I found this while looking through today's GDC09 news:
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=22867
Then I checked out the console's site:
http://www.zeeboinc.com/
"Meet Zeebo™, the entertainment platform that brings the fun and excitement of interactive 3D gaming and education to tomorrow’s consumers. Using technologies such as wireless game delivery, Zeebo fundamentally alters the economics of interactive entertainment in the developing world, opening a vast new opportunity for users and content providers. "
Looks interesting and I'd like to see how this new console stands up to the current big three.
New Console (Zeebo)
Ooh, wireless game delivery, eh? So it's like, Satellaview? This should turn out good... Though I do like 3D gaming.
Edit: NO, in fact, I'm gonna call it right now. Zeebo will fail harder than The POP Station.
This console looks like it could fail, badly. It looks about as powerful as a PS2, with no marketing at all.
"Meet Zeebo™, the entertainment platform that brings the fun and excitement of interactive 3D gaming and education to tomorrow’s consumers."This is why Zeebo will fail.
It's actually not meant to be a competition at all to modern consoles. It's meant for emerging countrie's consumers, who can not afford a current gen videogame, or do not even follow the current trends to know about them. And it's garanteed against piracy, the major problems in coutries such as mine.
There's a chance it might not be succesful because of one thing: the cost. It's more expensive than a ps2, and almost everyone here have a moded ps2 to run pirate games. But it's an interesting initiave, anything that can change how the market currently is here, is great news to me.
I don't know if the article said, but most of the games it'll support are old gen games we have all played. Maybe it'll open up to minor developers, but I don't know about that.
So, all of you saying you'll stick to your current consoles, and that you can't afford a new one. Don't worry, it's not meant to you.
Funny how now I see this news everywhere. This console wasn't a secret, it had been revealed quite some time ago. It was even discussed here in the GB foruns.
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