Zeebo Destined to Fail in India, Says Blogger

Zeebo is a MAJOR failure... Already...

First, the company that manufactures it, TecToy, that company currently not only suck, but also annoy its consumers and use some laws as crutch...

To explain: Back when they made MegaDrive and it was still new (they still make megadrives, but obviously it is not new...), they lobbied and had success about a law to protect local console manufacturers (altough they are the only one...), the result is that to import any console or console game you must pay a tax of about 273%, altough that is ridiculous already, the tax is sufficient to bump-up the price of consoles to make MegaDrive remain competitive with its 130 USD price (yes, a megadrive costs 130 USD)

Now where they annoy their own costumers: They make only old sega consoles but dreamcast and saturn (the ones that people keep begging them to manufacture, because they still rock... I want one! I wanna play Radiant Silvergun!!!), and not only that, they removed the cartridge slot and they do not manufacture games anymore, you buy a console with 180 games in memory, while most of them suck, and where the most awesome games are left out (like Sonic 3)

Now on Zeebo itself:

Like on India, here Zeebo is priced the same as a brand new PS2 (even with the 273% tax...), not only that, but sony is building a PS2 factory here in brazil, this mean that they will be able to actually sell it for 99 USD like they do in the US, instead of the current price here (About 250 USD).

Also, people here too dislike digital distribution...

Not only that, the infrastrucutre here SUCK, it REALLY SUCK, 3G network (that Zeebo uses) was implemented here only 1 year ago, it is highly unstable and work only in some selected areas, trying to sell something that depends on it is like trying to sell boats in the desert.

I wonder who invented Zeebo idea, sell shitty games (yes, they are cellphone ports, who want to play a cellphone game on TV?) for a high price (seriously, 15 USD for QUAKE I???? ARE YOU NUTS??? 15 USD FOR A FIFA CELLPHONE GAME????) force you to pay it AGAIN in case you run out of space, and the best of all: The most hilarious marketing ever, where you launch a site that beg you to buy a product that is not even launched, using a really overhyped and funny description (seriously, it is written on the website that Zeebo has the game with the most awesome graphics ever made... O RLY?)

I think that Qualcomm jumped on the boat only because they will profit as the initial developers pay them for BREW and autorization to develop for Zeebo, they do not need to actually sell consoles, or even they can sell a proper cellphone using that technology, since Zeebo is a cellphone in a oversized box...

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