Both Indiegogo and Kickstarter have proved to be invaluable sources for retro-themed projects over the coming years, allowing both small ideas to flourish and industry veterans to revive brands such as Shenmue. One of the more ambitious projects as of late though has fallen flat on its face after an embarrassing campaign.

The Retro VGS was Retro Media Network's dream to create an all new console for today's market that relied on everything we know and love about our gaming past. While on paper the idea sounded fantastic, the team's reliance on archaic distribution models and a lack of foresight overall has brought the project to a grinding halt.

Having launched just mere days ago, the project garnered next to no interest whatsoever and struggled to raise more than 3% of its $2,000,000 target with less than 200 interested backers. This failure was most likely down to the console's rise in cost (coming close to PlayStation 4 / Xbox One price tags) and growing concerns over their approach to bug ridden games being released. What didn't help either was that the campaign naively launched without a working prototype in sight, leaving countless gamers reluctant to invest heavy into something unknown.

With all of this in mind, gamers disappointed in Retro Media Network have posted countless scathing write-ups and video blogs discussing the Retro VGS. With plenty of in depth analysis pieces covering the console's unfortunate flaws, the Retro VGS team made one last attempt to save the campaign through interviews to no avail.

Following this failure, the team behind the console have since closed the campaign and deemed it 'dead in the water'. While this may be the case for the Retro VGS's failed attempt, we have faith in the future that such a feat could be pulled off with the right research and resources set in place beforehand.

Link: Retro VGS Campaign at Indiegogo



