I came across this today.
The story: Back in 2005 Shanda, a Chinese electronics firm decided the time was right for china to enter the videogame market in a serious and legitimate way. It was announced that they were going to challenge Nintendo and Sony, and develop a home console and a handheld.
They apparently test marketed the home console, the EZ Station ($800 retail?), and claimed to have had a very positive response. Then with much fanfare Shanda's handheld, known as the EZ Mini, was shown at a electronics expo in late 2005. And then.....nothing. Well almost nothing. Records seem to indicate that Shanda was forced to pull the plug on their entire video game venture due to a conflict of interest with one of their corporate partners.
Here is some pics of the hand held Console -
Now the interesting part, while the hand held console comes with a few built in game's like space invaders etc but one of the game developed for the console was.. you guessed it Legend of Mir
The story: Back in 2005 Shanda, a Chinese electronics firm decided the time was right for china to enter the videogame market in a serious and legitimate way. It was announced that they were going to challenge Nintendo and Sony, and develop a home console and a handheld.
They apparently test marketed the home console, the EZ Station ($800 retail?), and claimed to have had a very positive response. Then with much fanfare Shanda's handheld, known as the EZ Mini, was shown at a electronics expo in late 2005. And then.....nothing. Well almost nothing. Records seem to indicate that Shanda was forced to pull the plug on their entire video game venture due to a conflict of interest with one of their corporate partners.
Here is some pics of the hand held Console -
Now the interesting part, while the hand held console comes with a few built in game's like space invaders etc but one of the game developed for the console was.. you guessed it Legend of Mir
