When rapper Soulja Boy dropped his line of game emulator consoles, the internet arched a collective eyebrow. This, we knew, probably would not end well and lo, less than a month after launch, both the SouljaGame Handheld and SouljaGame console have been pulled from the rapper\u2019s online store.<\/b>
\nWhen rapper Soulja Boy dropped his line of game emulator consoles, the internet arched a collective eyebrow. This, we knew, probably would not end well and lo, less than a month after launch, both the SouljaGame Handheld and SouljaGame console have been pulled from the rapper\u2019s online store.
In a tweet, Soulja Boy says that he had to \u201cboss up\u201d and had no choice in the matter, possibly hinting at an impending lawsuit over licensing. This tracks with early speculation that both products looked eerily similar to knock-off, unbranded emulators sold by Chinese retailer Anbernic. While it appeared that Soulja Boy just lent his name to the devices, along with a slight markup, the emulators were still suspiciously cheap\u2014$150 for the console, $100 for the handheld. They could supposedly play Nintendo Switch, 3DS, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, Neo Geo, SEGA, NES classics, and Playstation Vita games. The console came with 800 games built-in, while the handheld had 3,000 titles.
All this raised pesky questions about licensing, with many on Twitter speculating that the great battle of 2019 would be Nintendo vs. Soulja Boy. Still, Soulja Boy was adamant throughout the month on Twitter that everything was fine and his haters could keep on hating. The musician was tweeting as recently as December 28th that licensing wasn\u2019t an issue, that his console wasn\u2019t going anywhere, and that Nintendo definitely wasn\u2019t going to sue him\u2014though the tweet itself used a slur and was subsequently deleted. Something has clearly changed since then, as his entire gaming line has vanished from the Soulja Watch store.
It\u2019s hard to feel too bad for Soulja Boy. If there\u2019s one thing the musician\/entrepreneur\/gamer knows, it\u2019s how to crank that. He\u2019s planning on launching an esports team in 2019, and his website still has plenty of knock-off Apple products available for sketchily cheap. His Soulja Watch \u2014which sells for an unfathomable $20 and ships from either Russia or China\u2014is still available, as are his SouljaPhone, Soulja Headphones, SouljaPods, and SouljaPad. (The SouljaPods are less than $7… I mean…).
The only question I have left is for Soulja Boy himself: Can a girl get a response about that review unit of your Soulja Watch?
[ Engadget, MyNintendoNews]<\/p>\n