Oppo's gaming-friendly media player

Oppo's Muse G11 is just a media player, and the machine-translated text of its announcement offers scant details on specs, release dates or any useful info at all.

The simple gaming-friendly design, though, looks great. A simple, hackable, no-nonsense retrogaming pocketable for cheaper than the DS? Nothing will dethrone Nintendo's monster, but such a thing could carve its own little niche: especially if it's extremely small 'n' thin. Alas, even dimensions are vague at this point; it's not even clear if that's a real photo, or just a mockup.

A bigger question, perhaps, is found in the fact that "games" as a peripheral feature of media players is becoming more common in Asian-market products, often with NES emulation baked in. How long until the value-add becomes common in the U.S.? Does anything restrict it except the availability of legal games?

OPPO smart g11 Muse introduced [PMP Today via Ubergizmo]

[#1 posted by redthoughts , September 26, 2008 7:07 PM]

Oppo makes fantastic products. They don't look like much but are very robust and work great. I have one of their DVD players that is absolutely fantastic. The image quality and features is amazing. I hope this product survives and is just as fabulous.

[#2 posted by Garr , September 27, 2008 2:52 AM]

They're gonna get some trouble from SCEI if this is the "real" design.