Sega doing PalmOS Games

Bill Kendrick writes "Sega has demonstrated a number of games for Palm OS handhelds during a keynote address at the PalmSource Japan conference. PDA Live has the scoop. The games they've made so far aren't going to be released commercially, but they're available for trial download through April."

Woo Hoo!

[angst7]

Finally a reason to buy a PDA. I'll need a suitable controller, but personal address books and calanders just never quite made these things interesting for me. Serious old school gaming will get me to CompUSA for one of these faster than all the financial apps in the world.

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Bah

[BiggestPOS]

In my opinion, Sega makes the best games, and now I can't just own a Sega made console to play all their great games, I have to own a Palm, Xbox, PS2, and random hand-held devices. My addiction is now a lot more expensive.

Big market?

[xerph]

I can't imagine this being extremely profitable for sega. Although a lot of the new devices are built more like gaming controllers (I know the buttons on the latest HP jornada is similar to an oldschool NES controller), how many people would buy retail games to install on a handheld device when there's so many better alternatives for gaming.

If the games are priced the same way as console games I can't see many people buying them, and if they are cheap enough to raise the quantity demanded significantly enough, sega probably won't make much money on them anyway.

Re:Woo Hoo!

[Gehenna_Gehenna]

A novel idea (not really), but what I want is PDA-type apps for my GameBoy Advance.

This has already begun.

[Tha_Zanthrax]

Sega's Swirl [segaswirl.com] game is already released for PalmOS

Awesome!

[tswinzig]

I particularly like Triangle Magic, which has turned my $400 Handspring Prism into a magical white screen.

Alas, no triangles have appeared yet after waiting 5 minutes.

:-(

Yeah, it's off subject...

[arloguthrie]

...but everyone's having fun with the Engrish translation, so I thought I'd share this one [kyocera.co.jp] for a Kyocera Video Phone. Scroll down to the first sample "Answering machines with images".

By the way, neither of these games seem to work on my Handspring Visor Prism. Just a blank white screen that sits there forever and requires a reset. Anyone else having the same problem?

Re:What I'm waiting for...

[akac]

If you get a Compaq iPaq 3800 series, it comes with a Sega emulator that includes Sonic, Baku Baku, and 4 in one.

Re:Damn.

[Anarchofascist]

I really don't want a big player to come in and start causing trouble for all us small-time developers.

This had better be sarcasm. I'm sorry but my sarcasm processor is ofline at the moment so I have to answer as if you were serious.

What? What are you babbling about? A big player is just what the hand-held software industry needs. All consumer benefit, that's for sure, with better games and more games. And for the developers we get higher expectations, more community support for this excellent OS, libraries we can all develop to, expansion of the industry, recognition of Palm OS as a gaming environment...

What is the downside you are worried about? Some big player will gazump your little development? Who knows, you may surprise yourself and bring out something better than the big boys. Remember that not everyone will have the half-meg of space the big commercial games will (probably) require.

My favourite game on PalmOS is Lines. 9K! Pure gameplay. Anyone can write it, takes almost no space, pure addiction in every byte and not Sega's style.

Sorry about the rant, but I can't see anything but good in this announcement, for players and developers.