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Game Informer link: http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200603/N06.0301.1632.46519.htmProject link: http://www.origamiproject.comLooks nice. Easy to carry around. Will it replace laptops? Nah I don't think so.
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It's that big and they still call it portable?? :lol: Quote:Perhaps the most interesting gaming feature, however, is Origami’s ability to connect to Xbox 360s. Once connected to a 360, presumably through the USB ports, Origami is expected to function as a second screen for compatible games. Oh and it also has a touch screen. Nice. 8) Where did we see something like that before? ... :wink:
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Interesting. Now, it's not going to work, but still, interesting.
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"manuel" wrote:It's that big and they still call it portable?? :lol: Much more portable than a laptop/tablet PC, which seems to be the market they're trying to sell to. Quote:Oh and it also has a touch screen. Nice. 8)
Where did we see something like that before? ... : uhhh, in PDAs and various other electronics for the past 10 years?
 
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I don't think it will sell well in that market.
They clearly head for the mobile gaming market and that's where they will fail, too.
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"manuel" wrote:I don't think it will sell well in that market.
They clearly head for the mobile gaming market and that's where they will fail, too. Clearly? where is the evidence of this? The 5 second portion of the clip where Halo was being played on it? Vs. the other 6 minutes of the clip where it was used as an audio player, photo editor, remote, email device, and map.
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"NES-Luke" wrote:The 5 second portion of the clip where Halo was being played on it? Vs. the other 6 minutes of the clip where it was used as an audio player, photo editor, remote, email device, and map. that's like saying the PSP wasn't aimed towards gamers....
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It's not in the clip.
Don't you see that MS is trying to get into the handheld (game machine) market, too? Maybe not now. They will try out how their chances are.
And that starts with a little machine that can do much, but nothing of that really well. Reminds me of the PSP somehow. It plays videos, displays photos, you can surf the internet with it and play games. The drawback is, you need expensive memory sticks to store videos on, videos on UMDs are expensive and you have no TV out, games aren't that interesting. If they were, they'd sell more.
I think it's because of Sony's failure here that MS see their chance of entering this market. But thanks to Sony they also see the risks and try to minimize their risk by also aiming it at people who want to do things with it other than play.
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"Commander Campkill" wrote:"NES-Luke" wrote:The 5 second portion of the clip where Halo was being played on it? Vs. the other 6 minutes of the clip where it was used as an audio player, photo editor, remote, email device, and map. that's like saying the PSP wasn't aimed towards gamers.... Yep, I'm going to debate the fact that something with the PLAYSTATION name was marketed to gamers... First of all, this Origami thing isn't even announced yet, so nobody knows what it is or what the intended market is. from the video clip (the only information we have that isn't speculation) I've formed the opinion that it's not primarily a gaming device. which I feel is a very accurate analysis. it's not a DS rip off because it has a touch screen, as I stated, THOUSANDS of things for the past 10 years have had touch screens. from what we've seen, using the logic the two of you are using, we could scream that any mobile device that is capable of playing any game is marketed toward gamers. You know, that Apple Newton sure was a hardcore game machine. I think both of you need to stop being such fanboys, and stop feeling so threatened by a product that isn't even officially announced.
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OK, it sounds kinda interesting, but after reading all this, I began to understand it this way...It seems that they belive that this is a totally new feature in all ways, well, it is a new feature, but it's not like it has all the things and ideas to it that the others before it.
What about the PSP, that had a possiblity to browse on the internet with. Yeah, sure it haven't got a touchable screen, but it doesn't make a huge difference to me. However, it's kinda annoying when something new comes out (for example the PSP,) and then all of a sudden something new comes out right after it. So then a guy has used all his money on the PSP, without knowing anything about the new feature. It's their way of making more money I guess...Although I belive they would have gone more far with a little more honesty, or should I call it "information".
Nevertheless, I think I'll check it out, to see just how "revolutionary" this "little" thing is. :lol:
Not really something I would have bought anyway...
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"NES-Luke" wrote:I think both of you need to stop being such fanboys, and stop feeling so threatened by a product that isn't even officially announced. i wasn't being fanboyish, or threatened. i was simply saying....
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This might be designed to compete with the new Mac mini...
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Nobody is feeling threatened by anything here. And don't try to stop me from being a fanboy. :P I just said that I don't think this thing will have success, no matter at whom it is aimed. Am I a fanboy for that? And I didn't say it's a DS ripoff. Please read my posts a bit more thoroughly. I didn't compare it to any other machine out there. I just said that everything in there was already present in other devices (like e.g. the DS or the PSP or tablet PCs). Quote:using the logic the two of you are using, we could scream that any mobile device that is capable of playing any game is marketed toward gamers Is that wrong? If something can play games as one of (maybe) many features it WILL be marketed towards players, too. Not that this is a bad thing. I don't have anything against it. That's the market. It would be stupid NOT to market it towards gamers, because those have most of the money and spend it on hardware. And nobody was screaming BTW. I just want to be able to express my opinion about a device like that, without being called fanboy (I am one, but that doesn't have to do anything with my posts above) for no reason. Speaking of fanboy-ism: I think we've grown a little MS fanboy here. :wink:
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"manuel" wrote:I just said that I don't think this thing will have success, no matter at whom it is aimed. Am I a fanboy for that? Considering we know absolutely nothing about it beyond some vague propoganda video, yes sir, that does make you a fanboy. "manuel" wrote:And I didn't say it's a DS ripoff. Please read my posts a bit more thoroughly. I didn't compare it to any other machine out there. I just said that everything in there was already present in other devices (like e.g. the DS or the PSP or tablet PCs). "manuel" wrote:Oh and it also has a touch screen. Nice. 8)
Where did we see something like that before? ... :wink: I believe it was implied that you felt it was a DS ripoff... "manuel" wrote:Quote:using the logic the two of you are using, we could scream that any mobile device that is capable of playing any game is marketed toward gamers Is that wrong? If something can play games as one of (maybe) many features it WILL be marketed towards players, too. Not that this is a bad thing. I don't have anything against it. That's the market. It would be stupid NOT to market it towards gamers, because those have most of the money and spend it on hardware. When you made this initial statement [quote:495dc262b5="manuel"]They clearly head for the mobile gaming market and that's where they will fail, too.[/quote] It's as if you're saying it was being developed to be in clear competition with the DS and any other mobile gaming device. Which is very obviously not the case, based on the VERY small portion of the clip that was related to games. "manuel" wrote:I just want to be able to express my opinion about a device like that, without being called fanboy (I am one, but that doesn't have to do anything with my posts above) for no reason. Well, no offense, but you'll be labeled as a fanboy when you bash a product that isn't announced and nobody knows anything about simply because it MIGHT be competition for the DS "manuel" wrote:Speaking of fanboy-ism:
I think we've grown a little MS fanboy here. :wink: Bit hypocritical, aren't we? I've said nothing fanboy-ish at all, I'm simply stating the flaws in your logic when you state that it'll fail without knowing anything about the product in question. the only type of fanboy I may be accused of being is an anti-sony fanboy. :)
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I didn't say or imply it's a DS ripoff. If I meant so I'd write it that way. I know that Nintendo didn't invent the touch pen, so they can't be ripped off here. Quote:Well, no offense, but you'll be labeled as a fanboy when you bash a product that isn't announced and nobody knows anything about simply because it MIGHT be competition for the DS
I didn't bash that thing. I said I think it won't have success. That's different from bashing. For me "bashing" means to talk badly about it. And I surely didn't do that. E.g. I bashed the N-Gage. That's just a bad piece of hardware. You had to take the battery off to put a game card in. But now enough of this. That's no fight.
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BAMQuote:As we learned last week, the "Origami" has no aspirations of being a mini fragbox, and will instead be marketed as an all-purpose consumer and business device.
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