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Resident_Hazard on 26 August 2008

I agree with Sky Render in that, I just don't see how anyone can think this will be a success--including investors and the developers. I mean, I haven't even heard of it until right now (and I forgot about Pandora). This doesn't even seem to have the announced 3rd party support that even the N-Gage, Wonderswan or Neo-Geo Pocket Color had.

For that matter, I don't see how Apple believes they actually have a chance to "conquer" the portable industry when the installed base of iPhone users is only around 6 million, well shy of competing with the 37+ million PSP's and the nearly 80 million DS's people have bought. They barely even have a chance to compete. Consider, too, that not all iPhone users are going to go out and use the thing for gaming.

It looks like a slightly bigger Game Boy Micro with an extra d-pad in place of actual buttons.

This gets a big ol' "meh" from me.



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Untouch on 26 August 2008

Looks like an Iphone and a PSP mushed together.



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Grooveraider on 26 August 2008

Very niiiiiice - touchscreen, too. The Wiz will be mine very soon :)



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Grooveraider on 26 August 2008
Red4ADevil said:
two D pads? thats unusual

Robotron 2084 would work pretty well with two D-pads :)

 



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PS360ForTheWin on 26 August 2008

Wiz>iphone

thats all i feel like saying



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Grooveraider on 26 August 2008

The Wiz isn't meant to be "mainstream" which I could care less.

Just as long as I can play XMen Vs Street Fighter on the bus - i'm cool with it !



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brute on 26 August 2008

I dont think it will do well against the DS.



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ganondorf7799 on 26 August 2008
Domicinator said:
This thing doesn't have any more of a chance than the Game Gear, Wonder Swan, Lynx, or any of the others.

 

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akuma587 on 26 August 2008

Come on, someone has to get my Seinfeld reference or I will be upset.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

Luppien on 26 August 2008

Most people seem to think this is a competitor for psp/ds(well they dont thats the point)

This is more like a tweakers/tech item :) It's for people who like to play arcade/snes games emulated and maybe try to get linux to work etc its not a handheld designed to compete with ds and psp its in its own genre propably selling not to much but it doesnt have to sell much :)