hitbyambulance
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from that same site - what's the veracity of this info?
(lik-sang becomes lik-blood. haha. lik-sangre!)
that article links to a very interesing interview:
[Pockett.net] - the GP2X, this Korean game console, would have run out with less than 10.000 specimens at the end of the year 2006. Disappointing.
30.000 to 50.000 consoles sold, according to sources', more or less official. It is not at all the same sound of bell which has just reached us today, in connection with the GP2X: this multi-media game console Korean, which makes succession with from now on celebrates GP32, would have been sold only with 10.000 specimens until December 2006.
A figure very in lower part of the sales of the GP32 which would have run out, it, with approximately, 25.000 specimens. What is really astonishing, if the fact is considered that the GP2X proposes much less commercial plays than the GP32 (here are some examples), no distribution in shop (contrary with what was the case for the GP32 for example in Korea or Spain) and that it does not have any more the support of fire Lik-Blood, a former giant of the sale in line which since had to close its doors because of a lawsuit brought by Sony.
Our sources, two former employees of Game Park Holdings who preferred to leave the ship before it does not sink definitively, draw up a sad assessment of this adventure, tinted internal incompetences and conflicts. They wish to remain for the moment anonymities and not to comment on more the topicality of the company.
For recall, here another testimony published a few times ago on Pockett Videogames. Chronicle of an announced bankruptcy?
(lik-sang becomes lik-blood. haha. lik-sangre!)
that article links to a very interesing interview:
[Pockett.net] - Fx-Man, a young impassioned French of portable consoles, had sent a test of play for Neo Geo Pocket to Pocket Magazine, which will publish it. A few years later, it appeased its passion while working for the Korean manufacturers of consoles GP32 and GP2X. It tells us the back of the decoration.
Can you present yourself in a few words?
I am Fx-Man, 29 years, fans of plays vidéos since Atari 2600 and collector of portable consoles since nearly 5 years. I had a name on the Web, a few years ago, by creating the first site amateur on the GP32. Since, I gave up and to my site semi blog devotes me.
How long did you work with Gamepark? What did you make for them?
I know, them to have met, Gamepark and Gamepark Holdings since 2002 (during the ECTS). It is at that time that I started to make small things for Gamepark: presence on living rooms (the Koreans do not speak English, which is not practical), search for developers… But it is as from March 2006 that very accelerated. Gamepark Holdings invited me in Seoul to require councils of me on the procedure to Europe. And as of the next month, I worked officially for them, while being paid (what was not the case of the time of Gamepark). In all, that will have lasted two months.
Why that didn't it go according to you?
Gamepark and Gamepark Holdings, and apparently the Koreans in general, tend to estimate that the world must come to them, and not the reverse. For example, they do not start again or seldom their contacts abroad. They take their time. They want to do everything with their manner, and not with that of the countries customers. It is with this type of behavior that Gamepark missed a contract with Atari for the exit by the GP32 in the USA. An obvious example: one of the persons in charge for Gamepark Holdings, of the time when it worked in another limps (Samsung not to quote it), had left to treat some commercial contracts in Tunisia, there is ten year. They arrived in full period of the Ramadan. Cavity, difficult to negotiate in day with people who do not eat. Difficult also when the festival starts. They thus decided to set out again, without anything to make, estimating that there was no future in the Maghreb countries. Perhaps that if they had waited one month, all would have occurred very well. They never tried to include/understand the habits of the country.
Do you have other anecdotes to tell?
They asked me to establish contacts with the press of various European countries. Once it was done, they decided that finally, only the United Kingdom and Spain were interesting… I nevertheless offered my GP2X MK2 to PC Plays to obtain a good article on the console.
Side of the contacts with the developers, I did not tire myself too much, considering it was probable that there would be no return. I nevertheless offered to a developer a console.
The installation of a forum of discussion had started well. But, at the end of one month, the owner decided not to answer more the list of suggestions and problems which I sent. Indeed, it was afraid which one realizes that the machine had many problems… You all noted it, the forum Gamepark Holdings died.
We organized a contest of development, unceasingly delayed. Many complained about rules. Fortunately, you did not know the initial ones! The final payment was mainly written by me (I even took again certain points of the ADIC), except the part on the licences and the copyright. I wanted that the page of the contest is in several languages (I proposed for French). At the beginning, they were very justified, then… any more. I considered it important to make a press release. It never arrived. At the beginning of August, 6 hours before the takeoff of my plane for the holidays, they said to me that finally, the press release, it was a good idea and they asked me to write it in English French/and to send it to all the press! Useless to say that I did not do anything.
I also tried to convince them to organize itself in-house. Did you know that they are only one score, that they are hated and do not speak between them? There is in the company of the very qualified people. Unfortunately, there are thenull ones which blocks all.
Among the various ideas suggested, my greater success was the presence in Game Convention in Germany (it took me time to convince them to make displacement). I even found the organization to them Korean which helped them! But, there still, large failure: they were limited to the professional section (thus without visibility near general public) and, once more, they did not want to make of press release! Thus nobody spoke about them (note: present on the spot, the drafting of Pocket Videogames did not find the stand of Gamepark Holdings. It was not indicated.)
Lastly, I was to meet them in Paris, after the German living room. As I left on holiday during a month, I had asked them to choose a date and a place of appointment before my departure. Well cavity, they wrote to me during my absence, passed to Paris and… did not see me.
According to you, which are the reasons to buy or not to buy a GP2X today?
The principal reason is the great quantity of amateurs productions available for this machine. When one looks at the with dimensions one of the emulation, one can make turn almost perfectly of many machines like Neo-Geo, the PC Engine, Super Nintendo, Megadrive… Also, the system is planned for, useless traficoter its console or to use external accessories as on PSP or DS. The format of cartouches used is SD-Card, not very expensive and usable in the majority of the numerical cameras. On the other hand, a person who is not interested in the emulation, is not developer in the heart or which does not like that the modern plays will have to go its way.
Are you informed of the projects of the company?
There is much: to make a new model with the GPS integrated, able to make 3D, to integrate the GP2X in various machines like televisions or readers DVD…
Do you believe that there is place for a small manufacturer with with dimensions of the DS of Nintendo and PSP of Sony?
It is possible, and Gizmondo could have had this place: there were the money and the support of the bankers, distributors, developers. Unfortunately, the persons in charge preferred to treat to beautiful cars, beautiful girls and beautiful huts.
Thank you in Fx-Man for this maintenance!
