China’s latest games console – the Fuze – certainly wears its inspirations on its sleeve.
The home console is basically a PS4 shell with an Xbox One controller.
Images of the console were posted to the company’s website after the Android-powered machine was unveiled during a conference held in Beijing.
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As you can see, the design of the console is incredibly familiar, dare we say a complete rip-off of what Sony and Microsoft have.
Even the user interface is very familiar to that of the PS4, sporting the same blue hue and iconography.
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Hysterically, one slide used during the conference places the Fuze logo next to Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo – most likely an attempt to suggest Fuze can stand alongside the ‘big three’ powerhouses as a brand, but more a case of saying “hey, these are the guys we ripped off”.
I guess Fuze is representative of the combination of design elements of every other gaming company, then.
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