Soulja Boy (that’s DeAndre Cortez Way to his mum) is an American rapper and entertainer who broke into the scene with the smash hit “Crank That (Soulja Boy).” He’s been successful since, but nothing’s quite matched his initial peak. An enterprising fellow, he’s now selling smartwatches, phones…and game consoles.
Soulja boy revealed his new line of video game consoles this week. He’s calling the pair of systems – a handheld and a home console – SouljaGame. The only problem? They’re cheaply made Chinese consoles stuffed with emulators and illicit roms. The handeld comes with 3000 unlicened roms on it, spanning systems like the Neo Geo, Mega Drive, Capcom System 1, Gameboy colour and Famicom (NES). It retails for $199 (though it’s on special for $99).
The home console looks like an Xbox One S knockoff, and comes loaded with over 800 arcade, console and handled games. It comes with a controller that’s based on Sony’s Dualshock.
While I appreciate the dude’s hustle, selling systems loaded with unlicenced roms is neither smart nor savvy. My only hope is that such a high-profile person selling these systems gets the licence holders to prod at them a little more.
That said, Soulja Boy is obviously proud of his new side business of selling rebranded, cheap Chinese emulation boxes at a sizeable markup.
To the first person that purchased my console you just brought tears to my eyes. Tears of joy! Thank you so much for your support I promise to continue my tech company and evolve it in the gaming world. I’m just a kid with a dream ??♂️
— Soulja Boy (Drako) (@souljaboy) December 5, 2018
Last Updated: December 6, 2018
InCognito
December 6, 2018 at 09:54
Hold onto your hats those lawsuits are coming.
Magoo
December 6, 2018 at 10:04
I mean, he’s perfected the idea that Sony and Nintendo are currently profiting off, down to the “cheaply made Chinese consoles” and illicit or third party emulation. Only problem is that the guy is so innocent, or uneducated, that he thinks giving people so many outdated games which never would have sold anyways, without compensating the inheritors, and for less money than the conglomerate competitors, is against the law.
Ok maybe I’m reaching a bit.
Original Heretic
December 6, 2018 at 09:13
You get innovators who change the world, then you get assholes who only want to ride on the coattails of others to get rich.
HvR
December 6, 2018 at 10:13
Then you get rappers with face tattoos
HvR
December 6, 2018 at 10:13
Then you get rappers with face tattoos
InCognito
December 6, 2018 at 09:54
Hold onto your hats those lawsuits are coming.
Viper_ZA
December 6, 2018 at 10:00
What an idiot.
Magoo
December 6, 2018 at 10:04
A peculiar case in which you’re either A – rallying against something that’s wrong but for the wrong reasons (because he’s a rapper) or you’re B – rooting for something that’s wrong, but only because everyone else is A.
I call it the Trump effect.
Admiral Chief
December 6, 2018 at 10:32
Kill it with fire. Both of the IT’s
killiakun
December 6, 2018 at 10:52
This is just a typical idiot in the music industry failing to understand copyright laws. Those “consoles” are a giant lawsuit waiting to happen. There is no innocence involved, only pure stupidity lol. Not really surprised though to be honest as its coming from the train wreck music genre known as “modern” rap
Brian
December 6, 2018 at 11:39
While you’re all laughing, I’m sitting over here playing 3000+ games on my brand new SouljaGame that I got on sale using this questionably legal affiliate link . Now if you will excuse me, I just got a notification on my SouljaPhone.
Geoffrey Tim
December 6, 2018 at 12:22
Is it weird that I want to buy a Souljagame console purely to say that I did?
Brian
December 6, 2018 at 17:32
It’s better than that PS One classic or whatever, so I don’t blame you.