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eznoir · 12/07/2012 11:54 PM

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News said that there's gonna be a new console which uses android. Its spec : Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal flash storage. SDK will be distributed for free so everyone can make their own games as long as they follow one condition : at least some of the gameplay they offer has to be free. It's planned to be launched on March 2013 for 99$.

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It is funny that they're building an android console lol. Although I'm sure with its price range, it'd sell easily *here (for kids, casual gamers, and gamer wannabe).

*Indonesia

ada · 13/07/2012 12:59 AM

what a piece of crap

Kuu · 13/07/2012 12:59 AM

I've been following this. Over 3mil raised on Kickstarter.

For $99, I 'd get one. I'm a fan of open-source and it's a really neat concept.

Senseito7 · 13/07/2012 03:13 AM

^ was gonna say, it certainly seemed to have impressed a lot of people.

eKusoshisut0 · 13/07/2012 04:30 AM

 (13/07/2012 12:59 AM)ada Wrote:  what a piece of crap

ZiNgA BuRgA · 13/07/2012 05:24 AM

Am a little critical of this.
Idealism can only go so far unfortunately. $99 is a good price point - cheaper than any other console and most phones, and comparable to those TV media devices (eg WDTV).
With the rise of Indie games and explosion of the Android platform though, it has a chance.

It won't replace the big corp backed consoles, or really even compete in the same league (at first), but could have its own niche.

Something else to consider though:

Quote:At a glance it seems legit, but on rereading, I had to wonder this myself:

    Promise of "killer" opening price-point of $99.
    Promise of "every game free-to-play".
    Use of Android and other buzzwords.
    Multitude of unrelated screenshots of unrelated, unsupported, non-Android games.
    Promise of "easy rooting" (why would you need to root something if root was manufacturer-supported?)
    Lots of pseudo-appeal to the "non-mainstream".
    Release in 10 months with <$1mil budget.
    >10,000+ consoles already promised at or below price-point.

This has a lot of "too-good-to-be-true" tempered by some things to make it seem reasonable. But with the promises made, I'm not sure. "Estimated Delivery: March 2013" is awfully soon to manufacture a console with presumably no prior hardware development experience. Do they have all their contracts already lined up? Is their software already developed? Just look how long it took to get the OpenPandora out.

All of this starts making you wonder "wait, is this really legit?" I certainly can't say it's not, but it seems either naive or too good to be true.

http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?si...d=40615799

eznoir · 13/07/2012 05:37 AM

the good point is that other countries (other than Jp, Kor, or US) can start making their console games industry,, and they don't need to be a big corporation lol

gets kinda chocolatety here because some universities started "game making" Strata program when there's actually almost no decent job for it available here. a few foreign companies rather take ppl from IT for programming or Art for drawing/modelling.

ZiNgA BuRgA · 13/07/2012 06:00 AM

(13/07/2012 05:37 AM)eznoir Wrote: the good point is that other countries (other than Jp, Kor, or US) can start making their console games industry,, and they don't need to be a big corporation lol

The great thing about Indie development. And it's these guys that seem to have creativity, so that wee don't constantly get yet-another-shooter games all the time.

I'm glad that the iPhone/Android platforms have brought some competition against the big corps (though the PC has always been open).

Rawrsor · 13/07/2012 06:26 AM

I think this could be good for indie gaming.

Joomy · 13/07/2012 07:40 AM

Only $99? Yeah right. It has nearly the same specs as my phone and it's twice the price. If this runs Android too, then it will be able to do A LOT more than just play games. I'd imagine that and hardware manufacturing would make it cost a lot more.

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