A few weeks ago, I told you about Pandora, a powerful open-source handheld coming in 2010. The team has unveiled a video of the system running Mario 64 and other Nintendo 64 classics. It’s pretty cool stuff that’s worth a peak.
For the most part, you guys don’t talk much about the PSP and DS systems. Is Pandora more to your liking?
I need to look into this more. I really am waiting for a better smart phone that can handle phone, email, internet, games, music, etc. The Iphone is pretty much all that for me. The Droid while cool….really should have had the thumb pad on the left side. It makes playing Mario 3 on it so difficult.
I guess for me (read older demographic) carrying around a device that is strictly for gaming is pretty much out of the question. What I'd really like is for one of these companies including Apple to make a phone that has all current smartphone features in mind but also has gaming in mind. i'm sold.
Forgot to add: meh on running Mario 64. The DS did that a while back. Next please.
Smartguy: how about Ocarina of Time?
When it plays Superman 64… then I'll call it garbage.
@N8R Superman 64 should be the Lord Voldemort of games.
What I can't fathom is why Sony Doesn't just up and release a PSPhone.
Make a PSP2 with general better hardware/battery life, touch screen, a second analog stick(obviously) and ye olde omnipresent internet connection, and then add a cell phone into it.
Have it be "backwards" compatible with the PSPgo/PS1 games currently on the PSN, and then open their world up to touch screen/2nd analog stick game availability.
THAT would be worth the ridiculous price point that the PSPgo currently occupies, and I'd bet people would love the hell out of it.
@Ieyke That's easy! Sony is an extremely fragmented company. While CEO Howard Stringer is trying to get its various divisions to work better together, it will take some time for that to happen. A product involving Sony Ericcson and Sony Computer Entertainment is a possibility in the future, but Sony as a whole needs to figure out how it can collaborate better. In addition to the two aforementioned divisions, Sony Music, Sony Pictures, and Sony Electronics should be leveraged better as well.
Oh, no doubt. If the true potential of the entity that is Sony could be brought to bear, nothing could stop it.
That company is a monster with a lot of fingers in all the right pies. It just doesn't know what to do with that.