New Portable Console - Meet the Zodiac


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I just came across this awesome looking portable console. It's called the Zodiac, and according to the site, it plays games at console quality. Could this step up to plate with Sony's PSP? My guess is no, but who knows, the PSP is still a ways away. Hopefully the PSP will be cheaper. The Zodiac is $299.99 for the economy model. The Better model is $399.99. They don't ship until October, but this is definetely something I'm gonnna watch for. Who knows, maybe one day (when they're cheaper) we'll all have something like this.

Official Site - Tapwave.com

Store - Tapwave Store

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This definately looks pretty good. From what Sony says the PSP graphics will look like this too, so the only benefit for it may be the 1.8GB disc - if that disc doesn't kill battery life.

The question of course is what is Nintendo hiding and will it compete with these.

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A company named Tapwave is making it, and the site is showing several PS2 titles that it can play. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 and Spy Hunter for example.

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Actually those would be ports of titles that are on the PS2 to be exact, it doesn't actually play PS2 games :p

The graphics are Playstation One level though if you look at Spyhunter, nothing wrong with that though it's a handheld. And THPS4 looks to be using the same 2D 3/4 top-down view that the GBA titles do, with better 3D characters.

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if im not mistaken, the zodiac is running on Palm OS ja? it can also act as a PDA. the design looks kinda like the defunct Wonderswan, but its thin tho. let see how it fight against:

GBA

PSP

N-Gage

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GP32 still takes the cake simply for its emulation capabilities... Really nice to play Crystalis handheld :D

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