News Gizmondo back from the grave

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/01/25/gizmondo_back_from_the_grave/1

The Gizmondo PMP, which famously failed and ended with a company founder jailbound, is to launch itself to market once more. Yay?

 

if the GP2X is not a big competitor today, how do these guys think the Gizmondo will survive?

 

The original didn't survive in a market dominated by Nintendo, how do they expect a new version to survive in a market still dominated by Nintendo - a market that even Sony is having difficulty breaking into.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(console) i found this interesting.....

 

well, if i look at the picture in the article i see a device i would expect to find on a chinese market for sub 5£....

maybe just maybe its cheap plastic appearance had something to do why it didnt sell for 230£.

 

This is most definitely a niche market. For people like me that want a handheld capable primarily of emulation and multi-format video playback, we already have the excellent GP2x, which by the way retails for around £125. The Gizmondo will need to have to have a pretty impressive feature set to justify the £100 premium!

 

na, if ya have every messed with one first hand, you would know that the build quality is great, far better than the DS or PSP v2

 

pfft. It,s all about the games and frankly I would by anything for the right game.

I can't see it going far though.

 

what games are on it? lol.

 

8igdave :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gizmondo_games

 

I read an interview with carl freer that was posted by DLoney in the first news article about the gizmondo http://sandberghans.blogspot.com/2008/01/carl-freer-starts-over-with-gizmondo.html , was pretty interesting, the new gizmondo looks a lot nicer as well, more like a psp, and they are talking about selling it for $99 it uses a standard sd card for the games and its open source, i think it has some potential

 

I am with you on this one. I dont think it has a chance.

 

but there is one thing that interests me in the gizmondo..... the hardware inside it: NVIDIA 128 bit GoForce 3D 4500 GPU and 400 MHz ARM9 processor..... interesting.... if they are able to innovate the console even more, like add a multi touch touch screen.... i can see them growing, but they would still be very short from the level of nintendo and sony.....