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Gizmondo Tilts At Windmills
The always excellent Game Over feature on CNN reports on the upcoming launch of the Gizmondo portable console, and what a colossally bad idea it is. From the article: "Assuming you do want to play one of those games, it's going to be a frustrating affair. The system's D-pad controller doesn't lend itself to accurate aiming, particularly in fast-paced games. Of course, you have to turn on the Gizmondo to play games or take advantage of any of its offerings. This is not a quick task. In fact, it takes 48 seconds. (Compare that to less than five seconds on the Nintendo DS.) "
Dude in a book went crazy and decided to mount his hourse and attack a windmill. Fun times.
It has a different flavor than just 'prepares for battle'. Don Quixote 'thought' he was attacking giants. He was, in fact, attacking windmills. So...Gizmondo thought they were gearing up to attack the giants of the industry while the fruits of their labor, at least according to TFA, show that they really had no clue what they were doing. Not a bad metaphor here, really.
And "tilting" doesn't really mean "preparing." To tilt is to joust.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
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Circumcision is child abuse.
They also just announced the next Gizmondo in September. It will apparently come in 2006 and feature wide screen.
Now think about it. You could blow $399 on a model that'll last less than half a year, and doesn't have any games worth playing anyway. Or you could just wait for the frickin' widescreen one, and see if any good games will be available by then.
Makes me wonder wtf are these people smoking. It's like they're actually trying to discourage people from buying one.
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I'm not going to accuse you of being a Luddite. I'm going to accuse you of having no idea what you're talking about. The original gameboy is the best selling videogame system of all time, the DS is currently outselling the ps2, and over 150 million of the various types of game boy have been sold. Nintendo makes plenty of money on handhelds. (Hence the occasional speculation that Nintendo will go handheld-only)
You can be playing a game on DS or GBA in less than 5 seconds . (Not having played with the PSP for any length of time, I don't know exactly how long it takes to be playing a game on that system. Anyone know?)
There are games of varying complexity, just like on any other system. The Warioware series is one of the best pick-up-and-play games I've ever seen: you can enjoy it for 60 seconds, or spend 2 hours playing the various minigames. On the other end of the spectrum are games like Advance Wars or Fire Emblem. Strategy games may not seem like ideal handheld games, but they work very well. Both of these save after every move, which lets you easily play them on a bus or something and not worry about losing any progress.