscled in only through operating at a loss for years. Google and Amazon, the two kings of capitalism, both failed. An NFT console is just about the stupidest pitch I can imagine. A console made of cheese that runs games made of strawberries sounds like a better idea. Every time an NFT bro talks about taking a gun from Call of Duty and dropping it in Fortnite, it not only sounds incredibly boring, it also shows a complete misunderstanding for how game engines work and communicate with assets, not to mention a lack of appreciation for artstyle. It’s like that scene in Inception where Joseph Gordon-Levitt has a gun, and Tom Hardy tells him “you mustn’t be afraid of dreaming a little bigger darling,” and then produces… a slightly different gun.

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Of course, that’s no surprise. There is zero creativity in the NFT game, and that’s because they’re all out to make a quick buck. Grit, the terrible NFT game supposed to blow our minds (but is really the thinnest Red Dead knock off with