When console releases become comedy - Soulja Boy edition 🇸🇪

It can certainly be argued that I would be extremely amused and you should preferably not laugh at your own jokes (unless your name is Peter Wahlbeck, of course). Fixed... The joke, on the other hand, is not mine, and actually it is probably most tragic. But as I laughed today when I wrote the news about the artist Soulja Boy's new console.

For almost ten years, this gentleman has regularly tried to launch his own consoles, and always chooses something that stretches the laws, complete with extortionate prices and then spices it up with statements that have made countless sloppy politicians appear as the greatest truth-tellers of all time. Like the time it was Soulja Boy's hardware that made Reggie Fils-Aime resign from Nintendo, or that time when Atari wanted to give him one and a half billion dollars, or when he said that his pirate devices are legal stuff.

Every time he's been on the go, it's shut down very quickly, and once he almost got Nintendo on his neck, which is something you should definitely watch out for. Their patience with copyright infringement is something you are best measured in nanometers.

Now he's on the move again and has taken the Retroid Pocket Flip 2, without their knowledge despite it being a patented device, and says it's his console - whereupon the price has more than doubled. And it apparently has "Sonic, TikTok, Instagram and everything ya need."

Retroid has of course not approved of this and I guess that the device SouljaGame Flip, which he calls "his" stolen model, will soon go up in smoke - as will all his other ventures. And probably it's only a matter of time before he's up and running again, and I get the pleasure of laughing to report on yet another China device he claimed as his own, dusted at a completely obscene price on and then sold to his fans via social media. I'm already longing.

It doesn't sound like Soulja Boy will take over the gaming world this time either. But maybe next time (picture from his website where you can buy the device for over twice the normal price)?