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Corporate tax rate in America is 35%, but as an LLC their tax burden simply passes through to the owner, so they pay normal taxes as an individual. However, income taxes need only apply to actual profit. The money they spend making the devices can be claimed as expenses which are deducted from...

So their excuse is that they shouldn't start PCB design now because the stretch goals make components of it unknown? How convenient. It seems to me that only a couple of the goals even really have an impact on PCB design anyway and the first one they quickly passed. I have no idea if they can...

PGSLab is a publicly held corporation? I can buy PGSLab stock?

It's pretty bad but OTON is a whole different level of awful. Then again who knows, maybe PGSLab will add a stretch goal where the handheld makes games for you. The big problem with making glaring revelations and changes part way through the campaign is a lot of people will back something early...

Also in the hardcore version (and some in the lite version): Twice as much RAM LPDDR3 which is more expensive than the DDR3 in the V3 Speakers, allegedly 5 of them no less Two cameras GPS LTE data/voice communication Button backlight SSD that's not actually an SSD because that would of...

"I want to believe"

Rich experience in using portable gaming devices. Probably not as rich as that statement. I feel like I've seen this before. Some people who want to sell a design on the strength of their hobbyist enthusiasm and passion, as if that's really all you need. Oh, but they're "excellent experts" too...

I feel bad for the people who are holding out for this updated prototype to be released before the campaign is over.. we all know it's just going to be another mockup that maybe tries to be more subtle. They don't have time to do a PCB or anything else really. If they were actually close to...

Yeah I agree with that feeling that they're recent grads. Only I'm skeptical that they've got anyone coming out with an electrical engineering degree. Because so far they've done nothing at all to demonstrate that ability. They might have a mechanical engineer or industrial designer who put...

The titanium cases are only supposed to be a limited run of 10 and even they don't claim to be able to do them in different colors. If anyone was going to do it I'm not surprised it was Francois Piednoel. I can't speak to his technical credentials but he's kind of a forum troll who...

Right, I shouldn't have suggested Series 5 and 5XT were in any way compatible. Series 6 was just a more significant change. The idea that pretty much anything written 15 years ago could be applied to a GPU today isn't really credible. Even the purely driver managed stuff would have changed a lot...

Where do you get this information? It's important to understand that PowerVR underwent a major architectural shift between Series 5/5XT (SGX) and Series 6 (Rogue). Changes since then have been more incremental. Even shader binaries written for Series 5 won't work on Series 6, yet alone anything...

There are titanium phones but they cost $3000+ and I'm sure have much higher volumes than 10. And phones have much simpler housing than this. I agree this is another big red flag that they don't know how to realistically budget this. This is the first time I've seen a KS's photo-realistic...

It's a big deal for floating point stuff, which doesn't apply that much to emulator code. It's also a big deal for stuff that actually auto-vectorizes well, but I'd say that in general emulator code vectorizes poorly. A lot of care has to be given to even make parts of emulators vector-friendly...

In the case of DraStic I expect both the differences in CPU power and perf/W to more than eclipse this. For the other emulators, if the difference is between 3% and 6% CPU time it doesn't really matter. This will be true for a lot of the emulators I listed, and I'm skeptical that we'll even see...

I don't think there are really that many emulators where this is true, or where it matters. I don't think you'll find more ARM optimized emulators for Saturn, N64, PSP, PS2 or Gamecube/Wii. In fact, all of Dolphin's ARM efforts will contribute nothing to Pyra because it requires AArch64 and...

By all means KS's reasoning in cancelling Laser Razor would apply here, but I doubt it'll end up happening unless it gets much more mainstream criticism. They also benefit from this not really being groundbreaking or unproven technology; it's probably something that a highend phone manufacturer...

I doubt Pandora has anything to do with it. These sorts of non-mainstream gaming handhelds have been a thing since forever. This one isn't very Pandora-esque. It doesn't even have a keyboard. You could call the second screen a keyboard facsimile but I find that dubious given the more obvious...

I'm not in any way trying to excuse or justify GPL violations. I'm simply saying that there isn't much of a convincing argument that their violations earned them money. I don't take a position against proprietary software (obviously) but I would never support or advocate software license...

No big shocker here, but they've already surpassed their KS goal. Which was set to a really quite low $100k. So this is it, unless they end up pulling the project for some reason they're now on the hook. And I fully expect this to turn into another Kickstarter tragedy with much weeping and...