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Microsoft to Introduce GBA-competitor?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the xbox-in-the-palm-of-your-hand dept.

An anonymous reader writes "It seems that Nintendo will have a competition in the handheld market soon. ZDnet has an article that says Microsoft's plan to introduce a 'Media Pad' which includes among other things 'serve as a portable game player in conjunction with Microsoft's Xbox video game console.' So I guess the news I heard regarding their interest in the portable industry will soon come true, the question is, can they take the crown from Nintendo?"

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  1. Re:Doubtful by psxndc · · Score: 3, Informative
    NeoGeo Pocket Color: RIP

    Wonderswan: not coming to this side of the ocean even though it has Square and Final Fantasy behind it.

    While I don't doubt M$'s money and ability to release this thing (and it looks like gaming is a side feature), compete with Gameboy it won't. Gameboy is an unstoppable monster. Every kid has one, they're backward compatible so there is a library of a zillion games, and companies are releasing GBA versions of the SNES games a bunch of us adults loved. M$'s doohicky may exist, but will never compete.

    psxndc

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  2. this might be a dumb question by f00zbll · · Score: 4, Informative
    This may be risking the stamp of stupidity, but having read the article, it mentions the device would store everything on the internet on .NET servers.

    I don't know about other people's connectivity, but my cable modem connection is a bit flaky at times. Reguardless of how valuable or useful it may be, is Microsoft going to solve the problem bad ISP's? How is the average consumer going to know the cause is the ISP and not the device?

    The idea of a mobile computing device that acts as a game, computer and universal remote is pretty cool. High end audio, video, entertainment systems are similar though very expensive.

    Are people willing to reboot their DSL/Cable modem to get their universal remote to work, or will they pick up the other remote?