God. Stop me if you've heard this or something like this before: The new Zune will play games. The new Zune will have an iTunes-like App store. The new Zune can teleport people and increase your penis size. If I had a nickel for every time I heard something about the new Zune, well, I would have enough to buy stock in the new Zune.
It's coming, and from everything we've been hearing, E3 is the big debut. People are starting to talk about it a lot, and it looks like TeamXbox is going through something that we've gone through from time to time. Like us, they broke a story a long time ago on the internets. Months later, when it's more relevant, people start talking about it like it is new news.
Get this: TeamXbox had plenty of hot info on this new Microsoft gaming and multimedia wonder in January, says Joystiq. They all sound like recent rumors on system stats and services coming up lately. This sort of PSP/iPhone mashup allegedly would be able to grab your Xbox Live content, let you access the marketplace, hop on the Zune store, and even play Live Arcade games. Allegedly.
I'll be glad when this is all finalized and done. Or when I get my nickels.
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I KNEW IT.
I KNEW IT.
I KNEW IT.
I KNEW IT.
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I KNEW IT!
Not interested in portable gaming devices, Microsoft? Way to go filthy hypocrite, haha.
it's a fucking RUMOR, calm down spaz.
it was still predictable as fuck, I mean the PSP, the iPhone, the DSi and they keep saying they are not intereested in protable gaming? I called bullshit since the beginning. Things are beginning to take form even if its a damn rumor
Congrats? You called that they would make a portable gaming thing, your life is fucking complete now, good job.
So whatever.
Loved it.
Zune has always been MS big failure, so its natural MS would want to correct that. Turning that tech towards a games/media player, and pluggin those holes Apple haven't filled can only be to their credit.
XBLA games in my pocket, and the possibily of XNA games too. I'd certainly buy one.
uhh last time I checked it was on a CD, but I could be wrong
"According to one source, Microsoft will address several competitors with this handheld: Apple, Sony, Nintendo…and Google? “Yes, Google,” the source said. Is the device really that far-reaching that it can serve as a competitor to Google? This Microsoft mobile device will supposedly offer many Live Search services, such as Maps, News, Traffic and Video, and in this way, Microsoft would be counter-attacking the Google phones without competing with its Windows Mobile customers that manufacture mobile phones."
applications though, that's a different story. if the zune integrates apps the way the iphone has, then it'll definitely be the better media machine. I already thought that the zune 2.0 (the 80gb version) was better than the ipod 80gb and 160gb models - but not quite as good as the iphone/itouch because of the app and touch functionality. I'm foreseeing microsoft making quite a dent in apple's stranglehold on the handheld media market with this incarnation of the zune, if they do it right.
@FinnE
When I play Pac-Man, Tetris or Galaga on my phone I feel like I'm gaming...