Weird those two specs have disappeared! Especially the TouchID, strange that they're walking back what would have been a pretty amazing feature - Apple's proprietary hardware system for fingerprint identification that they have never ever ever licensed to anyone else. That was a pretty cool selling point, I wonder what happened? Even with what stands, I'm not sure a box that appears to be about 20cm x 15cm x 5cm is going to push all those bits easily. And by "not sure" I mean I think I've got a better chance of having a white Christmas in Western Australia than anyone being able to create a device that can do that in time for a 2024 release. ## Release Ready They've currently just finished the console design section of [Polium's roadmap](https://www.polium.com/#roadmap) and are now on to hardware development. Then they'll do software development. With a Q3 2024 release, I'm going to conservatively say there's at least 6 months of manufacturing. quality assurance, and let's not forget getting it certified by all those different countries before shipping. They expect to develop a novel console that is Completely Unhackable™ from scratch in 18 months. Don't forget, they don't even have rough specs for it. They just say it will be a CPU/GPU from NVIDIA and an entirely custom build, which definitely isn't the kind of thing that takes a long time for development. ## Games There are no current game partnerships announced. They're in talks though! ## Leaderboard Back to [their Medium post](https://medium.com/@Polium_/polium-one-the-worlds-first-multi-chain-gaming-console-5052a44594c8) and they have a cool idea of a unified world leaderboard! > We want to build a console where winning and losing count so we came up with the idea to combine all compatible games into 1 leaderboard. We already have enough difficulties picking a global "winner" in any one game. Like you might be #1 in Deathmatch but does that make you better or worse than the #1 in King Of The Hill mode? Now how do we rank you agaainst the Tetris world champion? And are they above or below [the guy who beat Sim City 3000](https://www.vice.com/en/article/4w4kg3/the-totalitarian-buddhist-who-beat-sim-city)? Thankfully Polium One has already worked out how to do do this in their leaderboard. What else gets you on the leaderboard? > Players will move up the leaderboard by winning, earning trophies, and voting on proposals. Aside from the concept that gaming as something to "win" is a flawed understanding of the totality of games and reverts to regressive view of what the medium is capable of, it's good to know I can also vote on proposals to be the most 31337. I'm so glad the [soulful whimsy of hedge fund managers](https://web.archive.org/web/20230522203653/https://gawker.com/culture/the-future-is-useless-expensive) is coming to revolutionise the way we game. ## Final NoteOh wow, 8K 120fps with ray tracing and HDR?
— Hello, Mr. Edwards | #JusticeForActMan (@hellomredwards) July 4, 2022
That totally doesn't sound completely impossible for an independent studio to do on a system that small (completely ignoring the NFT bullshit and the fact that you're using stolen game artwork in your promotional material)... pic.twitter.com/b0sDAt7Xzu
My "we did not copy the GameCube logo" tweet has a lot of people asking questions already answered by my tweet.1️⃣ We did not copy the Nintendo’s GameCube logo. There are multiple companies that are using a similar logo. But we will illustrate a new logo that is original.
— Polium (@Polium__) July 4, 2022