Hey, Palm, you know when
isn't a good time to brag about your rich, time-honored tradition of gaming software stretching back some ten-plus years? Right before the release of
webOS and the
Pre, a device you've straight-up told us isn't intended for games -- that's when. A lighthearted post on Palm's official blog today waxes poetic about the top
Palm OS game downloads on Handango and mentions a few favorite classics from around the blogosphere, but here's the thing: unless Palm wants to get serious about bringing entertainment to the Pre, this just rubs salt in our TurboGrafx-16 emulator-craving wounds. The TI-sourced OMAP3430 underneath the Pre's skin is
more than capable of knocking console-quality games out of the park, so we'll just have to twiddle our thumbs for a few months and see how this plays out; at the end of the day, it might simply be a question of
how open Palm ultimately wants to get with its SDK.
posted Jan 28th 2009 10:13PM
i really think you guys focus way to much on the gaming aspect as opposed to all the other items. Granted you have noted all the great possibilities the Pre includes and seem genuinely into it but there seems to be a lot of attention into gaming. Maybe its just me, but is mobile gaming that big a deal? For the phone to be released without capabilities for tapping to processor for hard core gaming is a lot less important than out of the box exchange sync, copy paste, multi tasking etc etc. No doubt palm will get there eventually with the games also.