Gizmondo Desperation: Price Drop Via On-Screen Adverts

Jake! Jake! Look!

SPOnG's slagging off your favoured/employer's handheld.

C'mon Jake. Where's your considered and incisive prose on this matter?

This is some evil s**t. The world a f**king toilet and companies like this are pulling the f**king chain, watching us all float around with the turds before we're washed down the f**king drain.

Won't someone stop this endless barrage of marketing to kids? Let's face it, the best product doesn;t stand a chance when the cheapest (to produce) has the biggest marketing budget. Quality is now a quaint concept, now only affordable by the very rich...

*awaits sales figures*

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*awaits year of shuffling as whole concept sinks*

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Go TapWave!

Erm...

Edit: I just hope that a few executives manage to snatch a good chunk of investment money in the meantime. Really, that would be great!



How much change? More than a fiver?

I'm waiting on Spong's review of the lawn mowing game before I pick up my Gizmondo.

The average person sees 3,000 ads a day. And kids won't be buying Gizmondo's anyway. They all want PSPs.


And I'll get a Gizmondo provided Race gets a higher score than Mario Kart DS.

LOL, told you this was going down like a bad mix of drinks in your gut. It was only a matter of time before they crumbled. 100 quid today perhaps 50 within the end of the year.

Is anyone likely to care? Not really when you can have a PSP or DS.

this might as well have been the worst timing of all time.. sorry gizmondo...you could have had a bright future but not even microsoft will be able to bring you back from where they'll send you...

Gizmondo? Adverts?!

I didn't know EA were making games for it!!

;P

Although I won't be buying one - I think the headline is a bit unfair. I remember reading one of the Gizmondo brochures back in November 2004 and it clearly said that they would have a subsidised unit where adverts would be sent to the unit.

Well, this will probably shift a few more units. Quite reasonable advertising terms.

However, if I were a Gizmondo owner I would be getting very concerned regarding their millions being spent on promotion and sponsorship of events. I would have thought a "get an excellent product in the hand of players and it will sell" approach would be better than a "get the brand shown as much as possible" approach.

These millions could have been spent developing new games for the unit.

Says who. That stinks of "made up" to me.

I see about three adverts a day, so I feel sorry for the poor bastard who is evening the average out.

You'll be waiting a f**king long time, pal. We haven't even laid eyes on a Jizzmondo yet.

haha indeed with an ad time about 35" in order to watch all those 3000 ads you should be watching continuously for 72 days or 1750 hours lol.

I'll tell you what, I've been looking at Tiger's share price and it doesn't seem to have suffered as a result of Gizmondo at all:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=TGTL.PK&t=2y&l=on&z=m&q=l&c=

What's even more interesting is comparing to the financials of Infinium Labs:
http://www.phantom.net/investors/news_watch.asp
(Use the drop-down list to go to financials)

Rather dire. I'm surprised they're still operating.

"haha indeed with an ad time about 35" in order to watch all those 3000 ads you should be watching continuously for 72 days or 1750 hours lol."

firstly...

3000 ads at 35 seconds each = 1750 minutes or 29 hours...

Secondly - who says all ads are on tv? Even looking atthis web page I can see two. Walking to the bus stop in the morning I see two billboards, a few in the bus, and probably another 50 or so by the side of the road, on bus stops, other busses etc on the way to work. I probably visited 100 web pages this morning, averaging, what, three a page? The radio plays about 4 ads every 20 minutes (though not sure if we're counting repeats)

Not sure 3000 is such a ridiculous number...