First concept images for Mad Box console's controller revealed

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After revealing the design that they are going with for their Mad Box console, Slightly Mad Studios's CEO Ian Bell took to Twitter again to unveil the first early concept designs for their console.


The controller appears to blend elements of controllers from current gen consoles, bearing an Xbox layout and a touchscreen, rather than a touch pad à la PS4 controller. It also has rear paddles somewhat akin to the Xbox One Elite and SCUF controllers. However, note that these are merely concept images and the final product might very well look totally different, and the company might even release some more possible designs in the future as it did with the console itself.

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According to them it can't be any close to that... How the hell will a current Ryzen 5 paired with a old RX480 could be compared with a future high gaming PC 3 years from now (not even a RX580 and hell not even current RX Vega)...

I bet everything they stated will backfire not being half as powerful as they picture it and being a lot pricier than Sony\M$ offering (the controller alone screams for 150$+)...

ps: And that specs I hope its nothing like the PS5, because RX480 is already around what a current gen Xbox 1 X have just without the Ryzen CPU cores which we all know every single next gen console will be Ryzen because there is no point in 2019+ to use anything lower than the already old Ryzen cores, totally no point in going with decade old buldozer like cores... And we all know Intel and Nvidia are out of the console market (I'm not even going to talk about Switch having a old mobile Nvidia SOC chip because Switch is almost competing against tablets\phones which is what most parents will probably buy to their kids as its million times cheaper and they get entertained with the shitty free android games...).
 
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PS5 specs? What?
From what I see, Nintendo only releases hardware that support other hardware that the common player can buy
But, Microsoft and Sony launch high end stuff

For example, ps4 pro and XBO X both support 4kTV, but Switch doesn't, why?
Because 4k isn't a common thing right now
Same with the wii generation
the gen started in 2005-2006 iirc
HD was a thing but not as common as now
Wii didn't support HD and XB360 and PS3 did

I bet when 4k TV will become a common thing, like here in Canada, 4k TV costs minimum around 400-500CAD

When they'll drop around 200-300CAD, maybe they'll release 4k console...
What do you think? am I in the wrong opinion?
 

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you are quite outdated, 4K tvs are already affordable, mine is from 2015 and I bought it in 2016 for 480€ and here everything is quite more expensive than USA and TV models sucks much more (we dont have the nice cheap TCL USA nice model with nice HDR).

Now HDR is the uncommon thing since even though some 400 and something cheap big tv's have it, they are nowhere even close to be HDR, it does literally nothing like most LG tv's with 250-300 of constant brightness across all scenes. The only TV I kinda had a good entry level HDR was a 700€ 49 inch TCL TV, but it has like half the brightness of the USA model and its edge lit with no backlight dimming zones. A kinda good HDR experience sadly here is around 1000€ with the latest Samsung Q6 Qled TV which even though it doesnt achieve full 1000 brightness its the best 1000€ TV here in contrast, colors, brightness...

THE PROBLEM OF 4K AND WHY IS STILL NOT A SUPER COMMON THING IS HARDWARE since even the very expensive entry level RTX2060 I think will have a hard time running some games at ultra 1080P like Squad\Post Scriptum using multi sampling to 2x (which the game actually needs as you need to be shooting pixels at high distances and its not as good looking as Frostbite, Unreal Engine 4 sucks all the performance on big wide open kind of realistic games).

I have a RX480 flashed to RX580 OC which basically is a RX580, but I can probably count with my fingers the games that actually run in 4K, most tend to run at 1440p at ultra, while a few don't even play well on 1080P (specially Unreal Engine\Crytek based games). Squad here on a lot of maps now is like 30 FPS unplayable with the mouse at ultra 1080p, no AA, no SSAO and shadows to high not even ultra, but the game even at ultra looks pretty bad already so I refuse to drop things, at least the effects are way better than BFV.
 
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From what I see, Nintendo only releases hardware that support other hardware that the common player can buy
But, Microsoft and Sony launch high end stuff

For example, ps4 pro and XBO X both support 4kTV, but Switch doesn't, why?
Because 4k isn't a common thing right now
Same with the wii generation
the gen started in 2005-2006 iirc
HD was a thing but not as common as now
Wii didn't support HD and XB360 and PS3 did

I bet when 4k TV will become a common thing, like here in Canada, 4k TV costs minimum around 400-500CAD

When they'll drop around 200-300CAD, maybe they'll release 4k console...
What do you think? am I in the wrong opinion?
Right... I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion from me questioning the absurd "PS5 spec" guess... lol

By the time the PS5 is announced we'll have better GPU technologies available that aren't what.. 5-7 years old at this point?
 
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why do people try to join the oligopoly of the console market still? especially with such crappy ideas like this. Do they enjoy wasting money?
 

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Right... I'm not sure how you reached that conclusion from me questioning the absurd "PS5 spec" guess... lol

By the time the PS5 is announced we'll have better GPU technologies available that aren't what.. 5-7 years old at this point?

ps4 specs were based on 2010 specs and released in 2014. ps5 specs wont be mind blowing.
 

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The weird thing is, I'm not the interested in the console, but the controller I might buy, depends on if there's something I'd be interested in, like one cool thing I could think of would be a DPS checker in games like FFXIV.
 

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why do people try to join the oligopoly of the console market still? especially with such crappy ideas like this. Do they enjoy wasting money?
Well it might be a Scam, but since they are already a known company I think it won't be a scam, they will probably deliver something even though it probably will be quite below the expectation...
that is by far the most hideous fucking controller i've ever seen! i thought the ps3 boomerang looked bad but we have a new winner! :rofl2:
Gosh I hated that controller way more than what they shown...

But their desig could have been the most craziest controller ever if they just copied the X360 round shape instead of just the main shape with that strange ugly extreme sharp edges ;), they ruined it.

Still I'm almost sure everything is prone to changes if they want to release this quite a few time from now, even their chosen final design I still don't think it will be that final...
An RX480 is still well below what we should expect. It's not much better in terms of power than the One X... That'd just be sad.
Totally agreed, why release a high end Next Gen console with a few years old GPU in it... And since they are most likely keep using a SOC design, they will need to go with some custom designs, I don't think using old RX480 stock GPU die could apply as re-usable to make it into a new custom SOC either, so they can buy something more modern at a good price...
 
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Well it might be a Scam, but since they are already a known company I think it won't be a scam, they will probably deliver something even though it probably will be quite below the expectation...

Gosh I hated that controller way more than what they shown...

But their desig could have been the most craziest controller ever if they just copied the X360 round shape instead of just the main shape with that strange ugly extreme sharp edges ;), they ruined it.

Still I'm almost sure everything is prone to changes if they want to release this quite a few time from now, even their chosen final design I still don't think it will be that final...

Totally agreed, why release a high end Next Gen console with a few years old GPU in it... And since they are most likely keep using a SOC design, they will need to go with some custom designs, I don't think using old RX480 stock GPU die could apply as re-usable to make it into a new custom SOC either, so they can buy something more modern at a good price...
they made what 5 or 6 racing games and thats about it, i wouldnt go as far as saying they are a known company, even many independent studios made more games than they did lol and they never made any hardware to begin with.
 
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And the only one that are really from them is probably Project Cars since the NFS they were just unknown dev team working for EA monopoly, the others I never really cared... But even Project Cars has Bandai Namco, which I don't know how it works for both in terms of cash since the game started at fund raising by the community and only way later came to steam and then consoles...

But at least in the racing community they are well known since Project Cars even though they are not big.

Thats why I don't think it will be a scam, but just lagging behind what they claim ;).
 

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why do people try to join the oligopoly of the console market still? especially with such crappy ideas like this. Do they enjoy wasting money?
>Uses fancy word without knowing what it means to try to sounds intelligent

The console market wouldn't be an oligopoly if more people would do exactly what they are doing; trying to put new ideas on the table. Are those ideas "crappy"? Only time will tell, but at least someone is trying. Will it fails? If there's no solid exclusive first party game, most probably.
 
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Yeah, while I understand some skepticism, some of it is a bit extreme.
A company with no apparent/named backers, no hardware experience, and only a handful of games under their belt (though it does include an engine made in house) announces a console without anything resembling specs, without developer backing, without a price point, without a clear plan for where they envisage its place in the market (so far we have it will be high end), later teases a shell design and later still teases a controller concept with some questionable features...
I would ask how can we not be sceptical.

I would say the market is in a position right now where we could see an upstart (I am half expecting tencent to do something at some point, or maybe someone to properly crack this android console business) but I have no indication and many doubts that these guys could be it.
 
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A company with no apparent/named backers, no hardware experience, and only a handful of games under their belt (though it does include an engine made in house) announces a console without anything resembling specs, without developer backing, without a price point, without a clear plan for where they envisage its place in the market (so far we have it will be high end), later teases a shell design and later still teases a controller concept with some questionable features...
I would ask how can we not be sceptical.
They have three years, but I wouldn't be mad or surprised if they delay it.

Anyway, I'm not saying not to be sceptical. Really towards the people that are basically saying "why are they even trying?".
 

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