Is Gamey a Scam? (Yes, Here’s Why) - Krazy Ken’s Tech Talk

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The Gamey console claims to offer 20,000 games for only $160? Something is not kosher here…

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00:00 Introduction
00:44 Video Ad Overview / Claims
02:00 Web Presence
03:56 Purchasing a Gamey!
05:58 What’s in the Box?!
06:45 Assemble the Team!
07:52 Gamey Hardware
10:30 First Boot / Gamey Emails Me
12:33 Gamey Software
15:53 Test: Product Quality
18:17 Test: Adding Games
19:08 Does Gamey Actually Have 20,000 Games?
20:46 PIRACY!
23:31 Sneak Peek: Next Episode

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P.S. if you watch to the end, you'll see a little sneak peek of my next episode! 👀 Release date is tentatively Nov 17! 🔔Stay tuned…

[Dazreil]

Piracy for old games might be illegal but it sure aint immoral.

Edit: I thought this comment would like most of mine would be 3 likes and that would be that. But 3 weeks later people are still commenting and liking. It’s crazy. 🤪

[aw]

The only scams are selling someone else's unit at a gigantic markup and the lie about the number of games. The unit being kinda crappy isn't really a scam.

[NoobixCube]

Yeah, the scam here is that this is not a "Gamey" or anything of the sort. It's a PowKiddy RGB20S, a solid budget performer in the emulation handheld scene, but even at time of release, the RK3326 CPU in it was a bit old, superseded by other models. Sure, they come with a whole bunch of illegally installed ROMs, and the emulators aren't optimized (the community has long-since taken care of that on this hardware though), but they aren't the scam of the "Gamey". Gamey's whole thing is making you pay twice what the thing is sold for.

Generally these emulator console companies avoid litigation by skipping first party Nintendo games on the SD card. Nintendo is the only company that is at all litigious about these things. Depending on which reseller you get it from the SD card may be loaded with first party Nintendo though, so your mileage may vary.

[OmegaZyion]

Considering that the overwhelming majority of those retro games are rarely (if ever) available for customers to buy in a convenient fashion, it's kinda hard to feel bad about companies not getting paid for something that they have no interest in providing. Piracy is more about failure of service than people wanting to get something for free.

[jendorei]

Oh wow, how righteous of you to delete all those roms. You're literally saving lives here.

[arvinrunstein]

The piracy angle is about a big a nothing burger for the retro community as it can get. I'd love for the creators to profit but lets face it without piracy there would be crater in the world of vintage gaming the size of the size of the actual world

[nicolaslacrampette]

Man, of course the roms are not licensed, I'd be surprised if even one person thought they were

[harrkev]

That is actually a solid machine for its "normal" price of around $60 to $80. It is not unexpected to have trouble with N64 or PS1 and above at that price point. But playing NES, SNES, GameBoy, DS, Genesis, and all other 8 and 16 bit systems, it is more than adequate.

[I_am_cooked_For_Life]

The crazy markup is essentially what they do with all dropshipping businesses. Even Sneakers cost a few dollars to produce in vietnam but once landed in the US storefronts, then boom,

[fromthebackseat]

“Don’t pirate old games! Just buy the original hardware for $7, 000!”

Droppshipping is the real scam here

[owngamesgamer]

arkos is not made by gamey or the original company that made the product so any of those thumbs up dont count

[the_dark_jumper]

Not gonna lie, Ken, this one's a miss. (The title in particular)
Are they resellers? Sure.
Pirates? Sure.
Scammers? Honestly, no. (Even saying they're scamming the game publishers is a stretch since no money exchanged hands here)

[miigon]

The console (PowKiddy RGB20S) 128G version retails for ~$55 USD in China btw, so the biggest scam is definitely the asking $160 for it.
Otherwise it's not too bad as a little tinkerer's toy, since it lets you install your own OS the software side of things and optimization issues can somewhat be solved as well. The screen while low in resolution, is a full-laminated IPS. And using the joycon joystick means once they drifted or break, you can find replacements pretty easily.

[omniferousswan]

imagine caring if your video games are legally obtained.

[pedroluizsouzapinto]

*I'm really impressed that someone cares about if an old game is pirated or not*

[bobn]

I own an Anbernic RG405V, RG35XX, and RG353V. Love them all. These little handheld emulators are awesome. The one you got is waayy overpriced though. The RG405V is the same price and has a 4 inch screen, 8 core Unisoc T618 Tiger cpu and 4gb of ram. It can even play ps2 games

[ryukaze]

The only THING that's a scam here is selling the device at a mark-up price. But the console itself is solid to say the least. The good thing about the "Retro" Handheld Market is that we have MANY choices than ever before.

[TheZoenGaming]

MAME is a very nice emulator but it has some issues. The primary issue is that MAME has multiple versions and ROMs aren't always compatible with different versions, so if a MAME ROM is created to work with, for instance, version 0.186, it may not work with version 0.194.

[MisterRose]

If buying is not owning, then pirating is not stealing.