Would Intellivision have been better off if they had started the production line to at least make the first batch of Amico consoles?

I wonder if the payment to Ark was actually a clever way to launder $1.35 million. After seeing Tommy's attempt to smuggle $100,000 on an international flight, should anything surprise us at this point? The payment to Ark makes no sense because they were never anywhere near manufacturing, remember this is the company that *still* doesn't have FCC certs after all this time.

They would have been better off using an off-the-shelf ARM SoC running Android paired with controllers from 8bitdo and focusing their limited resources on making a few high quality games that don't look like 2010-ish shovelware. Better yet don't even bother with hardware until you first show a long track record of profitable software. Everything was backwards in Amicoland.

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