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Games => General Gaming => Topic started by: idolminds on Monday, October 04, 2010, 06:14:39 PM

Title: The Panasonic Jungle
Post by: idolminds on Monday, October 04, 2010, 06:14:39 PM
What the...? (http://welcometo.thejungle.com/)

Some show on MTV is supposed to show it tonight, so we'll get more info after that. Some sort of handheld online gaming device? Clam shell like a DS, dpad, buttons, keyboard, Linux based...sounds like the Pandora.

Will be interesting to see what it really is.

(http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Open1.jpg)

Kinda ugly.
Title: Re: The Panasonic Jungle
Post by: Ghandi on Monday, October 04, 2010, 06:19:09 PM
The Jungle? Really?
Title: Re: The Panasonic Jungle
Post by: idolminds on Monday, October 04, 2010, 06:22:46 PM
You know, if it supports homebrew or quickly gets hacked for it...I might get one. Would be nice to have an open handheld.
Title: Re: The Panasonic Jungle
Post by: Ghandi on Monday, October 04, 2010, 07:01:09 PM
I was mostly talking about the name. Most dudes would prefer not to play with a jungle....
Title: Re: The Panasonic Jungle
Post by: iPPi on Monday, October 04, 2010, 07:51:17 PM
Supposedly, the screen is supposed to be really good.  It's also meant to play allow people to play online, as a true online handheld gaming device, so it might have 3G in it.  I do wonder if 3G speeds will be able to handle gaming online though...

Title: Re: The Panasonic Jungle
Post by: Pugnate on Monday, October 04, 2010, 10:11:52 PM
A handheld aimed at PC gamers?

Aww yea.

It looks really really ugly though, I agree.

Apparently aimed at MMO fans:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/04/panasonics-jungle-portable-gaming-system-emerges-gets-shown-of/

edit:

Wow, the promo video on the engadget link looks terrible.
Title: Re: The Panasonic Jungle
Post by: sirean_syan on Monday, October 04, 2010, 11:04:07 PM
I don't know about the handheld, but fuck them for making a potentially cool looking Battlestar space-sim as an MMO (if it looks anything like that footage).
Title: Re: The Panasonic Jungle
Post by: Pugnate on Tuesday, October 05, 2010, 03:46:13 AM
Yea I haven't seen the footage but it does sound like battlestar and mmos were made for each other.