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Gizmondo Future Looks Bleak
Gamespot reports that the company behind the Gizmondo handheld console, Tiger, is looking at some tough financial numbers. Mostly, it seems, brought on by poor sales of the console. From the article: "Gizmondo Europe subsidiary has experienced severe financial pressures from various vendors as its cash flow has been unable to service the requirements. This has in part been aggravated by a lack of investor funding. The company has been actively negotiating for further funds from debt and equity sources to assist the cash flow needs of Gizmondo Europe but there can be no assurances that this will be achieved."
Thing is, Gizmondo used to be something rather different. The original idea as I understand it was to use GPS to enable parents to track their kids. They only wanted to make the thing enough of a games device that the kids wouldn't ditch it (!). The thing's been pending for so long that DS and PSP probably weren't on their radar when the original project was (ill-)conceived.
This is a different Tiger Electronics.
The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.