What Do You Think Is The Most Important Thing To You About The Pandora

[vipin]

Most Important thing ???

This is one of the most important question in my opinion.

Answer is very Simple

Target users, (Age group) mostly from 5yrs to till one have passion to play hand held games.

So taking into account minimum age group its important for a product to have some features in priority.

1) Quality ( think how much roughly a child may use it)
2) Controls (Comfortable)
3) Weight (Light)
4) Battery (Life best weight is to price ratio)
5) Size (Small)
6) Screen ( touch sensitive a must )
6) Interface (OS)
7) Compatibility (OS)
8) Price ( there should be feel of value for money )

Present designs displayed on site has lots of problem, think how will it feel when games are played on it, i think best design will be Gp2x fx-200 + folding keyboard i.e., joystick pad controls and speakers on side of LCD (touch screen) and folding keyboard so that it becomes perfect hand held gaming console. gp32_console

 

[javaJake]

3) Weight (Light)
4) Battery (Life best weight is to price ratio)

Heh, we're getting a hefty device and 16+ hours of battery life. That kinda messes up #3, maybe #4.

 

[Flaming_Trashcan]

I voted for size and weight. The whole idea is to make this thing portable, and I'd just like it to bulge out and pull down my pants the least amount possible.

 

[computarman]

I don't want to influence you, so I won't tell you my answer to it.

Really I think the Pandora started as a dissatisfaction with the GP2X. For the money the GP2X is pretty good. However it has a generally cheap build quality. I had to drill sewing needles into the shoulder button pivot points. The other day I couldn't get the SD card to go in and it turned out that a surface mount capacitor had come off the board and was lodged in the SD slot. I got the capacitor out of the slot and the system seems to be working ok. My point is things like screen and processor are already set, so my next concern is general durability and build quality.

 

[icurafu]

You're missing community.

Without it, the Pandora will fail. Any of the others you listed could be cripled, but it would still do reasonable well because of the community.

 

[gaterooze]

Yes, probably #1 is the devs/community/openness, followed closely by controls (both the breadth of controls it has, and the quality of those components -- with the DaveC Seal of Approval!)

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

the wifi combined with the QWERTY keyboard

 

[trooper]

I voted for size and weight. The whole idea is to make this thing portable, and I'd just like it to bulge out and pull down my pants the least amount possible.

You could limit the amount porn you watch on the pandora + a lot of women do tend to have that effect on men. :rolleyes:

Trooper

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

Well, he could remedy his pants falling down by watching porn.

A paradox!

 

[pglh]

Built-in rechargable batteries and a decent d-pad. I wouldn't mind if the action buttons (A,B,X,Y) were easier to use than the ones on the GP2X as well

 

[cappuchok]

I voted "All of it". It's the combination that makes the device, really. If it had a keyboard and a great screen but no WiFi, I'd write it off as a toy, and the same would be true if it had WiFi but no keyboard and a 320x240 screen. The same goes for if it had all of the above but had poor battery time and used heavy AA's. Controls are important too: it's primary focus is gaming, after all. So really, no single thing of the given options is "the one feature" that compels me to buy it, but there are several single features which, if not present, would be a dealbreaker to me.

 

[fawny]

None of the above.

The most important thing is the masturbatory threads like this where we can all drool over its features.

When it actually becomes available the most important thing about it will be that it is open source with devs and tools ready to go.

 

[drachers]

I was one of the "All of it" types, regardless of how nonsensical the actual poll is.

The bit that I worry about is Nintendo being quite prone to legal action against companies that use a traditional cross-shaped d-pad, as shown in the mockup Pandora renders. Perhaps making the pad assembly a modular replaceable thing would minimise problems, even if it did make the machine more vulnerable to crumbs.

If they can swing the d-pad, I'll dance and dance.