Gizmodo
Not only is Gizmondo coming back, Carl Freer says you can expect to see a new version of the handheld console by the end of the year—this time without the whole defrauding investors and crashing Ferraris schtick, supposedly.
In an interview in the Gizmondo forums, Freer claimed that, "There is still incredible value in the Gizmondo. And with the enhancements we're adding... we feel it's only the beginning of where we can go with the product."
Gizmondo version 2.0 will include a new graphics chip, Windows CE 6.0 (which comes with "a lot of 'new' goodies," Freer says), and a bunch of original content to be downloaded off the gizmondo.com website. It'll be ready by Winter 2008, and the developer community can expect more announcements soon.
Left unanswered by the interview was why Freer thinks anybody is going to trust him with anything a second time around. Maybe he hasn't heard the adage: "Fool me once, your CEO gets sent to jail for three years and your company gets liquidated. Fool me twice... well, you ain't ever gonna fool me twice." [Gizmondo Forum]
Comments
Ummm.....pass.
However next time he ruins a beautiful car, or gets knee-capped let me know.
FAIL! They must have never have heard of the Iphone and PSP all this time.
Awww... well, while I would certainly concur that the quality of the site has been dropping, I wouldn't quite say it was *dead*.
However if Chen is coming out with any more of these fighting words thinks must really be worse than I thought.
/jk
@distantbody: ummm...what?
seems like a bad idea to me.
i could never take that POS seriously
it's great when you google gizmondo, it brings you here.
What? Stefan Ericksson wants a new car?
@ninjatales: yah, those enzos don't slice themselves in half
I would like to see the idiot/investor that decides to buy in on this one.
What about the games? Who could forget aboout such classics such as Agaju: The Sacred Path of Treasure, Furious Phil, Johnny Whatever, and Momma, Can I Mow the Lawn?
Didn't you guys leave the stake in it's heart? Dammit, do I have to do everything myself.
i'm surprised there are investors
Seriously, fuck that.
I ain't touching that thing. Ever.
Who's gonna buy this. Not even people who were hopeful for the last one as they never got their features like GPS satnav functions as the company did an ultimate fail before it was possible. Also the PSP/DS/IPhone has to much of a headstart. Who ever invests in a company with such a poor track record with the odds against them should go to the looney bin.
And in summer 2009, it will be swiftly kicked back in, set on fire, sealed in concrete and then detonated with high explosives.
@rudeadly:
Well duh. They're the same company. Do you think it's just a coincidence that they both have similar sounding names? Gizmodo Gizmondo....
Engadget goes around opening super stores all over Malaysia, and Gizmodo goes marketing electronics under their alter ego GizmoNdo....it's just their way of competing with Engadget.
Are you guys at Gizmodo considering legal action? Their name and text font looks awfully close to yours....a lot closer than that engadget magenta scandal.
@kylo4: Well, it would be kinda odd for a company to file a lawsuit against itself.
Look, I don't know if this is bullshit or not, but those buttons are so close to air, fire, water, and earth from "The Fifth Element" that they really just need to commit the whole way and go with those symbols.
The thing can go to hell from there, I don't care.
I don't see why they would ever consider re-releasing a product with such a horrid reputation. Sorta like the new N-Gage. I'm just not sure where the value comes from. Everyone hating your product? Your ridiculous name? Those stupid squigglebuttons™?
It's like Coke releasing New Coke 2 all of a sudden. Why would anyone think this is a good idea?
Darkness falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand. Made in Sweden on foreign shores, to terrorize y'alls gaming stores.
And whatever investor shall be found, the dumbass soul, the gaming clown, must stand and face the screen from hell:
If you buy it Duracell.
The foulest stench is in the air, the funk of extreme failure, and Greedy CEOs from Tyger's Tomb are closing in to seal your doom.
And, though, fight to stay alive, you have nowhere else to go.
For no mere mortal can resist the evil of the Gizmondo!
[msnbcmedia.msn.com]
@Slash3:
and yet somehow it will STILL live on
Can you imagine teaching a friend to play a game on one of those?
"How do you get into the car?"
"Press the button with the lines on it."
"Which one, there's two."
"The horizontal lines."
"The squiggly ones?"
"Yeah."
"Oh shit, the car's on fire, how do I get out?"
"Mash the 9-dots-but--"
"Forget it, I'm dead."
Anyone who knows anything about the Gizmondo will tell you that the above model was a prototype and was never used. The icons are completely different on the released model.
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