Hookers, Coke and Booze?They could also send the 300.000 USD to me.
I know what I could use it for
Looks like the pledges are starting to turn. They're at -22 so far today.
The Pyra lost a couple preorders, too. As long as everyone doesn't jump ship they will still get some money. I don't think they care if everyone cancels, but I would be amused if they did because of the comment they posted a few days ago.
It looks like their latest update didn't impress some of the backers that were on the fence. Their poor answers to a few questions in the comments the past few days hasn't helped them any as well.
GPD doesn't care about idle power consumption so why should they? The GPD Q9 loses it's whole battery load in a day when sitting around in stand-by mode so you have to shut it down and boot it whenever you intend to use it.I'm sure a better optimized mobile platform can go lower, afterall there's no way a phone-like device should idle using 4W, and this is measured at the wall which may be less efficient than battery power. But even if you look at peak - idle and take away a bit for better mobile optimized parts and better power regulation you're still not going to have a bunch of headroom to play with in a phone-like form factor. Especially not with two screens. And they're still saying their power target is only 2.2W.
Our dear backers!
I can see many of you now having concerns about our project and we realize that there might be several reasons:
The first is that you are expecting the new prototype with demonstrating how the games run and the whole detailed demonstration of its capabilities. As we've already said, the most intensive work is now being done exactly on the prototype, so we will provide new info very soon.
The second reason is that you don't believe us, you think we don't tell you all the truth, that we don't provide you all info about our team members.
I will share with you about myself:
I'm a passionate gamer, my passion for gaming came in the NES era and since then it has been going on with SNES, PlayStation, Dreamcast, PlayStation 3,4. But what mostly excites me is portable consoles. When I managed to launch Quake 1 port on NGage QD I was really happy. My second favorite console was PSP where I played great native games and emulators of 8, 16-bit. Then came PlayStation Vita and now it is the PGS which I am really excited of. I truly believe in this project, it is really unique, for me it is that free portable console to compensate the lacks of PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3Ds. This is my honesty for you.
The above words may be applied to each member of our team, we are all living with the common idea.
I don't think it is a good idea to aggravate the situation now, when we are working hard on developing the PGS. Sure, you may wait for a retail version, but you also can support us now and stimulate the process of development. We have now 17 days to prove you that we can succeed in our work. You have 17 days to watch the process, maybe it is worth waiting. We are going to achieve a lot over the remaining time.
Thank you.
Indeed: https://www.pyra-handheld.com/boards/members/pgslab.66595/Looks like they've never heard of the GP32 / OpenPandora not to mention GPD...
I don't really understand what point you're trying to make here. Just because they have an account here doesn't mean they've bothered to look around and see what this site and these forums are actually about. That account seems to have been created solely for the purpose of responding to this thread.
You mean the self-proclaimed "handheld enthusiast" hasn't taken the time to see what this forum is actually about?I don't really understand what point you're trying to make here. Just because they have an account here doesn't mean they've bothered to look around and see what this site and these forums are actually about. That account seems to have been created solely for the purpose of responding to this thread.
@ Michael Mrozek (OpenPandora GmbH)
Thank you for your advice. My experience as a portable devices engineer is really not as extensive as that of Pandora team, but we truly realize that expenses may exceed the revenue from Kickstarter. We are ready for that.
I think self-proclaimed is the key word here - with their credibility at an all-time low (not that it was high to begin with) I don't think we can make any assumptions either way based on such evidence.You mean the self-proclaimed "handheld enthusiasts" hasn't taken the time to see what this forum is actually about?
Let's quote him/them:
They are fully aware of the GPD WIN and the Pyra, they have talked about both a number of times. Usually they say the PGS is better than the WIN because it had a better SOC. Which isn't the case anymore of course as the WIN now uses the same SOC as the PGS.
@Alec Arzh - i firmly believe in this product to be honest i won't cancel my preorder in any way ;-) what i believe mostly in PGS is that you have (with even an early prototype!) proven that PGS runs way better than the GPD Win, since i saw some very disturbing videos last night revealing how much lag there was with the GPD Win (it didn't even run at 30fps once!) so i am very proud to be a part of this campaign! i have even talked my mom into buy one :O she loves the idea also! so i think you can firmly be proud of yourselves for this fantastic idea