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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Eel O'Brian on September 12, 2011, 12:53:34 PM

Title: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 12, 2011, 12:53:34 PM: http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/12/gamestop-launching-branded-android-gaming-tablet-next-year/

lol if this thing is priced more than an actual console
Title: Re: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 12, 2011, 12:55:25 PM: everyone's making android tablets, will personally wait for the Keebler FudgeTab
Title: Re: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: Brehvolution on September 12, 2011, 12:55:46 PM: Hopefully you can buy a used one for $5 cheaper. Not you eel, just in general.
Title: Re: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 12, 2011, 12:56:55 PM: hahaha would you like to trade in some games towards the purchase of this rebranded pandigital craptablet running android 1.6
Title: Re: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 12, 2011, 12:58:02 PM: honestly, it is not a bad idea if:

it is cheap

it can support more than one controller

it has hdmi out
Title: Re: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: Brehvolution on September 12, 2011, 01:00:03 PM: It's gamestop. This thing will be the cheapest of the cheap chinese plastic and a shit screen. For $250 plus monthly sub.
Title: Re: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: bork on September 12, 2011, 01:02:23 PM: Quote from: Zero Hero on September 12, 2011, 12:55:46 PM
Hopefully you can buy a used one for $5 cheaper. Not you eel, just in general.

:lol
Title: Re: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: bork on September 12, 2011, 01:02:47 PM: Quote from: Dr. Feelbad on September 12, 2011, 12:58:02 PM
honestly, it is not a bad idea if:

it is cheap

it can support more than one controller

it has hdmi out

Or just buy a console?
Title: Re: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 12, 2011, 01:05:37 PM: well, i do see some possibility, they could underwrite decent hardware with a contracted subscription for streaming and push them out the door for $99

big problem is streaming games still sucks
Title: Re: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: Raban on September 12, 2011, 01:59:38 PM: Quote from: Dr. Feelbad on September 12, 2011, 01:05:37 PM
well, i do see some possibility, they could underwrite decent hardware with a contracted subscription for streaming and push them out the door for $99

big problem is streaming games still sucks

This. I was mildly interested when I read the headline in my RSS, but it's streaming-only? Bummer.

EDIT: Oh, mobile apps and streaming.
Title: Re: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: Joe Molotov on September 12, 2011, 02:28:06 PM: I can only imagine the level of pestering and misinformation that Gamestop's retail monkeys will be pushing on people about this thing.

"Can it play PS3 games?"

"Sure!"

"Okay, I'll take one. Here's my 599 US Dollars."
Title: Re: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: Raban on September 12, 2011, 03:26:52 PM: :fbm
Title: Re: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: bork on September 12, 2011, 04:44:46 PM: Quote from: Green Man on September 12, 2011, 03:47:39 PM
If this really can stream PS3 games like that spawn box could, I'd be interested.

Of course it won't. It will be like OnLive and stream some shitty PC games no one cares about. And Modern Warfare. :P No way it sells for $99.

Yes way Gamestop monkeys try to push this on everyone who walks in.
Title: Re: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 12, 2011, 06:12:34 PM: they specified console game streaming, dunno what that means

and onlive, if the streaming worked well, would be a decent "secondary" gaming service - they have an okay selection of games and are getting the majority of the current ones, they tend to give away their microconsole for pre-orders of new releases, and you can use it on lower-powered devices like netbooks and tablets
Title: Re: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: bork on September 12, 2011, 06:32:01 PM: Why would Sony or Microsoft allow games to be played on a competing "console?" I would assume this is just going to be some dumbed-down interface used to stream some ready-to-play PC games. And a tablet that needs a controller to go with it? Sounds comfortable!

No way this shit takes off.
Title: Re: Gamestop Tablet With Controller, Streaming Console Games, 2012
Post by: Eel O'Brian on September 12, 2011, 06:45:11 PM: i'm not a fan of gamestop, but they aren't run by idiots, at least as far as the moneymen go

i would imagine they're, you know, already in the process of making deals with various companies instead of just building the thing and going "look at what we did! everybody c'mon and make some games for it!"

like, say, nintendo