Snail Games USA To Produce Gaming Smartphones and Console
Apparently software isn't enough for Snail Games, who announced plans at CES 2015 in Las Vegas to enter the hardware market with the introduction of a pair of gaming smartphones.
Setting a new record for product name brevity, the W -- yes, just "W" -- will implement dual joysticks and physical buttons in its design. Its partner, the W 3D, will also offer a 3D gaming experience on an 5.5" HD screen, without the need for special viewing equipment.
Both phones will come pre-loaded with 30 of Snail Games free-to-play titles. Though Snail Games USA is behind the product, which will be launched in North America, its Chinese parent company has a vast library to choose from, though it's hard to say if those titles will be westernized at all. Well, westernized as much as anything Snail Games makes. Mobile publisher Gameloft has also signed on to support the product.
Both devices are also fully functional Android-based smartphones, and Snail Games is also working on its own gaming console, the OBox:
"Also Android-based, the OBox uses an adapted operating system that provides users with access to a wide range of games and applications. The game console enables 3D video output on 3D compatible TVs, and supports PC game porting to provide greater and higher quality choices in available games. The OBox uses a dual-joystick controller for the feel familiar to console gamers, while integrating a new “air-mouse” control system for motion-sensor pointing and controls."
You can read the full press release announcing the W and the W 3D here.
Will you be tossing out your old iPhones and Samsung Galaxies, or trashing your Xboxes and PlayStations to get a W, W 3D, or OBox?
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By QuintLyn Bowers - 5 days ago
Then , it can be a thing. Obox? y not called it ouiya 2.0? Android based console. Huge nope.
battery power haunt every handheld , so if they answer it correctly.(why am i repeating my point?)
But they should look up to trending mobile games , the implementation of joystick buttons felt unnecessary . Why give huge touch screen if not optimize on that?
We dont need buttons , but bumper and trigger. Put the rest as screen not input. Why go backward? revolutionize what we currently had.
If folks want to play trashy Android games, they'll play on their phones they already have. If they're going to sit in front of a TV, they want something a little more engaging.
I mean, VVVEEERRRYYYYyyyy....well, cmon this joystick is a 100%
xboxone's joystick ripoff, with green lights and stuff.
Also..dafuq has snail games actually done that they think they can produce (successfully) gaming smartphones (lol) and consoles? Are these guys retarded or something?