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Title: Another handheld on Kickstarter...
Post by: Gryzor on 09:43, 10 January 13
I saw this from a tweet by Optimus6128:
GCW-Zero: Open Source Gaming Handheld by Justin Barwick - Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gcw/gcw-zero-open-source-gaming-handheld)


It's nice, but... is there room for one? Also, not sure I like the small screen and 320x240 resolution...
Title: Re: Another handheld on Kickstarter...
Post by: Sykobee (Briggsy) on 10:41, 10 January 13
Quote from: Gryzor on 09:43, 10 January 13
I saw this from a tweet by Optimus6128:
GCW-Zero: Open Source Gaming Handheld by Justin Barwick - Kickstarter (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gcw/gcw-zero-open-source-gaming-handheld)


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.
Title: Re: Another handheld on Kickstarter...
Post by: Gryzor on 14:23, 10 January 13
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 :D

Plus, such a small resolution/screen kind of excludes other uses that would be possible with the rest of the hardware specs.
Title: Re: Another handheld on Kickstarter...
Post by: TotO on 14:31, 10 January 13
Just one more actual chines "GP2 like" linux portable console sold for 129$ ...
(specs match for all... CPU, GPU, RAM, I/O, ...)
Title: Re: Another handheld on Kickstarter...
Post by: Gryzor on 14:39, 10 January 13
Yeah, what I thought myself, with no real special selling point, unless you count the app store they say they want to build. 
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