As Mr Schiller said last night :”There’s something for everyone” on the Touch and iPhone, Schiller says, with over 21,000 titles for games and entertainment in the App Store.
He went on to say:
“$199 is a magic price point in the iPod market” so the iPod Touch will be lowered in price to just $199 for the 8GB model. For $299, customers can get a 32GB model, and for just $399 a 64GB model will be added to store shelves. It will be up to 50 per cent faster in “almost everything you do”. “This is what the next generation games will be using”, apparently.
None of the Touch range will be similarly equipped!
Eh?
Steve Jobs who returned to the stage was interviewed by David Pogue of the New York Times after the launch and was posed that very question.
His answer was: “Originally, we weren’t exactly sure how to market the Touch. Was it an iPhone without the phone? Was it a pocket computer? What happened was, what customers told us was, they started to see it as a game machine,’ he said. ‘We started to market it that way, and it just took off. And now what we really see is it’s the lowest-cost way to the App Store, and that’s the big draw. So what we were focused on is just reducing the price to $199. We don’t need to add new stuff. We need to get the price down where everyone can afford it.”
So – Money then.
Apple seem to want to attract folk over to the fruity side with a cheaper gaming challenger to the PSP and DS than to add some extra functionality.
The other way of looking at it would be that Apple want to test the water using the Nano before rolling it out on it’s premium touchscreen player.
Leaving no stone unturned Pogue also asked why the Nano only shoots video.
Apparently that’s a ‘technical’ decision as the sensors you need to record video are extremely thin and as such are able to be squeezed into the slim Nano.
However, the ones with enough resolution for stills, especially with autofocus (like the sensor in the iPhone), are too thick for the Nano right now.
Got an email from Think Geek and I just had to share this!
They seem pretty hyped about the GP2X Wiz and you dig your retro gaming then this is gonna be right up your arcade!
This pocket-sized beauty has probably the widest range of emulators for so many game systems, computer platforms and consoles shoved into such a small space.
The spiffy MAME emulation allows you to run all your favorite arcade video game classics, even vector games. Amiga game emulation is rock solid. You can run Atari ST games, Commodore 64, NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, NeoGeo, Flash Games and more too numerous to mention. Of course you’ll need to find yourself some game roms… but that’s what search engines are for right?
The Wiz can also play video files including MPEG4, Xvid and DIVX. You get a built in e-book reader, calendar, voice recorder… etc….
You get 1GB of storage built-in and you can expand on this with the SD (SDHC) card slot.
The high-res touchscreen makes navigation easy and the gaming controls feature a d-pad on the left with buttons/d-pad on the right and two shoulder buttons on the top. It’s plenty good for anything a retro game can dish out. There is an active development community for the GP2X Wiz and with a respectable ARM9 533MHz Processor overclockable to 800Mhz you’ve got plenty of power to play with if you’re interested to write your own applications.
Before you slap your hard-earned down for one it’s worth mentioning that the Wiz does not come with any emulator software or game roms pre-installed.
You’ll need to download the freeware emulator for the console or computer system you want to emulate. Then you’ll need to unzip the emulator software, and copy it to an SD card along with some game roms you’ve downloaded.
Then start-up the Wiz, go into the “launcher” option and run the emulator. Inside the emulator you’ll choose the rom you want to load and then the game can begin. Each emulator software interface is a bit different and most give you the option to overclock the Wiz to get the best performance.
Remember that you are running emulator software… most games work perfectly, but some may run slow or be glitchy. You may have to configure the controls to work well with the game you want to play. Documentation is not always the best, so you might need to put in a bit of effort to figure things out. If any of this scares you, then you may want to reconsider your purchase.
This could have been beautiful!
This totally cool looking C64 emulator was set to bring back my teenage years but no!
Apple has officially rejected another app that at first glance seems harmless, genius and fun.
The Commodore 64 emulator from Manomio offered the coolness of a realistic joystick and keyboard, portrait and landscape gaming, and a fully licensed C64 emulator code.
Apple [...]
It’s getting silly!
I’m trying to avoid reporting everything I hear about the new iPhone but this was too daft to miss and not share.
Apparently the new iPhone (back to being the Video) will be offered in 12 variants, according to a screenshot leaked to iSpazio from a Canadian operator.
Noteworthy is the colourful 64GB models of the [...]
Kingston, the renowned memory maker have just pushed their DataTraveler line a bit further and released the Kingston DataTraveler 150 USB 64GB.
Why bother with a portable hard drive when you could just drop this in your pocket, bag or even attach it to your keys?
The only downside I can see is that you’re probably more likely to leave [...]
If you’re looking for something that’s like an iPod then you could do a lot worse than to check this little beauty out!
The Cowon O2 is coming to the UK and it is more than adequate to taunt the iPod and blow raspberries at the best of the rest.
Memory for all your media ranges from 16GB to [...]
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