"Last night, Panasonic unveiled the Jungle, a new, clam-shaped "mobile device concept designed specifically for online gamers," according to the company. Tech blog Gizmodo reports the device resembles a small laptop, with a full QWERTY keyboard and touch pad in addition to more standard gaming controls such as a D pad and shoulder buttons. Given the Jungle's focus on online gaming, Wi-Fi is a given and some sort of 3G mobile support likely." Read More
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/10/welcome-to-the-jungle-its-going-to-flop-real-hard.ars If its going to run linux what the hell are you going to be able to play on it?
but the real question is if it comes with its own windows emulator, or if it'll require modding to do so. If the former, great. If the latter, wouldn't slow me down but it would hurt the not quite so techie crowd ;p
From that article: "So far there has been little but speculation. It could be running Linux, it could do TV-out, and it could play existing games." We will have to see if that actually pans out.
Asking a handheld to run games through Wine kind of sounds like shooting yourself in the foot to me...
i think it will flop! i dont see the point of this considering all the advantages you can get with a gaming laptop.
The more I look into this thing... the more I think it's going to be a failure. However there is very little info about it. I was expecting a mini-pc type thing with 3gb of memory and a decent gpu. That would be able to play most games on low settings. That's not what it looks like though. It seems they are trying to make a new gaming platform which... there's already to many. In an ideal world platforms would set aside their differences and work together to merge all of their strengths. Sadly, that'll never happen.
