No, I mean... emulation isn't building a garden. Emulation isn't building anything. Emulation is... the kindest way of putting it is that it's preservation. You're preserving what someone else already built. Maybe you're restoring it, cleaning it up, adding value to it, but you're still relying on the thing you're building upon.
My point is, it's really hard for the OpenPandora to be an alternative to the proprietary consoles so long as its sales pitch is that it can run software written for all the older proprietary consoles. You can't be an alternative to something you're wholly dependent on.
There is a hell of a lot more to the OpenPandora than emulation. It may be correct that they're not marketing it properly, but then again its also true that the users know whats up:
* Nintendo DS emulator
* PSP emulator
* Playstation emulator
* Nintendo 64 emulator
* Amiga 500/1200 emulator
* Super Nintendo emulator
* Sega Genesis emulator
* MS DOS emulator
* Arcade emulator
* Game Boy Advanced emulator
Yeah, I'd say the users know what's up. I also suspect that it's being marketed appropriately.
Emulators are fantastic! I don't know why you have a problem with them .. I have a mass collection of cartridges for these systems from my youth, which I have a right to access freely and legally, and I'm certainly not going to disallow my kids from the opportunity of learning what those old machines were like, since they've got the Pandora for precisely this purpose.
I would say what you are trying to say is that the Pandora is not a 'consumption' device, or 'consumer'-ish enough, and I would argue that your definition of consumer and mine are widely invariate. Consumers of the Pandora Emulator ecosystem are as valid as any other - or would you rather all these carts and systems end up in the land-fill? Here's another lesson, then: computers don't get old. Their users do.
For this purpose, be forever prepared to emulate/virtualize all the things!
My point is, it's really hard for the OpenPandora to be an alternative to the proprietary consoles so long as its sales pitch is that it can run software written for all the older proprietary consoles. You can't be an alternative to something you're wholly dependent on.