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G1 Google Phone Could End Up the Most Popular Console Ever
Jon Jordan writes "Pocket Gamer has been getting its fingers inside the unique new Zeebo console — a sub $200 system designed for emerging markets — to discover it's based on a hacked version of the T-Mobile G1 Google phone. It effectively consists of the chipset from the HTC Dream/G1 Android phone, plus some extra I/O to deal with TV screens, controllers and the like. If this gaming, entertainment and educational console for the billion-strong middle classes in emerging economies such as Brazil and India catches on, HTC could become a serious global gaming force. Qualcomm's Mike Yuen said in an interview, 'We have this mass market chipset, and our next-generation chipset is getting faster. What we announced, [Qualcomm's] Snapdragon [chipset], is going to netbooks; it bumps it a few notches above that. The cell phone business, including us, is never going to build a processor that's going to match or surpass what the video game guys do. So, why chase that?'"
Exactly. Sony tried and failed miserable.
The PSP is a failure compared to the DS. Some little pissant that cant even touch what Sony spends on toilet paper daily is going to become even viable? That's funny.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
They're only garbage to smelly 20 somethings. The members of the human race that have had sex with other people however enjoy simpler games that don't take hours at a time and require usage of non-words like "pwned".
OK genius, there have been 45 million iPhones/ ipod Touches sold in the less than 2 years. If that is not a tour-de-fucking-force, then what the fuck is?