Panasonic 'Q' First Look

austinij writes "National Console Support has purchased and taken apart the Panasonic 'Q', a Nintendo Gamecube/DVD player device in one. Pictures and brief descriptions are included. Lets hope for a review soon! " That just looks so nifty. I've heard of DVD players including PS1 support in the not so distant future too. Apparently its fairly inexpensive to do it now.

DVD players with PS1 support...

[sailracer6]

Do you mean... the PS2?

Bah.

[wo1verin3]

If i woke up, walked to the kitchen, 10 bux says that I'd put the toast in the GameQube, and put the DVD in my toaster.

Yes, but can it compete with the XBOX?

[Al Gore]

I wonder how Q's DVD playing capabilities compare to XBox's. You all know that XBox's DVD player is generally considered to be excellent, right? It's on-par with the newest standalone players. The PS2, OTOH, suffers from many playback problems, the most problematic for myself being flickering subtitles. These problems are widely known. So if you're going to buy a console because you also want a DVD player, go for the XBox. Sure, it's more expensive, but it has the best graphics, the best sound (have you heard it in Dolby 5.1? Wow!), the best DVD player, the hottest titles, and the most successful console launch ever! (Trust me, there's a reason why the Microsoft sold more XBoxes in the US during the presale than Sega sold Dreamcasts worldwide during its entire production run.)

Anyway, I can't believe that anyone would buy a console from Panasonic. Sure, these days any company can claim to have more gaming credibility than Pokémon Corp, er, I mean Nintendo, but Panasonic? Wow. I'd buy a TG16 before I'd buy a Q.

Re:Nice machine...

[Gavitron_zero]

Unforunately, Panasonic has no plans to release this unit in the US. For now, it's a Japan area only device.

That's okay...Japan is North America's beta testing ground...

Re:Bah.

[msouth]

well, being a lot smarter than you, I would put bread in my GameQube...