Angel posted on Jul 29 2005 at 01:22 PM said:
I already have a DS,PSP,GP32, Pocket PC. that is why i'm not really interested in this system, i have things that can do everything this thing can do. I expect this to have little to 0 commercial support. I don't expect it to do anything more than the GP32 based on other posts in this forum.
You can't compare the GP32-GPX2 to Gameboys.
You had the Gameboy/Gameboy Pocket/Gameboy color. There wasn't a change, except cosmetically, the specs were unchanged. So this is a bad example. The GBA was not a revamped Gameboy Color. That is the point of next Gen consoles. To do something better than the previous, but from what i've read in this thread, and there are alot of replies saying that this machine is not going to emulate that much more than what we already got on the GP32, it just seems that the only thing this machine will actually do much better is play movies.
And your right, nobody knows for sure until it is released. But both sides have no arguement until it is released. You have the people saying it will be crap, and you have people saying it is the greatest thing ever. It could be steaming pile of shit or it could be really good. Nobody knows.
I don't think i'm being negative at all, i'm just trying to understand the logic, and logically it doesn't make sense that this would be the next gen GP32. As for your comment about it being a GP32 in a new case, well people have modded their GP32s with 32/64mb ram chips and can go 200mhz+ so other than 2 more buttons and more colors on screen, i guess this could be considered to some a repackaged GP32.
"based on other posts in this forum..." But the people who made those posts don't really know what it will be able to do, so you shouldn't go by what they say. Based on what Gamepark Holdings themselves have said, I'm looking forward to the GPX2. I'm still gonna wait a bit to get one just to make sure it's not a brick, but I plan on getting one.
Gameboy to Gameboy Pocket... it was made smaller. They had to change something inside in order to do that. It also ran on only 2 AA batteries instead of 4... and I never heard complaints about shorter battery life in the pocket, so something else was different. And Gameboy Color was the same thing as a pocket with a color screen. Also, since you're saying that the GPX2 won't be able to do anything extra or better(except play movies), then why is it NOT a good comparison for the gameboys? Gameboy pocket did nothing extra or better than Gameboy, and the same is true of the Color except that the games were in color then. Sounds like a good comparison to me. And assuming that gamepark holdings isn't completely full of shit, GBC to GBA is also a good comparison for GP32 to GPX2. They're planning on releasing emulators to play the systems we can play on the GP32 right now. It is AT LEAST as powerful as the GP32, so anything GP32 is capable of doing the GPX2 is also capable of doing. It's also more powerful, so it should be able to emulate a few systems better than the GP32 can as well as emulate some new systems the GP32 couldn't emulate. GBA plays all old gameboy games plus some new games made specifically for the GBA. Old gameboy games are like the systems we already have emulated, and new GBA games are like the new systems that couldn't be emulated before. in addition to that, it will be able to play more movie formats and play them better than before. It will have battery life that's about equal to the GP32's. It will also be able to play more audio formats than the GP32 could. While video and audio might not be a big deal, they're still improvements from the predecessor and should still be considered. The GPX2 is an upgrade, just like pretty much every system always has been in relationship to the system that came out before it made by the same company. I loved the GP32 for what it can do, so naturally I'd want another system very similar to it that can do more. I don't want something completely new... like if they threw out the ability to play music and movies and in their place gave us a GPS function. that would be stupid. If you loved the GP32 so much, I can't see why you would hate the GPX.
Your last comment about the changes people made to their systems making the new thing a repackaged GP32 would be valid if perhaps the GP32 was originally packaged the way the people modified them. But it wasn't... they modified them. you just said that. So that part isn't even true. GPX2 will come packaged much more powerful than the GP32 came packaged. 133 vs. 200, and you're also looking at a 2nd processor that, according to gamepark holdings, can be used for "general purposes." correct me if i'm wrong, but doesn't that mean that it can be used to do anything the main one does? Just considering the first processor, it's already almost 60% faster, which is quite a nice upgrade in my opinion.
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One more thing... what exactly do you mean by "better" commercial support? you don't know what GP will have(okay, most likely not as much and probably companies that aren't too well known, but still, you never know), and you don't know exactly what Jizzmondo has/will have yet, so you can't really say that. From the stuff I've seen so far about the Jizzmondo, I couldn't possibly care less if the GPX2 gets that commercial support or not. I don't want to play Crappy 3D games anyway. I'd rather play good classic 2D games. Now for all I know(and this is probably the case), you might prefer newer 3D games, and that's fine. But I wouldn't expect the same stuff you'll see on PS2, X-Box, and Gamecube to show up on the Jizzmondo.
bah, just remembered something else... Gamepark Holdings also said that with the 2 processors, it will actually run faster than a single 400mhz processor would(whether that's true or not, I couldn't tell you, I don't know jack shit about hardware). If that's the case, then hooray! If not, we know it can't be any worse than 200mhz.
