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the Gizmondo was a big con aledgedly

swordheartswordheart
edited April 2006 in Chit chat
Have u seen this

http://www.blueyonder.co.uk/blueyonder/getContent.do?page=1335024&group=wd_games

Thank goodness i didn't buy one
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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited April 2006
    Tiger Telematics for everything they could get, ending spectacularly with former Gizmondo board director Stefan Eriksson wrapping a stolen Enzo Ferrari around a Los Angeles lamp post, while very drunk.



    Well, hahahahaha for ripping TIger off, that sort of shit always amuses me. But lock the bastard up for drink driving, he could have killed someone.
  • ADJBADJB
    edited April 2006
    I thought the crash was quite funny. Wreakage over a quarter mile and the car absolutly shattered except for the drivers compartment.

    Bloody awful driving but great engineering.
  • Paul van der LaanPaul van der Laan
    edited April 2006
    swordheart wrote:
    Thank goodness i didn't buy one
    Or perhaps you should..! This one will be a collectable in a few years time. :)

    I guess it was pretty clear that the Gizmondo barely stood a chance against the likes of Nintendo or Sony. At least I hope Rick Dickinson got paid for his part of the design.
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited April 2006
    ive been trying to get a gizmondo but cant :( they only sell em in selected stores......all round london i think :(

    i heard theyd dropped the price in hmv to about ?40 not bad mark down from about ?230
    and games are supposedly about ?6.99

    bwoy id love one for that price.....not even hmv.co.uk do em tho :(
    *cries*
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • Bluce_ReeBluce_Ree
    edited April 2006
    i remember it looked fairly decent when it was announced. kind of like a gaming ppc but better than a Tapwave. i wouldnt say no for ?40 if theres some kind of homebrew scene.
  • udgoverloadudgoverload
    edited April 2006
    Bluce_Ree wrote:
    i remember it looked fairly decent when it was announced. kind of like a gaming ppc but better than a Tapwave. i wouldnt say no for £40 if theres some kind of homebrew scene.

    There can't be homebrew because they didn't actually use Pocket PC, they just used Windows CE. Couple that with total sales of maybe 30,000 and you're extremely unlikely to see anything much.

    The Tapwave Zodiac on the other hand used Palm, so even when official support stopped there was still support from the Palm community.

    The irony is that most of the Gizmondo games that were released were ports of smartphone games, so if you'd bought a Pocket PC or a Symbian instead you'd have been able to play those games as well as hundreds more despite not technically owning a games-oriented system.
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited April 2006
    i found abit of homebrew

    http://www.gizmondoforums.com/forums/index.php?act=dscript&CODE=viewcat&cat_id=2
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
  • udgoverloadudgoverload
    edited April 2006
    mel the bell wrote:
    i found abit of homebrew

    http://www.gizmondoforums.com/forums/index.php?act=dscript&CODE=viewcat&cat_id=2

    You'd do better with almost any other device though, there's very few bits of kit that sell less than 50,000.
  • mel the bellmel the bell
    edited April 2006
    udgoverload wrote:
    You'd do better with almost any other device though, there's very few bits of kit that sell less than 50,000.

    as the saying goes................its not size that counts :P
    Professional Mel-the-Bell Simulator................"So realistic, I found myself reaching for the Kleenex King-Size!" - Richard Darling
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