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Gizmondo

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Is anyone else excited about the relaunch of the Gizmondo later this year? I've been thinking about getting one for awhile and am definately going to buy a new one. Does anyone know if it will be a worldwide launch or just UK?
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I would get one if it wasnt just in the UK. I personally think its a really neat peice of equipment (just like the ngage) that often gets beetin apon (sticky ballz was fun despite the unusual name)
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RyaNtheSlayA wrote:I would get one if it wasnt just in the UK.
It did have a very limited release in the US, mostly online or in mall kiosks though (which might explain why I never heard of it until last year)
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Oh. I thought you were joking when you said you were excited about the launch. Thought the whole Gizmondo debacle was dead and buried. :roll:
JT wrote:Yeah, like vampire aliens invade and hit us all with a ray beam that paralyzes all of our arms. The only way to deactivate the ray beam and fight back the vampire alien threat is with a complicated series of foot patterns on the device's control board that looks remarkably like a DDR pad. We will all praise this man for saving our lives and buy him a mountain of stuffed animals.
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Relaunching it seems like a bad idea :) Although I like the N-Gage (which actually has a lot of positives), I think the Gizmondo has very little saving graces (particularly for the price they retailed for). If the re-launch price is much cheaper (as it seems like it will be) then it is a different story, as it may be an interesting GPS with some other thrills on the side (I don't see it doing well as "just" a gaming console).

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There is a write up about this little beast on digital press that was ok. To tell you the truth it doesn't look anything special to me. Other than a couple titles is seems designed more for modern gamers.
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Some of the games that look great to me are Colors, which seems like GTA in a way. Catapult (unreleased) looks amazing with AR Some of the others look amazing too. The graphics are somewhere around the PSP on most things.
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nick944 wrote:Some of the games that look great to me are Colors, which seems like GTA in a way. Catapult (unreleased) looks amazing with AR Some of the others look amazing too. The graphics are somewhere around the PSP on most things.

Not sure I got the relevence of the link.
JT wrote:Yeah, like vampire aliens invade and hit us all with a ray beam that paralyzes all of our arms. The only way to deactivate the ray beam and fight back the vampire alien threat is with a complicated series of foot patterns on the device's control board that looks remarkably like a DDR pad. We will all praise this man for saving our lives and buy him a mountain of stuffed animals.
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It uses the Gizmondo's camera and the square placed down, so it can look like the game is taking place wherever you place the square, which sounds amazing to me.
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Re: Gizmondo

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forget the gizmondo, check out pandora: http://pandorawiki.org/Pandora
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