The open hand held gaming platform Pandora was released today. Anyone getting one of these?
They look pretty incredible. Full qwerty keyboard, high res touch screen, dual analog sticks, just really freaking sweet all around. The site is slashdotted at the moment, but you can check out the wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(console).
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It's certainly more powerful than the PSP but it doesn't emulate any significant consoles than the PSP doesn't already. Unless you want the potential of emulating the Jaguar that bad (and the only Jag PC emulator project is in hiatus at the moment). I'm not leaning towards the PSP btw since it's a locked platform and its defenders manage to neglect the fact anyone could brick his or her unit quite easily. I'm wary of the steep price tags since those systems have little commercial support and must be profitable hardware-wise from day one.
Pulsar_t wrote:It's certainly more powerful than the PSP but it doesn't emulate any significant consoles than the PSP doesn't already. Unless you want the potential of emulating the Jaguar that bad (and the only Jag PC emulator project is in hiatus at the moment). I'm not leaning towards the PSP btw since it's a locked platform and its defenders manage to neglect the fact anyone could brick his or her unit quite easily. I'm wary of the steep price tags since those systems have little commercial support and must be profitable hardware-wise from day one.
lets not forget the "Zodiac" which was supposed to blow psp out of the water,
without the software support its will fail you, unless you must have eveything and you can afford the "Pandora" and you dont care if it fails. the software they are advertising mostly works on the PSP, but the PSP has alot of new and modern games.
sounds impressive however, doesnt seem like there is a nice layout for the analouge stick though, dual analoge is nice however.
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raztat wrote:Could I buy one of those at best buy or at wal mart? If not it will probably fail. I want one though.
No. The GP2X and GP32 have always been sold through online stores. This isn't a mainstream console like the PSP and it definitely wont be sold at Walmart or Best Buy
Although it will still "fail" far worse than the 2x and 32 no doubt.
raztat wrote:Could I buy one of those at best buy or at wal mart? If not it will probably fail. I want one though.
GP2X can't be found in Best Buy or any other big chain electronics store, but from what I hear it does pretty well (so well in fact that they just updated it for the third time).
As Pulsar_t pointed out - PSP equipped with custom firmware has similar range of emulators on it as Pandora claims it will have, so for now I will stick with my PSP. But I have to admit i really like the keyboard and the whole button layout.
