Comment Re:Unfortunately... (Score 2, Insightful) 195
I don't think it's supposed to be competing with the PSP or DS, to be honest. I'm a big fan of the GP32 (what came before), and I'm further an owner of one of these (and it is a great deal cooler as devices go, despite the loopholes), but there's no way I'd claim this thing can compete with either. The closest it'll come graphically is a decent PSX emulator (which is already chugging along somewhat, although needs some more fiddling, if the last vid I saw of it was anything to go by), or, conceivably, a port of the wonderful Yeti3D engine - if and only if people actually start to use it!
What it *will* do is embrace homebrew in a way that the PSP or DS are unlikely ever to do, outside of an incredibly restricted box. For those that want graphical splendour, therefore, it's of little importance - buy a PSP and be wowed by the graphics... that's the main thing about the thing. On the other hand, for those that want the buzz of a truly thriving community that's releasing new amazing developments every few days, both in emulators, but also in some very addictive homebrew games (Tilematch springs to mind), then this is pretty much the only thing to go for.
Unless, of course, you want to go for a Zaurus or what have you instead, which, if we're honest, has somewhat more punch (albeit a larger price tag too), but at the expense of... well, having buttons in the right places to play stuff, if all the reports I've heard are in fact true!
What it *will* do is embrace homebrew in a way that the PSP or DS are unlikely ever to do, outside of an incredibly restricted box. For those that want graphical splendour, therefore, it's of little importance - buy a PSP and be wowed by the graphics... that's the main thing about the thing. On the other hand, for those that want the buzz of a truly thriving community that's releasing new amazing developments every few days, both in emulators, but also in some very addictive homebrew games (Tilematch springs to mind), then this is pretty much the only thing to go for.
Unless, of course, you want to go for a Zaurus or what have you instead, which, if we're honest, has somewhat more punch (albeit a larger price tag too), but at the expense of... well, having buttons in the right places to play stuff, if all the reports I've heard are in fact true!
