Will Gizmondo imitate N-Gage?

Matthew Maier wrote interesting piece in Business 2.0, called Gizmondo: Loaded With Features, but Hopelessly Doomed. He compares the launch of Gizmondo to the launch of N-Gage, because it will probably end miserably. According to Matthew, Gizmondo is all you can ask for and it doesn’t have any major design flaws like N-Gage had when it was first launched.

Similarities come when he looks to the market place, lot of competition at nice price and Gizmondo’s price climbs on a plateau of its own. Biggest obstacle is the fact that Nintendo and Sony eat up all the reserves of game developers, hence, no flood of games for Gizmondo. Also other portable devices do better job in their niches, everybody seems to have a MP3 player, why use Gizmondo to play music? It also goes with other areas of potential uses – address book, calendar, email, games and messages... It will be a long wait for Mr. G and they don’t have deep pockets like Nokia does.