Least portable portable gaming device of the 21st century

[tenshi_a]

http://www.projectgaems.com/g155/

The G155 is a self-contained mobile gaming environment that lets you stay in the action when you're on the move. Just strap in your gaming console, store your accessories, select your favorite games, and you're good to go. The G155's integrated LED HD display, stereo speakers, and dual headphone jacks will immerse you in your favorite game--wherever you are. Just pop it open, plug it in, and play.

Just slot in your Xbox 360 or PS3 slim... no really!

It doesn't mention battery life....

[Vaikyuko]

Irony in that people like Ben Heck have done laptop versions of the contemporary consoles which are smaller than this and significantly better looking.

Ben's PS3 Laptop
Ben's Xbox 360 Laptop

Isn't it funny how a single guy can do better than a company at this sort of thing?

[ryushe]

Reminds me of Transfarring.

[Schadenfreude]

Originally Posted by Vaikyuko

Irony in that people like Ben Heck have done laptop versions of the contemporary consoles which are smaller than this and significantly better looking.

Ben's PS3 Laptop
Ben's Xbox 360 Laptop

Isn't it funny how a single guy can do better than a company at this sort of thing?

Cool and all, but you don't slot your existing console into those, lol. They're an entire console in a different case, and he charges $4000-$6000 to do the mod. Not to mention if a company started mass producing those, they'd get a C&D from Sony for making and selling Sony product without authorization.

[Vaikyuko]

Originally Posted by Schadenfreude

Cool and all, but you don't slot your existing console into those, lol. They're an entire console in a different case, and he charges $4000-$6000 to do the mod. Not to mention if a company started mass producing those, they'd get a C&D from Sony for making and selling Sony product without authorization.

I'm aware. I'm just saying it's amusing that this company is marketing something bigger and less visually appealing as portable.

[old hat]

It's more portable than carrying my TV and home threater around.

[Gray]

This isn't new. I remember years ago I had a screen that would attatch to the back of the PS2. It was cool when I was like, 13, but the novelty wore off fast when you realised it had almost no practical use. Anywhere that you could set the thing up (i.e having power and a large enough space to set it) likely already had a TV you could use. Hotel room, etc.

[tenshi_a]

I've got one of those PS2 screens too. I actually took it on holiday somewhere where I knew I had access to electrical sockets but no TV... then was disappointed because it showed PAL only and couldn't cope with a 60hz mode in games. But, ah, TVs were big and heavy in those days. It seemed to make sense.

This though... is really billed as a portable device. In the days of touchscreen mobiles and tablets being everywhere... it just seems silly.

Here's another good one. The "Nintendo Game Boy GBA SP Arcade Tabletop".

http://cgi.ebay.com/Nintendo-Game-Bo...item3a66cfa029

http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/06/nin...cade-tabletop/

It's a Gameboy SP plonked into a large piece of wood, with a full size arcade stick and 4 (four!) full size arcade buttons. Still with its dinky screen. Yours for only $399 US dollars.

This one doesn't seem so serious... but you never know...

[Schadenfreude]

Originally Posted by tenshi_a

This though... is really billed as a portable device. In the days of touchscreen mobiles and tablets being everywhere... it just seems silly.

None of those will run a PS3 game. As OH pointed out, this is still more portable than a TV and Home Theater system. The definition of portable hasn't changed in the past 100 years to my knowledge:
port·a·ble   
[pawr-tuh-buhl, pohr-]
–adjective
1.
capable of being transported or conveyed: a portable stage.
2.
easily carried or conveyed by hand: a portable typewriter.

Oh look, you can still transport it. It must be portable.

[tenshi_a]

Calm down, calm down, it's only a comedy thread.

Actually, now you mention it, I have seen someone plug a PS3 controller into an Asus Transformer and start playing... ok, they were only Android games, but still - it gives me the idea...

If you could get a mobile device to pick up a wireless controller, and have some sort of cloud gaming service, you could have all sorts of powerful games to play on a mobile device. As long as you had one of those super-high-bandwidth contracts. That would be coooool.

[googles]

http://www.knowyourmobile.com/mobile...ud_gaming.html

Oh wow. Not only has someone else had this idea, but it's nearly here! But PC games only, at a guess.

It's awesome when you think of something cool and then it turns out someone else is implementing it. You get the feeling of ownership but none of the slog of having to do it yourself.

[Schadenfreude]

With what Bell and Rogers charge up here for Data plans, it'd be more equitable to just build your own friggin house whenever you need to play a console game.