christo930
Well-Known Member
I was checking out the wiki page for The Craiginator and I must say I was not thrilled. I've been a supporter for the GP line since very early 04 (I got my gp32 for xmas o3) and, for me at least, the big draw is the ability to play old school games on the go or without botherin my wife by taking up the tv. I also use it for when I'm on public transit which I use frequently to go to center city philadelphia. To me, buying a handheld with no commercial support to play modern 3d games seems pointless. The large, high res screen doesn't seem to lend it self to older 2d games. OTOH, if older 2d games is what you want, you could always stick with the gp2x as I suspect it will be supported due to the ease of porting linux games and emulators over to the gp2x. So really, who is it that will want The Craiginator? People who want to emulate newer systems and people who have no open source system already. But I'm really turned off by the price tag. Estimated at $350 + VAT (17% tax?), shipping from England probably around $20 or more if the dollar keeps falling. This could easily be a $400 investment when all is said and done and that doesn't include memory cards (unless you are upgrading and can use your old cards, but most likely you will want the larger cards). Add in a new battery charger and extra battery and you may be apraching $475 to $500 (american dollars). The weak dollar is making matters worse and the dollar is probably going to be worth even less by the time The Craiginator is available. Remember, that significantly increases price, as well as shipping. It just seems like this is a great piece of tech, but too expesnive and doesn't really know where it wants to be. Is this kind of money worth gba, snes sfx chips, psx and N64 (most likely saturn and jaguar won't work). It might be great if lots of pc games can be ported over and use the 3d hardware to play quake 3 and such. I'm not sure if the EEE is going to be competition or not. It is kind of big, but it is small compared to other laptops and should be able to run lots of emulators (but probably not 3d). If I had to choose, I'd probably grab the EEE. Where does the jxd 301 fit in all this? It seems the developers are jumping on to this and we should be seeing something soon. But if The Craiginator is going to cost $350 + 17% vat + $20 + dollars shipping, I will be forced to skip no matter what, because I just can't justify a $400 investment for a handheld video game system, especially when it really isn't ideal for what I want (2d games and emulators) I'll have to look at lots of black bars or scalled video which I think is ugly (at least on the other systems.) Maybe a chinese builder with an American distributer could help bring the price down in america.
Chris
Chris
