Review: Gizmondo lacks value - no games
The AP has released a story all over the earth (really, check the number of papers that picked this one up), that pans the Gizmondo console due primarily to the lack of good games. They say that the Gizmondo "will initially have 14 games to choose from -- most all of them uniformly terrible." The console that has a GPS receiver in it, as well as mobile phone technology allows for a very broad array of capabilities: a VGA digital camera, GPRS cellular wireless networking for text and multimedia messaging ( no voice capability) and a 400-megahertz ARM processor running on a customized version of Microsoft's Windows CE operating system.
Gizmondo games the AP tested, priced between $20 and $40, ranged from a visually attractive but impossible futuristic racer called "Trailblazer" to the ugly, unbearable "Stuntcar Extreme."
The GPS offers some neat potential for truly mobile games. The only such game promised, "Colors," is vaguely described on Gizmondo's Web site as a type of gang warfare game for "the mobile communication era that utilizes every aspect of the Gizmondo functionality." No release date so far."
In the final assessment they say:
"For now, consumers already have a tough choice between the PSP's wide screen beauty, the inventive gameplay of Nintendo Co.'s touch screen Nintendo DS and the massive library for the older Game Boy Advance series. Beyond certain technophiles who require a regular diet of new gadgets, I don't see Gizmondo being much of a player."
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Posted by Scott Martin at October 21, 2005 11:53 AM
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