TechEBlog just brought my attention to this impressive video. Granted, the frame rate isn't so great, but give it a few years and I can definitely see cell phone gaming making Sony and Nintendo hot around the collar. The video is a quick few minutes of the first level from
Duke Nuken 3D. There is no audio in the video, so it's hard to tell how good this is working on the cell phone. However, you
can download the game and give it a test yourself. If you have a phone that can handle it, then please let us know how well it works.
So, what's your take on this? Do you think Sony and Nintendo will counteract this and make it so you can use your handhelds as a phone? There are already hacks to make your DS a phone. Not to mention Sony has been making cell phones for years and could easily make a PSP cell phone hybrid for their next version of the console. Do I dare say the N-Gage could make a come back as well?
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10:46 PM on 01.31.2007
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O yeh and duke nukem
That dick is almost as long as the duke nukem forever development time. lawlz
Obviously not being a phone and having sucky memory limitations didn't help much for its gaming potential. Its possible for newer smartphones to include improved versions of this technology although I think it'll take a similar directx style push on MS part to get gaming mainstream outside of Java ports.
And DS-wifi chat can not be called 'software that turns your DS into a phone'.
I think if phones continue to converge with media players and PDAs Nintendo and Sony will start to see a serious challenge. It'll be the PC vs Mac type of scenario where they just won't be able to compete with the hardware on variety or price.
I really want to replace my phone and pda with a something that'll do all the tricks, right now I'm thinking it'll take a few more years and might just get one of these instead, ETEN X500, :)))
$2.50 Australian for an N-Gage game is not a bad price.
Looks pretty cool but atleast 50% of normal gamespeed on that phone.
Yeah, cellphone games have to go in a completely opposite direction than consolde/traditional handheld to be taken seriously.
What would clearly work? A warioware type game that uses a cellphone's camera, slider/clamshell and simple onebutton actions. Fun quick easy.
Or maybe a mystery game that sends you text messages periodically, or a crime solver /trivia game that has you getting text messages with clues or leads through out the day / week / hour.
From a tech standpoint, this is definitely a sign of what could be done.
I had one word for him:
INTERFACE
The reason people don't play them is becasue it's just too tricky to use. The N-Gage was a disaster, and I just can't see things improving in the future.
It might be kinda cool to take a handheld like the PSP and try using phone-over-IP. Back in collage, I spent all of my money on 40s and pot, so I had to use a thing called Dial Pad to make phone calls to my moms to ask for more money. It worked really well, and I wonder if something like that would work on the DS or PSP. Back in the day Dial Pad cost $10 bucks for one month unlimited anywhere in the US. That left plenty of money for 40s, pot and strippers.