[mindcrime]

Tech websites need to stop giving these projects coverage.

Why? There are people who want to know about this kind of thing.

This is not Atari... Atari is gone.

So?

Slapping licensed games and selling a shiny box with common internals is not novel and will not somehow grow a magical following.

Why do you think it needs a "magical following"? Isn't it enough that there's market demand for this box and they are serving that demand?