I wanted to buy one when EB-Gamez announced that they'd sell
them in their stores here in Denmark, but all of a sudden Nintendo DS came onto the marked - and EB-Gamez decided to ditch the Gizmondo - reason: The price tag was upped to 3200,- Danish Crowns (DKK) about 632 US Dollars, needless to say - no one in their right mind would pay over 600 bucks for a portable games console - no matter HOW cool it would be. (Ok...maybe I'd be geeky enough if there where at all stores around here to sell them...but there weren't so - EOD).

The design needs to be more functional and sleeker too - kind of sleek like the PSP and functional like the DS lite, and add the versatility of a PDA and you've probably got yourself a winner. In order to win though...you'd need a SERIOUS *SS user base to fanboy it up to heaven and above...to do that...you'd have to lose money first...and get the money to lose, and then watch the fanboys enjoy it so much that they'll practially develop anything for it...and make the "idiot-geeks" that can't code but love to use gadgets...buy it because there are so many nerdy fanboys that have one and thus produce heaps of software for free for it...kind of like LINUX and its APPS...

And then...BOOM! Something wonderful happens.

Now...if you go something crappy like doubling the price, overcharging for games, dropping proprietary support, promising stuff you can't possibly keep (such as worldwide support in every store etc.) not to mention makes development internal only, or a select few or by registration only etc. etc...then you WILL lose BIG TIME and go broke before you can even spell Gizmondo.

Good luck

JoOngle

That leaves what? The idea to create a craptastic game system? I love it when businesses xerox their ideas from others.

Silentheero

MagnoliaBoy

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funtasticguy

txtanner88

ripfire4

"The company would like to point out that its hot dog-flavored paper clips would have enjoyed record sales numbers had any actual product been made and sold in stores. So it's not our fault. Blame the guys who never made them and didn't put them up for sale."

I could think of a number of products that could have succeeded had I actually made them. But then again, I am not a business.

theespacepope

If you'd have asked me last week "name one thing that WILL NOT happen next week", I probably would have said "Gizmondo coming back".

bpatten

I always loved my Cybiko Xtreme, I thought it was a great idea with loads of potential... IMO it just wasn't marketed properly. The Gizmondo was just like that...only it was a little crap altogether (to me it never seemed like much thought had gone into any of it). The Zodiac just couldn't find the right market.

If they bought the Gizmondo back with a real name (they could call it the Gizmondo *something*, then we could just refer to it as the *something*), gave it a real design, real operating system (none of this Windows CE crap) something like Windows Mobile, Symbian or LINUX FOR GAWDS SAKE. And kept the price low, then I think this product could work...intergrate it with Facebook, Myspace or make a new social networking site for Gizmondo users - that would add 'sellability'.

But, if they just re-release the exact same product, then I think we have to (thankfully) accept that the Gizmondo is doomed to the crap pile for ever...

XHA

SAVE THE ENZOS!

sansovino

MagnoliaBoy

xint

do a search for gizmondo

Stacky Botrus

schrosa

Well, except you, Dietrich.

strider_mt2k