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Sunday Comics: Dead Island That’s Swedish for “the slammer.” Bo Eriksson, lesser known for his role heading the failed portable called Gizmondo, more known for bizarre behaviour including wrecked cars and arson threats, is headed there.
Tiger Telematics’ spectacularly failed Gizmondo portable game machine may be the most exciting industry misfires of all time. Someone thinks it’s potentially exciting enough to be brought to the silver screen.
Gizmondo are itching for a rematch with the market. And this time, no Ferraris. Problem is, there’s an economic downturn going on at the moment, which means Gizmondo 2 isn’t in the best shape.
There is absolutely no way this will not happen. Rich Jenkins of Media Power has let a Swedish journalist see the new Gizmondo and confirmed it will be on sale by the end of the year. This year, before you ask.
The first Gizmondo was.. not very successful, but the new device – with its NVIDIA graphics and the option of either Windows CE or Google’s Android as an OS is sure to be a winner, right?
A games handheld running Android could be a goer – there should be plenty of decent Android ports of around soon, but when was the last time you went out of your way to play a game on Windows CE? Can you even name 3 games that run on that platform?
Gizmondo 2 Is Here – Sales Start In November/December [The Nordic Link via MCV]
Today during Carl Freer’s Georgia Tech speech, he revealed that while his company plans to release the Gizmondo with unchanged hardware (save for a new graphics chip) to the market in the near future, the company is already collaborating with NVIDIA on a completely new circuit board for a future Gizmondo.
He explained that since the platform “could never compete with Sony or Nintendo in content”, they planned to take a completely open source approach instead, promoting software development from within universities. He also added, “If we do well, our roadmap entails expanding the hardware and supporting full telephony”. For the full story, make sure to catch our liveblog of the event.
Carl Freer founded Gizmondo back in 2002, the idea for the ultimate handheld gaming system stemming from a child tracking product he had been developing. Three years later he resigned from his position as Chairman of the Board, the company and product both having failed miserably. Now three years later, Freer is spearheading the relaunch of the Gizmondo, ready to take another shot at the market. In a talk entitled “High Tech Ventures in Mobile Gaming and Media” at Georgia Tech, Freer will discuss his experience starting and running high tech companies, with a focus on the failure and forthcoming rebirth of the Gizmondo. Let’s see what the man has to say.
Founder and former Chairman of the Board of Gizmondo is giving a lunchtime talk at Georgia Tech today entitled, “High Tech Ventures in Mobile Gaming and Media”, in which he will discuss the failure and impending rebirth of the handheld gaming device as well as his projects that didn’t die a horrible death. Technology willing we’ll be liveblogging the event at noon, so stay tuned!
Time to party like it’s 2005! Former Gizmondo chairman Carl Freer must be experiencing some pretty hardcore déjà vu as he reluctantly tells Swedish news site Realtid.se that the little handheld that most definitely didn’t would be pushed back to late 2008, missing the originally promised May relaunch date. My sentiments right now neatly echo Ashcraft’s from back in October of 2005 – the umpteenth time the Gizmondo was delayed in the State. Who gives a rat’s arse? The only way I will ever own a Gizmondo is if they shipped me a free one, and even then it better damn well not say Gizmondo on the box or I’ll refuse delivery.
Report: Gizmondo delayed until end of 2008 [GameSpot]
Despite yesterdays excellent rumour smash performed by our sister site Gizmodo, it seems like the doomed Gizmondo handheld is destined to return to the market, thanks to the efforts of UK electronics design firm Plextek. Eurogamer spoke this morning with Plextek’s technical director Ian Murphy, who confirmed the rumored resurrection. “There are a few things to do, and it will be a while before that happens,” Murphy continued. “But yes, the product has been recovered from the liquidators and we are bringing it back to market.”
Murphy contends that the only reason the Gizmondo failed in the first place was an overall failure to get the product to market – a failure they plan to rectify later this year. While most of the Gizmondo folks – including convicted criminal and car abuser Stefan Eriksson – will not be attached to the project, former Gizmondo Europe chairman Carl Freer is fully on board. All I can say is that now is the perfect time to reintroduce another handheld to the market, what with how much the PSP and DS are struggling…oh wait.
Gizmondo is coming back – it’s official [Eurogamer]
Like you, brother site Gizmodo was recently informed of a web site for Gizmondo Live, one that promised a rebirth of the dead as a doornail handheld from Tiger Telematics. The reason for so many folks becoming familiar with the site that promises a new Gizmondo with an “open source environment” and “exciting psychic worlds” that will “democratise gaming” may be due to the prison release of a former executive. Regardless, hints that Gizmondo will rise from the ashes are greatly exaggerated, says sister site Gizmodo.
They rumour smash the whole scenario, from bullshit quotes from former execs to poor Swedish sources to theories that the site is the work of a prankster. There’s not much in the way of hard evidence, but we genuinely hope that no one sinks their money into such a poorly considered venture.
Gizmondo Is Dead, Dead, Dead. DEAD and Not Coming Back [Gizmodo AU]
