gpx2 to be released in america and europe?!

Yes, probably. That's what the admin of the gpx2 website told me anyway.

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I hope it doesn't. It will be a total disaster for them. No way can they compete with Nintendo and Sony in the US.

 

they're just not in the same category, i admit. But, while it's their biggest weakness, it's their biggest force at the same time. it won't sell billions and all, and i doubt you'll ever see this nearby a DS or something, but that's still a multimedia player, right?

 

They are goin to sell it online for sure, so they can keep the profit that importers did with the GP32

 

yeah, i doubt it will ever get released in stores. In some random specialized video game shop that chosed to, maybe, but otherwise...

 

Only way they stand any chance is to sell it super cheap. Which they won't.

 

Why is it that so many people can't understand that a product can be sold without that meaning it's trying to compete directly with products form huge billion-dollar corporations. If Gamepark Holdings sells the GPX2 in the US or Europe (or even if they don't actually), that doesn't mean that they're trying to compete with Nintendo in anything like the same way that Sony is.

It's some sort of stupidity grown out of modern corporate capitalism that people assume that any product coming to market must be trying to establish market dominance.

You run into the same misunderstanding whenever people hear about homebrew games or software. People scoff and say, "How can thery expect to compete with the big boys."

They don't. And they don't have to. Thanks god there's still alternatives to "the big boys." There won't be for long if people can't learn to see past the capitalist monopoly paradigm.


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Didn't they say that the original GP32 was also going to be released in the US and Europe? As far as I know it never happened though.

Yakumo

 

History my good man, history. Up till the PSP every handheld lost to GameBoy and had a pretty short life. Even left some of the companies bankrupt. I don't want this to happen to GamePark.

 

Thats not the point: those portables went right against the GB, while the GP32 went on another direction, the GPX2 will follow

The problem is that the only thing that made the GP32 (and the GPX2) attractive to the public was its ability to emulate other machines. The PSP already has that capacity, and way better that what the GPX2 will be able to offer at that price point.

Plus the GPX2 is goin to use SDs, which arent cheaper than the MSduos.

 

Yeah but SD cards are cheaper than Sony Memory sticks

Yakumo

 

Every handheld that tried to compete directly with the Gameboy failed (actually, that's not true, but let's just say that it is for the sake of argument), but that's *NOT* what the GP32 or GPX2 are trying to do. WHY CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT CONCEPT? I don't know how else to explain it.

What would you have Gamepark Holdings do rather than "go up against Nintendo"? Not sell their system at all? They wouldn't stay in business very long that way either and during the time when they were in business, they certainly wouldn't be very interesting to you or me. So, you want them just to sell the system in Korea and not overseas? Why do you think that selling the GPX2 in the US and Europe means that they're trying to compete directly with Nintendo, but selling it in Korea doesn't? If they decide to sell it outside Korea, it doesn't mean that anything has changed except that they're now selling it outside of Korea, their business plan is still the same. Follow?


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Did Nintendo ever release the Gameboy line in Korea?

To extend the the word 'competition' into 'competing for the consumers money' would put things more into perspective. People only have so much money, and if they see two products that can do the same things, and are similarly priced, they will more often then not go with the one manufactured by the company they are more familiar with. If it is indeed released here then im sure it'll sell, but mostly to the 'hardcore' crowd who either hate the other companies with comparable devices, or who are addicted to having options.

The problem is, are these 'hardcore' people going to be enough to make GP's effort worthwile financialy? If not, and it does need general consumers, what incentive will people have to buy it?

 

GPX2 will be distributed in Europe & US only by "little" & internet shops like this or playasia.com

May 2004: Virgin released GP32 BLU in Europe ... too late ...

Yes, if you can hack every firmware update, plus PSP ""only"" has 32 mb RAM

Are you sure?

 

The Gp32 doesn't have to attempt to compete with the DS and PSP, because in the average American consumers mind, they are all the same. While they will attempt to seperate the system from its more recognized counterparts, no one will recognize it and that = no sales.
sorry if that doesnt make any sense...it did when I wrote it.

 

i totally agree with sweater fish deluxe (where did he got that name from?). And the gpx2 IS designed for emulation (among other things), NOT the psp. You'll get unused screen parts, little
gameplay screens, and all, and you need to do 245 things to get the emulator to work (or any hombrew game/program), plus you won't be able to play new games soon. GPX2 seems to be way more appropriate for emulation. You won't get dead pixels, shitty battery life and something that will break in your if you sneeze for emulation and multimedia either. It will be less expensive and have 64 mb of memory and 64 mb of flash memory too. The community won't be underground, and more supported than the psp homebrew scene, for sure (i even think some psp homebrew developers will switch to the gpx2, way more friendly for this kind of thing). So , IMO, there's no comparaison.

 

Dude, for that price you could buy a PSP for the emus and another one for the games, an 32MB of RAM doesnt mean shit when you are running on a R4000. If you mean storage, well, you got the MSduo.........

And in the pictures of the GPX2 you can see very clearly the SD logo

PS: and yes, ppl is goin to go trought all the problems to install emus in a PSP, just for pleasure of saving a couple bucks and showing their friends their H4x0rz abilities :-D

 

i doubt the gpx2 will cost more than the psp, really.

and don't forget that tv out!

 

The GP32 was WAY more expensive (in the west) than the GBA, and who plays portable games in a TV?..............

 

And there's also all the people who bought Gameboy Players.

Personally, I think you're very wrong about emulation being the only thing people like about the Gamepark systems, more people I know who own GP32s are into it for the homebrew than emulation, but maybe that's because I hang out on homebrew sites more than emulation oriented ones. But even aside from emulation, I think the TV out is a great feature and I'm very happy that Gamepark Holdings (and Gamepark on the XGP, too, apparently) is including it.

I'm not even gonna respond to the other stuff going on in this thread because some of you guys don't even seem to be capable of understanding the concept I was trying to get across. That's a shame.


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