JDTAY Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2017-06-28-wonder-raises-USD14-million-for-smartphone-console-hybrid Found this while googling Atari. Apparently Bushnell decided it was worth putting money behind, as did a certain Latina pop star. Plus we already know more about it than Ataribox. Consider my interest piqued. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDTAY Posted June 29, 2017 Author Share Posted June 29, 2017 A buddy on another forum found this article. https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/wonder-smartphone-startup-news/ Sounds like this device might do virtual reality, and more importantly, did I just see the name "Kevin Spacey"? Yeah, um, I'm a bit too easily impressed. >_> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roots.genoa Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 That wouldn't be the first time Shakira gets involved in video games. Remember her 2010 song about Pac-Man (and the World Cup). Sorry. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 There is also the mobile game "Love Rocks starring Shakira", which came to existance when Shakira and her husband Gerard Piqué went to a football game and met Peter Vesterbacka from Rovio (of Angry Birds fame). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Has Bushnell backed anything successful since Chuck E Cheese? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDTAY Posted June 29, 2017 Author Share Posted June 29, 2017 Has Bushnell backed anything successful since Chuck E Cheese? All that means is he's due. Dare you question the law of averages? >_> 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 That's the gambler's fallacy, no one is "due" anything. Each trial is independent of all the others that came before. Sad face. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDTAY Posted June 29, 2017 Author Share Posted June 29, 2017 Here's a fresh article about it, with more quotes from company head Andy Kleinman. http://www.businessinsider.com/wonder-smartphone-gamers-2017-6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eltigro Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 The chips don't lie. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted June 29, 2017 Share Posted June 29, 2017 Seems like an old idea, doesn't it? http://www.pcworld.com/article/2916899/windows-10-just-beat-ubuntu-to-the-smartphone-pc-convergence-punch.html And yet not ready for prime time. I wouldn't put any money into this. Also, the gathering around the television greatly resembles the Ouya team. Does anyone game on a television anymore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDTAY Posted June 29, 2017 Author Share Posted June 29, 2017 My buddy on another forum found this job listing that seems to confirm this will run Android, as if the smartphone part didn't give it away. https://www.wonder.com/careers/job?id=ZW5naW5lZXItZnJhbWV3b3Jrcy5lanM=&title=Android%20Frameworks%20&%20Application%20Engineer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrMaddog Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Ok, so this is going to be a "gaming" smartphone... So my questions are how will they handle A.) having physical buttons on the device and B.) reducing the lagging overhead of having Android running in the background. Go play any Sega Forever game to see how important this really is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDTAY Posted August 9, 2017 Author Share Posted August 9, 2017 Hey guys, good news; I just got accepted into the Wonder Alpha program. I can't tell you any more though, 'cause I'm pretty sure I would be punished or something. I mean, I'm not even sure I was supposed to tell you that much. >_> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted August 10, 2017 Share Posted August 10, 2017 Good luck with the testing, feedback or whatever you are supposed to do. In the current marketplace, they'll need all the qualified expertise they can get to become anything more than a parenthesis, no matter how many big names and video game veterans have invested in the project. That's just money after all, nothing that on its own sells devices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 More than a year later, did anything happen here? I see that the Wonder Alpha has an elegant, though not so verbose website and a few press quotes but I can't see or read anything else. http://www.wonder.com/ The last quote was when The Verge wrote about it in May 2018: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/16/17356904/wonder-gaming-android-smartphone-console-mobile-hybrid-pc-games-platform To be honest I couldn't care less, except that I would feel bad if all the 14 million USD invested by Bushnell, Shakira, Neymar and the others go to waste. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 @carlsson Thanks for linking back to this discussion, I forgot about it. This product seemed a lot more focused back then. Now that they've teamed up with Atari it seems more amorphous. I know this though: their dream of a mobile-console hybrid is a reality. Just hook your iPhone up to a big screen with a Lightning-HDMI cable and pair it with an Xbone or PS4 controller, and you're in for fun times. Quote “What we’re doing is not super hard. We’re not trying to create Magic Leap-style revolutionary tech nobody has ever seen,” Kleinman says confidently. “We’re just trying to put together a great experience, in the way Apple does it.” Of course, if it weren’t truly difficult to build such a system, another company — like Nintendo or Sony — would have pulled it off much earlier. Yet right now, the tantalizing dream of a true mobile-console hybrid remains out of reach, at least for now. Kleinman thinks Wonder can get there first, and in doing so, the startup just might beat the industry’s biggest players to the future of gaming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roots.genoa Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 I had also forgotten about that thread, and that I even contributed to it. A very relevant post as usual. -_- 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeatari1 Posted February 15, 2020 Share Posted February 15, 2020 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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