Android Gaming Handheld: Odroid

[MWeston]

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/android-based-odroid-handheld-gaming-concept-debuts-hurts-our-e/

My reaction is the same as many: "Wonderswan called, they want their control scheme back."

 

[craigix]

What is it with these weird dpads lately?

 

[beavith]

No thank you, that looks very uncomfortable to play on.

 

[mindlord]

Doesn't say how much anywhere yet. If I were looking for something purely for gaming/web I might be interested. However, I suspect the price point is going to put it in the "Why not just spend the extra few bucks and get a Pandora?" range.

 

[Enverex]

Although I'll be curious if it has the SGX535 instead of the 530. What is the price difference between the two?

 

[Username]

And they plan on selling this thing?

 

[mindlord]

Oddly, I remember a quote from from "Giz" website that said the same thing about the Pandora.

 

[atomicthumbs]

 

[(naw)mcx]

Wonderbone.

Half bone, half wonderswan.

 

[trooper]

Family gaming.

Trooper

 

[benjiro]

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/android-based-odroid-handheld-gaming-concept-debuts-hurts-our-e/

My reaction is the same as many: "Wonderswan called, they want their control scheme back."

Basic idea is not bad. To allow both horizontal & vertical control's...

Don't make fun of the ( any other device ) competition, until you have a product in the customers hands

 

[lulzfish]

Half bone, half wonderswan.

I am the bone of my wonderswan.
Plastic is my body, and electricity is my blood.
I have created over a thousand D-Pads.
Unknown to Death.
Nor known to Life.
Have withstood pain to create many control schemes.
Yet, those hands will never hold any controllers.
So, as I pray – “Unlimited D-Pad Works”.

 

[(naw)mcx]

 

[lulzfish]

Oh, so that's what the bone meant. I thought it was something else, like a game console I'd never heard of.

 

[beavith]

Family gaming.

Trooper

Any way to plug in extra controllers?

 

[Sphinxter]

http://www.engadget....ts-hurts-our-e/

My reaction is the same as many: "Wonderswan called, they want their control scheme back."

At last, something to do with that third hand. I may actually understand this one, I bet the lower left dpad sends the same scancodes as the right dpad so it plays vertically as well as horizontally.

 

[fusion_power]

http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/01/android-based-odroid-handheld-gaming-concept-debuts-hurts-our-e/

My reaction is the same as many: "Wonderswan called, they want their control scheme back."

Wow, I always wonder how these (noname) devices pop up straight out of nowhere. ^_^ Maybe I followed the Pandora-Development just too long so this automaticly feels longer than an "surprise device" that just appears, I really want to know how long it has taken to make this Odroid thingy...and if they had to deal with the same problems like the Pandora Team had.

 

[Exophase]

At least someone else outside of Asia is trying to do a gaming handheld. But that chipset is seriously wasted on this poor control scheme and Android, blegh :/

 

[Spykez]

Half bone, half wonderswan.

I am the bone of my wonderswan.
Plastic is my body, and electricity is my blood.
I have created over a thousand D-Pads.
Unknown to Death.
Nor known to Life.
Have withstood pain to create many control schemes.
Yet, those hands will never hold any controllers.
So, as I pray – “Unlimited D-Pad Works”.

oh dear god I love it! How much free time do you have to do such a thing!

 

[lulzfish]

I'm pretty experienced with GIMP, it maybe took 5-10 minutes once I found the pictures.

... I mean, the background is from Fate Stay Night, where the meme originated.
You... didn't think I actually drew / painted that, did you?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FieldOfBlades