Another handheld on Kickstarter...

[Gryzor]

I saw this from a tweet by Optimus6128:
GCW-Zero: Open Source Gaming Handheld by Justin Barwick - Kickstarter


It's nice, but... is there room for one? Also, not sure I like the small screen and 320x240 resolution...

[Sykobee (Briggsy)]

I saw this from a tweet by Optimus6128:
GCW-Zero: Open Source Gaming Handheld by Justin Barwick - Kickstarter


It's nice, but... is there room for one? Also, not sure I like the small screen and 320x240 resolution...

No, there really isn't room for one. And that resolution really is too low, especially for a $135+ console. Could be a way to get hold of a 1GHz MIPS devices I guess.

[Gryzor]

I understand the devs go for retro games, so a native 320x240 resolution would be nice. But even there, the screen is too small.

Then again, they also say they want it to play old PC games, so the resolution mean... REALLY old games

Plus, such a small resolution/screen kind of excludes other uses that would be possible with the rest of the hardware specs.

[TotO]

Just one more actual chines "GP2 like" linux portable console sold for 129$ ...
(specs match for all... CPU, GPU, RAM, I/O, ...)

[Gryzor]

Yeah, what I thought myself, with no real special selling point, unless you count the app store they say they want to build.