Zeebo Destined to Fail in India, Says Blogger
Zeebo Destined to Fail in India, Says Blogger
March 31, 2009
The Zeebo, an online distribution console system designed as a low-cost gaming option for overseas markets, is a dead man walking when it comes to India, according to GamingIndians:
While the Zeebo claims to be competitively priced... [it is] not competitive, but it’s fairly expensive for what the console offers... Compare it to India’s largest selling and still very popular console, the PlayStation 2, which is priced at Rs 6,490 ($125), and it’s easy to see that the Zeebo won’t be making much of a dent in the Indian market, which is heavily influenced by prices.
[Another] advantage with PS2 games is that once you purchase a game, it’s yours for life, whereas on the Zeebo it’s only yours while it’s stored on your Zeebo’s 1GB flash memory. If you delete it to make room for something else, you’ll have to buy it again to get it back...
Digital distribution... just doesn’t work here. In India, buyers are most comfortable exchanging cash over a store counter. Online shopping has failed to pick up in India, and even the well-educated are wary of buying products and content over the big bad internet...
UPDATE: xbitlabs writes that Sony's just-announced PS2 price cut is to a certain extent a pre-emptive strike against Zeebo.
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Posted 11/21/09 at 08:16am
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ZippyDSMlee: Welcome and goodmorning its zippy in the AM....wat OMG its 8:50AM!!!!
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:42pm
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ZippyDSMlee: oh may the cute stab out your eyes, http://www.youtube.com/user/simonscat
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:17pm
JDKJ: O.K. Suit yourself. But when you're wearing Ray-Bans, sitting on a curb with a white cane and a cup of pencils, and doing Stevie Wonder impersonations, don't say I didn't warn you.
JDKJ: O.K. Suit yourself. But when you're wearing Ray-Bans, sitting on a curb with a white cane and a cup of pencils, and doing Stevie Wonder impersonations, don't say I didn't warn you.
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:10pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No thank you I don;t want your cooties...or STDs...
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No thank you I don;t want your cooties...or STDs...
Posted 11/20/09 at 05:01pm
JDKJ: Me. I'm rehearsing the role just in case I do get dubbed Zippy The Soecnda.
JDKJ: Me. I'm rehearsing the role just in case I do get dubbed Zippy The Soecnda.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:59pm
DarkSaber: Wait, is that meant to be Zippy, me or you?
DarkSaber: Wait, is that meant to be Zippy, me or you?
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:49pm
JDKJ: I cud caer lez. =^^= *wakes up in mid-afternoon after staying up until 3:00AM soldering resistors on to circuit boards, stumbles around in formerly white but now grey underwear, while simultaneously scratching groin with vigor and making coffee*
JDKJ: I cud caer lez. =^^= *wakes up in mid-afternoon after staying up until 3:00AM soldering resistors on to circuit boards, stumbles around in formerly white but now grey underwear, while simultaneously scratching groin with vigor and making coffee*
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:46pm
DarkSaber: knell? Don't you mean Neil? Anymore of tht and I'll dub thee Zippy The Soecnda
DarkSaber: knell? Don't you mean Neil? Anymore of tht and I'll dub thee Zippy The Soecnda
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:44pm
JDKJ: Now, now, Saber. Don't be salty. You weren't the first one to knell and bob and you ain't gonna be the last one, either.
JDKJ: Now, now, Saber. Don't be salty. You weren't the first one to knell and bob and you ain't gonna be the last one, either.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:42pm
DarkSaber: JD's feeling rather desperate it seems.
DarkSaber: JD's feeling rather desperate it seems.
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JDKJ: C'mon, Zip. You already touch yourself way too much. Spread the love. Before you go blind.
JDKJ: C'mon, Zip. You already touch yourself way too much. Spread the love. Before you go blind.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:27pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No and I ain't touching any part of you or your friends!! :P
ZippyDSMlee: JD:No and I ain't touching any part of you or your friends!! :P
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:25pm
JDKJ: @Zip: You know Lik Mitaint?
JDKJ: @Zip: You know Lik Mitaint?
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:18pm
ZippyDSMlee: neill and bob,oldest giveing head joke and most lamest...
ZippyDSMlee: neill and bob,oldest giveing head joke and most lamest...
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:18pm
JDKJ: But thanks for the memory. MIB's a classic. *sings* "Here come the Men in Black. Galaxy defenders. Here come the Men in Black. They won't let you remember."
JDKJ: But thanks for the memory. MIB's a classic. *sings* "Here come the Men in Black. Galaxy defenders. Here come the Men in Black. They won't let you remember."
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:18pm
ZippyDSMlee: JD:for the record I told you you can suck your own dck.
ZippyDSMlee: JD:for the record I told you you can suck your own dck.
Posted 11/20/09 at 04:07pm
JDKJ: Naw, man. That's Mueedeegiaap and Bob. And you can stop bobbing. I got Zippy bobbing now, too.
JDKJ: Naw, man. That's Mueedeegiaap and Bob. And you can stop bobbing. I got Zippy bobbing now, too.
Posted 11/20/09 at 03:56pm
DarkSaber: OH I get it now! It's Men In Black quote! The twins that run the comm centre in HQ.
DarkSaber: OH I get it now! It's Men In Black quote! The twins that run the comm centre in HQ.
Posted 11/20/09 at 03:49pm
JDKJ: I'd like to introduce you to them. First, Neil. Then, Bob.
JDKJ: I'd like to introduce you to them. First, Neil. Then, Bob.
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Comments
Understandable, the products they might be buying could actually be virus carriers set up by some fags in Anon. Time for some hacking! *his bracelet lights up*
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How exactly? There quite a big group of Zeebo hackers on 4chan or something?
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I LIKE the fence. I get 2 groups to laugh at then.
It's 4chan, I may be right, I may be wrong, even so, this is Anon we're talking about. For all we know, they might find out how to hack Zeebo. That's why I retrieved my bracelet, in case I need it.
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how coiuld they hack it when its not even out in brazil yet?
Edit: i said Brazil because that where the Zeebo is being released first (July 2009)
http://www.magicinkgaming.com/
Dude, remember who you're talking about. How could Anon NOT hack it? And before you say "it's not out yet" let me remind you that they can do almost anything. It's probably not that hard for them to get their hands on it before the rest of the world.
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Sure, it's possible, but there'd be no point. Just because some hacker does it doesn't even mean it was part of the collective.
Someone once told me this, and it's essentially true. Anonymous is like a Death Star Roulette. A game of Russian Roulette with an atom bomb as the bullet. They can attack anything at random, and what they choose to mess with is based on chance. There are hundreds of dead cat pictures on 4chan that everyone laughs at, but for some reason when Kenny Glenn got shown online to be a cat abuser, Anon fired the low orbit ion cannons on him and got him arrested. Sometimes they care, other times they're too busy looking at porn and lolcats to care.
I doubt they'd even KNOW about this stupid video game thing, let alone care...
-If an apple a day keeps the doctor away....what happens when a doctor eats an apple?-
I dunno, Anon is everywhere after all.
This is absolutely true. I've sold and traded games with people all over the world but I've never had anyone in India even express an interest.
Call me pessimistic, but I can see the Zeebo failing in for more places than just India.
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I LIKE the fence. I get 2 groups to laugh at then.
Heh. 1, 2 KO and the winner is..!!!
Maybe after another 5 years Sony will consider a 'pre-emptive strike' price drop for the PS3 after it's long overdue as well.
I misread this as Zelda.
I was about to RAGE for a while.
=========================================================================== Jack Thompson is vanquished!!!
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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