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EVO keeps quietly showing up in the news for their EVO Smart Console, a Linux-based game console. It sounds cool, but there is one issue:
A game console needs games for anyone to buy it and game developers need people to buy the console for them to develop games for it. If you’re Sony or Nintendo, that’s not a problem, but if your an unknown, it certainly is. How, then, can an unknown game console creator survive? Use Linux and let people hack it.
While I can’t claim just letting people hack your device means instant success, Sony’s PS3 has already shown that letting people mess with a game console and repurpose it to other tasks is a very good selling point. After all, a small, quiet PC in your living room can do a lot more than games. Since it can do more than games, it is valuble even without games, allowing EVO to get their foot in the door and grab some games.
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My knowledge about Linux so limitless, all i know that Linux is open source, in my sort though, you can edit the program your self and make it better. Here i read interesting topic about game console that use Linux as base op.
Hmm… well i need to see my self that kind of gaming consoles ^_^
I would refer to the gp2x as a relatively successful open source console. Pandora may also become a good hand-held console. I would say Linux hand-helds have a strong following.