i was reading about the speccy vega+ handheld kickstarter type project (indiegogo), the story seems to be something like:
the project was backed (pre-orders) a few years ago so everyone paid and the company making them had about half a million quid. but then they took too long to make anything (years), so the company (which was half made up of some guys called 'retro computers', and the other half sinclair themselves (owned by sky)), well the sinclair side of the project pulled out and said they dont want anything to do with this embarrassing disaster project anymore, and sinclair(sky) told the 'retro computers' company that they have until early august 2018 to get the handhelds to the customers who have been waiting years for their handhelds to come, or else 'retro computers' will no longer be allowed to use the sinclair name at all on the handheld.
so, 'retro computers' literally ran out of time and so just shipped a run of the handhelds out even though they were still not finished, so the dpad is unfinished and unresponsive unless you push really hard on it, button art not printed properly or professionally, there are only a handful of random unheard of games to be found on the handheld, no manual/instructions, no instructions on how to add more games, and on top of that, not even proper packaging (they were shipped to buyers in a cardboard box with no padding in it!)
basically 'retro computers' ran out of time and just had to ship out whatever they had done, so the vega+ finished up as an unfinished product
couple of vids showing the 'finished' handheld:
http://youtu.be/k9i2aBPKiRw?t=1m36s
http://youtu.be/gv6GR9Q3oFY
..but... *plot twist* it looks like the buyers get the last laugh as many of them are putting their vega+ straight on ebay.. (they had cost the original buyers £100 new):
joe342018-08-08 19:43:50
the project was backed (pre-orders) a few years ago so everyone paid and the company making them had about half a million quid. but then they took too long to make anything (years), so the company (which was half made up of some guys called 'retro computers', and the other half sinclair themselves (owned by sky)), well the sinclair side of the project pulled out and said they dont want anything to do with this embarrassing disaster project anymore, and sinclair(sky) told the 'retro computers' company that they have until early august 2018 to get the handhelds to the customers who have been waiting years for their handhelds to come, or else 'retro computers' will no longer be allowed to use the sinclair name at all on the handheld.
so, 'retro computers' literally ran out of time and so just shipped a run of the handhelds out even though they were still not finished, so the dpad is unfinished and unresponsive unless you push really hard on it, button art not printed properly or professionally, there are only a handful of random unheard of games to be found on the handheld, no manual/instructions, no instructions on how to add more games, and on top of that, not even proper packaging (they were shipped to buyers in a cardboard box with no padding in it!)
basically 'retro computers' ran out of time and just had to ship out whatever they had done, so the vega+ finished up as an unfinished product
couple of vids showing the 'finished' handheld:
http://youtu.be/k9i2aBPKiRw?t=1m36s
http://youtu.be/gv6GR9Q3oFY
..but... *plot twist* it looks like the buyers get the last laugh as many of them are putting their vega+ straight on ebay.. (they had cost the original buyers £100 new):
joe342018-08-08 19:43:50
