Ex-Gizmondo exec Carl Freer is to revive the ill-fated handheld games console, which could be back on sale by May for just $99 if he gets his way.
Incredible, some peoples' perseverence... And it's interesting that news of the revival broke almost two years to the very day that Gizmondo Europe, the gadget's original owner, went …
i went into the Gizmondo store on Regent St a week or two after it opened and i had a play with the display device
it was useless - the controls were unresponcive, the games looked naff, and it couldn't even lock onto a GPS signal to tell me where i was in London
it just wasn't at all appealing
so if they hope to make a success of it this time (when all the competition has moved ahead so much in the mean time) they'll have to do a lot of work on improving the original
Will they include "Enzo Outrun" where you have to drive a Ferrari as fast as possible while fighting with a mystery German attacker and trying to pull your concealed pistol from the side of your seat?
I hope they've done something about the abysmal battery life and thumb-twiddling boot-up time, otherwise I can't see the second coming of the Giz being any better than the first. :o(
(Windows CE was always a poor choice of OS in my opinion)
Bless him, maybe it's the name or something else but Giz owners really seam to love that little device. I use mine as a Sat Nav running Tomtom, yeah I know not suppose to do that, but it does! Play a little SSX in my lunch hour on it. I’d say to him, don’t bother, love it and leave it!
Hmmm , fool me once curse you , fool me twice silly me !
But say don't a few Euro countries have the usual batch of criminal fraud charges awaiting for his return , something to do with assorted fiction and the somewhat creative accountants he also employed to do his bidding whilst he was flushing shareholder funds in the direction of his foreign based pension self retirement fund ! Also a certain UK firm still has outstanding Interpol car theft charges over a certain destroyed ENZO that belonged to them as well !
That should be enough to keep him in the courts and legal system for the next twelve years or so forcing him to spend the bulk of his ill gotten gains to keep himself out of the clink !
Given the current market in flames problems , the pending Financial Tsunami of 2012 , me thinks the amount of money available for him to borrow would not fill a tea cup so as to speak !
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Gizmondo co-founder to revive ill-fated console
Ex-Gizmondo exec Carl Freer is to revive the ill-fated handheld games console, which could be back on sale by May for just $99 if he gets his way. Incredible, some peoples' perseverence... And it's interesting that news of the revival broke almost two years to the very day that Gizmondo Europe, the gadget's original owner, went …
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Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 16:40 GMT
Giles Jones
Give it up #
There's simply no market for a handheld games device that isn't made by one of the current games console giants.
Make something else, media player with Java or flash game capability, a phone, anything but another rubbish game console that will hemorrhage cash.
If Nokia failed, how can the revived Gizmondo stand a chance?
I'd love to see this idiot pitch the idea to the Dragons on Dragons Den, he'd be laughed off.
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 16:40 GMT
jai
will this one actually work? #
i went into the Gizmondo store on Regent St a week or two after it opened and i had a play with the display device
it was useless - the controls were unresponcive, the games looked naff, and it couldn't even lock onto a GPS signal to tell me where i was in London
it just wasn't at all appealing
so if they hope to make a success of it this time (when all the competition has moved ahead so much in the mean time) they'll have to do a lot of work on improving the original
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 18:13 GMT
Cameron Colley
New games eh? #
Will they include "Enzo Outrun" where you have to drive a Ferrari as fast as possible while fighting with a mystery German attacker and trying to pull your concealed pistol from the side of your seat?
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 18:13 GMT
JonRB
"Oh no, not again" #
I hope they've done something about the abysmal battery life and thumb-twiddling boot-up time, otherwise I can't see the second coming of the Giz being any better than the first. :o(
(Windows CE was always a poor choice of OS in my opinion)
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 18:13 GMT
Anonymous Coward
ah bless #
Bless him, maybe it's the name or something else but Giz owners really seam to love that little device. I use mine as a Sat Nav running Tomtom, yeah I know not suppose to do that, but it does! Play a little SSX in my lunch hour on it. I’d say to him, don’t bother, love it and leave it!
Posted Thursday 24th January 2008 18:13 GMT
Mage
Why?? #
iPhone
ngauge
PSP
nintendo DS
even GP2X http://www.gp2x.com/
(which has even been hacked to have WiFi Internet and BT GPS!)
This would need to do all a PSP & DS does and have GPS and 3G/EDGE/GSM etc at this stage...
Unless it is €20 in Tesco
Posted Friday 25th January 2008 05:48 GMT
heystoopid
Hmmm , #
Hmmm , fool me once curse you , fool me twice silly me !
But say don't a few Euro countries have the usual batch of criminal fraud charges awaiting for his return , something to do with assorted fiction and the somewhat creative accountants he also employed to do his bidding whilst he was flushing shareholder funds in the direction of his foreign based pension self retirement fund ! Also a certain UK firm still has outstanding Interpol car theft charges over a certain destroyed ENZO that belonged to them as well !
That should be enough to keep him in the courts and legal system for the next twelve years or so forcing him to spend the bulk of his ill gotten gains to keep himself out of the clink !
Given the current market in flames problems , the pending Financial Tsunami of 2012 , me thinks the amount of money available for him to borrow would not fill a tea cup so as to speak !
Posted Friday 25th January 2008 10:49 GMT
Anonymous Coward
@Heystoopid #
That's Fat Steph mate, not this chap.
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