We are ready to give the full picture of status and ship timelines for controller, console, and games. If you don’t have time to read it all, here is the high level. Otherwise, lots of details are here for those interested.
M64 console, controller, and our launch games will be shipping at the end of July from our warehouse in Southern California. This means that fully certified consoles are already being loaded into our warehouse here now.
We get many questions about whether it makes sense to wait for M64 vs alternates. You should wait. Here are some features that make M64 different:
Lowest MSRP by far (even after early bird pricing ends)
5-second boot to game
Wireless OTA updates available out of the box
16nm process node AMD ultrascale+ FPGA
Fanless (noiseless) thermal design
PSRAM architecture allows M64 to unlock significantly higher overclocking
Full UI control from console
In-house designed controller and games for deep integration
Chromatic video passthrough, Chromatic transfer pak (post-ship update)
Designed to be taken apart easily with no adhesives
FPGA core will be open-sourced upon launch
Many more just-for-fun features: cart eject button, LED uplighting, etc.
The controller will be by far the best value pro-level controller available on the market for any console. Read more below in the controller section.
As you have come to expect in Chromatic, we will continue working to offer physical games (both new and remastered) for this platform for years to come.
We are already directly funding the development of brand new M64 games as well. Some are already months into development.
Dozens of pre-production consoles are already in the hands of testers. After these testers and reviewers receive our latest updates and their M64 controllers, they will be allowed to release their reviews of the ecosystem...
