China is releasing a new console called the Ebox.
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I raffed out roud.
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This should be funny, I bet if Wii or kinect outsells it they will ban Kinect and wii so its the only version of its type of console that is avaliable
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This should be funny, I bet if Wii or kinect outsells it they will ban Kinect and wii so its the only version of its type of console that is avaliable
I bet it'll have 1 or 2 good games, like the Jaguar. The rest will suck. People who grew up on the Ebox will wistfully remember the fun they had from the tiny amount of good games, and then look at the market in Japan and North America and marvel at the selection.
To be fair, it would be better for the developers if there was just one platform in a certain sense. It gives you a known target to shoot for and allows for the resources normally used to port the game to be instead allocated to the production and polish of the game itself, or simply held in reserve for other projects.Amphoteric said:
It doesn't really look like a box to me.
Looks more like a case for smuggling organs...........Wich, one could say, is also a game.
Looks more like a case for smuggling organs...........Wich, one could say, is also a game.
Hey ... it's at least being made by a company we'll have heard of, that ended up buying IBM's laptop division off them. It's got half a chance of not sucking. (Only half, because 50/50 is about as good as anyone can hope for - Sega went down after all, and other large companies such as NEC that had a go at the gaming market on previous occasions)
Though there's every likelihood that it'll be a NES clone with some kind of upgraded Power Glove to wave at it, it won't necessarily be so just because everything else coming out of China with a ripoff name and concept also is.
>> I don't think it's a good idea for 3 companies to monopolise...
Well, we're down from 4, not counting all the truly pitiful also rans and vapourwear-purveyors. Or from 7+ to 6+ if you count Apple, SNK (Wonderswan et al) and all the PC hardware manufacturers (plus MS?) as the additional "1+". Market economy, get used to it. Anyone can try and fail. If Sega - and earlier, Atari and Panasonic (and SNK again) - had tried a bit harder or simply been luckier, we may currently have a 1980s formatclash going on, with 5th-gen descendants of the Jaguar, 3DO and Neo Geo also battling it out alongside, or instead of, the present day/active reality contenders.
It's gotta be better than the PRC where it's basically one manufacturer - the state - looking after things in a lot of industries? Where a lot of people's idea of a decent computer is a NES with a keyboard (for god's sake someone make a cheap Amiga clone or embedded Pentium-MMX PC with TV-out and start selling it to those poor bastards, you'll rake it in and do good work for quality-of-life), or that strange handheld sorta-PSX-level thing that Ashens reviewed last year. This could well be a revolution, particularly if it brings a little extra money-backed competition to the west, and opens an avenue for more affordable good quality gaming and computing machinery "back there".
Though there's every likelihood that it'll be a NES clone with some kind of upgraded Power Glove to wave at it, it won't necessarily be so just because everything else coming out of China with a ripoff name and concept also is.
>> I don't think it's a good idea for 3 companies to monopolise...
Well, we're down from 4, not counting all the truly pitiful also rans and vapourwear-purveyors. Or from 7+ to 6+ if you count Apple, SNK (Wonderswan et al) and all the PC hardware manufacturers (plus MS?) as the additional "1+". Market economy, get used to it. Anyone can try and fail. If Sega - and earlier, Atari and Panasonic (and SNK again) - had tried a bit harder or simply been luckier, we may currently have a 1980s formatclash going on, with 5th-gen descendants of the Jaguar, 3DO and Neo Geo also battling it out alongside, or instead of, the present day/active reality contenders.
It's gotta be better than the PRC where it's basically one manufacturer - the state - looking after things in a lot of industries? Where a lot of people's idea of a decent computer is a NES with a keyboard (for god's sake someone make a cheap Amiga clone or embedded Pentium-MMX PC with TV-out and start selling it to those poor bastards, you'll rake it in and do good work for quality-of-life), or that strange handheld sorta-PSX-level thing that Ashens reviewed last year. This could well be a revolution, particularly if it brings a little extra money-backed competition to the west, and opens an avenue for more affordable good quality gaming and computing machinery "back there".
