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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
Why write all these ports for the N8X0 which, at best, will give you a half-arsed gaming experience?

Just wait two months and write ports for a true gaming system, the Pandora. You know, a system that actually has controls to play the games?
Why play games like Civilization which, at best, will give you a half-posteriored gaming experience?

Seriously, I think something like this should run well on the N8x0; the controls issue isn't one for a mouse-driven game like this.
Arcade games are much more demanding of controls, and you can well make that case for them, but discrete time and space strategy games, however boring and ******ed they may be, don't need a fancy-pants gaming box.

And then there's people with funding too limited to buy a second device just to boost gaming. I'll kill a few minutes with whatever games are available on the device I'm carrying around anyway, but they're just too small a part of my life to justify that kind of money.

Finally, it's not clear to me that porting games to the N8x0 is exclusive of porting them for Pandora. If they're not binary compatible, it should at least be simple to port things that have been gotten onto an N810 onto Pandora. Stuff like eliminating mouse dependence will already be done, so the effort's not wasted on the games that do fit readily.

Oh, and one question about Pandora: You know if it will have speakers? I didn't see anything about them on that wiki page...
 

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