Gizmondo out soon! (October)

It looks interesting, especially if it does retail for under £60 with a 400Mhz XScale processor and GPS/GPRS/Basic phone capabilites.

Imagine a medium/high spec PDA on steroids, but with "proper" gaming controls (including shoulder buttons).

I saw this at ECTS/Gamestars, and it does look quite impressive, but whether or not it gets 3rd party support is another thing.

Due out in the UK very soon (29th October), with a US/Worldwide release to follow.

Specs:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/16/gametrac_to_gizmondo/

General release details:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/10/gizmondo_uk_launch/

 

i've never heard of this thing before :"S

 

I'm not surprised, it's made by a small UK company (owned by Tiger Electronics).

Their website is strangely sparse, more so than the Phantom website. But, I have seen and touched this thing for real, so its more believable than most vapourware. The photo's I posted from Gamestars, the girls sat on the Hum-V/Hummer/Huge Ass American Monstrosity/Thing are from the Gizmondo stand. You can see them playing with Gizmondo's in the one photo.

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Found the photo:

 

I had a shot of a prototype version earlier this afternoon with a 2d shooter game being the demo.I must say I was hugely impressed by this now,this new model having an nvidia chipset to boost it's 3d capabilities.

Some of the effects were mindblowing,way,way above GBa.If this console get's thrid party support,which we all know it won't,it could do some intresting games.Nowhere in the league of Psp visuals but certainly competing if not bettering the Ds's.I saw some video footage of a first person shooter called colours and I was genuinely impressed by it.

For something I was ready to dismiss as camel-balls, it seems to be shaping up quite nicely.I do feel it's high price tag of 230 uk pounds could kill it dead in the water too.Hopefully it will get a big publisher on board and gain a small market share.

 

It's basically a PDA with a custom GUI over the Pocket Windows 2003 OS. My PDA does graphics of the same sort of level (minus the odd light effect due to the lack of dedicated GPU). I can emulate PSX games fine, and run some awesome looking Pocket PC 3D games. The only let down with PDA gaming is the controls are shit. A pad in the middle with 2 buttons either side, does not make for good control!

Funny how the original pricetag of £60 has more than tripled...

 

Yeah, I think it is due to the new chipset that has been added and also the original price tag was very unrealistic considering they will HAVE to make the money from the hardware.This looks to go along a similar route of the GP32,an emulation beast.

 

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FYI, the military model is the Humvee, while the civilian one is the Hummer. I want to slap the people I see driving the goddamn things around town, but I suppose they suffer enough getting like 5 miles to the gallon.

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Didn't know that, thanks!

In my opinion, a vehicle should get miles to the gallon, not gallons to the mile!

Humvee mileage:

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Gas:
# 3.8 mpg worst at 78 miles per hour
# 6.8 mpg best easy in town driving

Compare to a Warrior FV 510 tank:

 

I was excited about this then some one said it was made by Tiger :-(

 

And as a side note; I was almost knocked down by a hummer once. Shit my pants.

 

I can imagine, its a good 10 minute run, just to traverse the width of one!

Gizmondo is made by a company owned by Tiger, so its potentially not that bad... potentially...

 

It has potential, and i'm not at all surprised about the current price, did you really for even a second thing that all that expensive pda hardware could be sold for a mere 60 pounds ?

But if they don't get some big companies to make software it will go the way of the GP32 and end up in the emulator/homebrewn scene were the real potentail of the machine will stay unused.

 

You would be amazed how cheap PDA's are to make! they could easily afford to sell them for £60. Obviously they wouldnt make the 300% profit on them though...

I doubt the potential would go untapped, as it uses Windows CE, any PDA application could be run on it with little to no modification. I was playing Super Monkey Ball Jr on mine last night, unplayable with music on, but impressive without. Still doesn't hold a candle to Wipeout 2097 on it though! rayer:

 

There is a guy here who has an H2. It is not as big as the original Hummer, but it is still pretty damn big.

 

There are lots

There are tons in my town and it seems that as soon as you step inside one you become an asshole :smt043