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Evercade loses interest in 80s and 90s games
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Christian Cawley
July 28, 2024
Hi, I hope you’re having a good weekend.
Aside from a bit of time in the sun, I’ve spent it playing the new rerelease of Steel Empire & Over Horizon, which you’ll find reviewed below. I’ve also included some thoughts about the recent interview with Blaze Entertainment’s Andrew Byatt and Dominic Wheatley concerning the future of the Evercade, which we’ll kick off with below.
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The future of Evercade is ignoring the past
A recent interview on MCV with Blaze’s Andrew Byatt and chairman Dominic Wheatley has revealed an intention to march on into 21st century platforms like the PS3 and Xbox 360.
Dominic: There will be a time, in three or four years, when the hardware will be upgraded, the chips will be a bit cheaper, and they will be able to do PlayStation 3 games and Xbox games and so you’ll march in step with with the industry as it gets older.
Andrew: We’ve got different hardware, but essentially it’s the same generation of cartridges, so whether you have the original handheld, the EXP, the new EXP-R, or the Super Pocket, it’s all completely consistent so you can play all those games. And as Dominic says, the 32-bit/64-bit era is where we top out on hardware at the moment.
But hold on a minute. Aren’t they forgetting something?
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