CronoTriggerfan said:
I agree with the first point you made, but the latter, I dunno. I think it's all more of a test of time and user base volume thing. Regardless, I think we'll see good homebrew on both systems, and probably a lot of cross-platform homebrew as well. I can see the Wiz perhaps having more commercially-produced games based on what they're coming out of the gate with, but I'm not sure if there will be more homebrew on Wiz, namely because I think Pandora is toted as a beast, not just an emulation beast.
Homebrew games rarely seem to require a beast. I think that the Wiz will be capable of plenty homebrew wise and it can be harder to get nice looking homebrew games going at a higher resolution such as the Pandoras.
Just... no.
The Pandora LCD supports 480*272 in hardware, as well as hardware scaling with 800*480 (320*240 fits very nice in to that doubled up), so those Wiz games would look just fine on the Pandora screen whichever way you want to run them, they would also look bigger too.
Your dream of selling the Wiz as a homebrew console is misguided at best - the truth is only a tiny number of people would buy it, it may as well be another Gizmondo, Zodiac, Ngage - it just won't work in a commercial way. And I know from bitter experience that wishful thinking won't make it work either - the press won't care, the customers will just buy a PSP or DS and the rest of the internet will post 'fail' on forums about it. It's just a sad reality of the market.
90% of the GP32 and GP2X consoles were sold on emulation of older systems, I'm sure that a fair amount of that 90% also wanted to try out the homebrew too but the emulation was the swing factor which brought them to the GP2X and made them buy it, the homebrew just being a nice bonus, not the other way around.
I think that if GPH really are going to follow this homebrew route I can see trouble up ahead, the saving grace is that the distributors will probably stick to selling its emulation abilities to customers thus keeping the sales moving.
There is a potential that if GPH could get enough quality homebrew made they might get the Wiz in to some of those pile it high sell it cheap stores where you sometimes see JXD style devices - but there in lies the next problem - it's way too expensive for those places.
So, reduce the cost and try that route - the only problem being those JXD devices tend to be there for 1 or 2 months then vanish - they would be getting themselves in to a market which dies very fast indeed and they are back to square one - only with a machine which is now tarred with the JXD style device brush.
GPH should stick to their tried and tested market - Emulation first, ports second and homebrew third. This works very well for them (and us distributors) and I don't understand why all this emulator hate is being thrown about - it is what got them where they are.
Actually Sam, didn't ports and emulators bring you to the GP32/2X in the first place?
Wiz should be even better 
