.::New Zune? Possibly Microsoft's PSP

Prototype wrote:
KKLEIN wrote:Ah, Zune...the product no sane person wants.

Exactly why the new one is dubbed "Microsoft's PSP", then.

i think the style of the zune is great

by the way did you know you actually get good headphones unlike the crap you get with an ipod.Anyway im a fan and if there is a better hd style version with xbla compatibility then ill be buying it, mine has games anyway i play bejeweled on it often

If it plays your XBLA games then I'd buy one, that is a great idea.

F-Heonix wrote:
Garth wrote:Zune HD has been rumoured for a while, hasn't it?

Yeah, I would definitely say that is a part of it which would be the first of it's kind on the market?

To make Zune a success they need to join with the Xbox brand and do a joined effort, Netflix & XBLA spring to mind

They could start on the road to success by actually releasing the damn thing outside of the US.

They should make it so that it can connect up to the 360 and allow it to download games, music, movies and applications from Live.

Not sure how Arcade games could work on the Zune, unless they all get patched to support a touch interface. Quite a few Arcade games make use of several butttons on the 360 controller, not to mention both sticks.

http://gizmodo.com/5251037/zomg-phone-rumor-update-internet-punked-by-an-apple-fanboy?skyline=true&s=x

Oh, yeah, those rumors about the Zune phone in June? We told you this guy was full of gooseberry fool. In related news, Mary Jo may be on to something. Updated

Jesus talked with our friend Dennis Liu—the guy behind Pretending to Work and Office the Movie. He confirmed that the Twitter account officethemovie is not connected with him or Microsoft:

"Officethemovie" was a rogue twitter. "Office2010movie" is the right Twitter page.

Skullfire wrote:Not sure how Arcade games could work on the Zune, unless they all get patched to support a touch interface. Quite a few Arcade games make use of several butttons on the 360 controller, not to mention both sticks.

I didn't mean Arcade games, I meant just its own games but available through the same market place.

Rik wrote:If it plays your XBLA games then I'd buy one, that is a great idea.

It would need to be about as powerful as an Xbox 360. XBLA games may not look quite as impressive as retail releases, but that doesn't mean they aren't using upwards of 70-80% of the power of the hardware.

Edit: Also, as mentioned above, lack of buttons.

At best there would be ports, and in the perfect world those ports would be free for people who already have the XBLA version.

degoose wrote:
KKLEIN wrote:Ah, Zune...the product no sane person wants.

do you own or have owned one, i do and its very good, ive had mine for a year now and its an 80gb version, kicks ipods arse in my opinion and the software isnt gooseberry fool like itunes.

They may well be good but almost everything MP3 player related is designed for iPod and nothing else.

Sarge

Zune HD (xYz) positioned to take on Apple, Sony, Nintendo and Google?

Sounding too good to be true, the cats at Teamxbox have posted a lengthy piece quoting multiple sources from Redmond and Santa Clara who anonymously spill the beans on what the Zune HD is and isn't. The "digital entertainment handheld," dubbed unanimously as product "xYz" by said sources to emphasize its purpose of bridging the Xbox and Zune platforms, is not a phone (that's Project Pink) but a converged "mashup" of devices like the Sony Mylo, PSP, and iPod touch. The emphasis of the device is not the hardware but the software, services, and entertainment experience if offers while remaingly primarily "a portable game console and media player." It's said to link into Microsoft's Skybox computing services for mobiles and blur the lines between Xbox Live and the Zune and Sky Marketplaces. Even the Xbox 360's NXE interface will be making its way onto the new Microsoft handheld. As Teamxbox summarizes:

Buy a song, a movie or a TV show on your Xbox, play the content later on the handheld or the other way around. Play an Xbox Live Arcade game either on your Xbox or in this handheld.

At the moment, we have no way to authenticate any of this beyond what we've brought to the table already. Honestly, having had our hopes crushed by a tepid reaction to market trends from Microsoft in the past makes it difficult to believe all these seemingly fanboi fantasy claims of specs and convergence. However, if true, if Microsoft finally breaks free from the rigid silos of its own making and delivers an integrated living room, gaming, and portable media experience along with a stable Windows 7 computing environment... well, wait this just can't be happening.

http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/zune ... nd-google/

Carlos wrote:The rumoured Zune HD which features a larger touchscreen (bye bye, Squircle), Mini-HDMI out and 720p video playback. Hopefully it will match up to the ipod touch in terms of gaming, only with XBLA compatibility.

Wait, so you're saying that the handheld could play 720p movies? Or do you mean you could hook it up to a TV and then it could stream the movie to the TV?

I would hope so, having 720p playing on a screen that size seems like a waste of effort since you are going to notice f all.

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