Will this device ever look as slick as devices made by large corporations with high paid graphics designers, hardware engineers, and what have you? No.
That's not the point of the device. It's a niche device for those who want a hand held Linux gaming platform / Ultra Portable PC - choose your favorite acronym / emulator / open development platform.
A bunch of people who like to play with development and don't want to have to jump through the hoops the big guys throw at you are purchasing these devices too. It'll run Android if you want to code in that for your Pandora, go for it. (Though, to be fair, the Android running on it was an oldish version. It *shouldn't* be too difficult to get 2.1 or even 2.2 running on the Pandora.) If it sells 25k-50k units, that'll be a successful run for this device, so I don't expect many large AAA titles getting ported to this. But many of the titles in the humble indy bundle have been open sourced, and there's a good chance those will get ported.
And, yes, there are some very interesting games being designed for this. They may not all have the graphics fit and finish of higher production games, but they will have interesting game play.
Q3 does run on it. I'll have to do searches for it, but I've heard Descent runs on it - I think the source for that was opened up, lots of emulated platforms, including old PC titles will run on it, and it has proper gaming controls.
If that's not what you want, fair enough, but it has the guts of a modern smart phone, controls that beat what any current portable has with the dual analog pads, and an active - if small - development community.
That's not the point of the device. It's a niche device for those who want a hand held Linux gaming platform / Ultra Portable PC - choose your favorite acronym / emulator / open development platform.
A bunch of people who like to play with development and don't want to have to jump through the hoops the big guys throw at you are purchasing these devices too. It'll run Android if you want to code in that for your Pandora, go for it. (Though, to be fair, the Android running on it was an oldish version. It *shouldn't* be too difficult to get 2.1 or even 2.2 running on the Pandora.) If it sells 25k-50k units, that'll be a successful run for this device, so I don't expect many large AAA titles getting ported to this. But many of the titles in the humble indy bundle have been open sourced, and there's a good chance those will get ported.
And, yes, there are some very interesting games being designed for this. They may not all have the graphics fit and finish of higher production games, but they will have interesting game play.
Q3 does run on it. I'll have to do searches for it, but I've heard Descent runs on it - I think the source for that was opened up, lots of emulated platforms, including old PC titles will run on it, and it has proper gaming controls.
If that's not what you want, fair enough, but it has the guts of a modern smart phone, controls that beat what any current portable has with the dual analog pads, and an active - if small - development community.
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