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Alright, I'll bite, since you've been ignoring me since E3 last year anyway...

Farkle and Cornhole? Seriously, Tommy? What in the world makes you think for one brief moment that these are "good" pack-in titles that'll help you sell systems?

For starters, the people who play Farkle aren't going to go out and buy a new $250 console to play it on. Chances are they already play it on Facebook or through a Mobile App on their phone - nobody's going to fall all over themselves to get a new way to play Farkle.

And Cornhole makes zero sense unless your controllers are motion sensitive, much like the Nintendo Wii/Wii-U. #1, most adults are going to want to play Cornhole IRL. They'll either go to their local dive bar and play, or spend the $20 total it takes to literally make your own from raw materials.

These titles just don't make sense. In fact, they make about as much sense as the group of finely-bearded hipster Millennials you dragged into your E3 cubicle while me - a Gen Xer who actually owned a classic Intellivision, AKA the only market you're ever going to hope to reach out of the gate - sat ouside. Farkle and Cornhole aren't going to lure them into spending $250 on a new console, and they're most certainly not going to get the nostalgia factor unless they're among the absolute oldest 1% of Millennials who actually physically remember ANY of the 1980s.

I get that D&D and Tron titles are out of the question, unless you're willing to deal with Wizards of the Coast or the Disney Juggernaut. And if you're mocking up cheap versions of games people already widely play elsewhere and don't need a whole new console for, chances are you don't intend to even attempt to release "Cloudy Mountain," "Deadly Discs" or "Maze-A-Tron."

Even with the above, you still have DOZENS of classic titles to pack in with the system. And they'll attract your only truly viable initial market: Former Intellivision owners. Space Hawk, Star Strike, B-17 Bomber, Utopia, Night Stalker... None of these are pack-in titles, yet I played the CRAP out of them in the early 80s, and so did every other Intellivision owner I knew.

None of them played "Cornhole," we actually called it bean bag toss. Cornhole is just... Yeah. Eww, no. And Farkle wasn't even a word back then, let alone a mindless microtransaction vortex of addictive, repetitive inanity.

What's the thought process behind this, exactly?