February 16th, 2009 by Arjan Olsder Posted in Gaming Gear | No Comments »
Over at the Mobile World Congress, Zeemote is promoting what they call the next significant step in Mobile-Console Gaming, or MCG. This means combining a TV-out based phone and one or two Zeemotes for a home console experience.
The Mobile-Console Gaming platform leverages the mobile handset to provide game distribution, high quality graphics and sound, multi-player connectivity and portability. The Zeemote JS1 Controller, equipped with a thumbstick and four assignable action buttons, plays an integral part of the MCG ecosystem by enabling a mobile user to unleash their game anytime, anywhere and on any size screen to experience home-console style gaming up to 10 meters away from the handset connected to the TV or when projecting from a micro-projector equipped handset.
This new category of affordable TV-Out or micro-projector enabled mobile handsets will provide an ideal platform, for:
- Emerging market consumers to embrace mobile console gaming
- Developers to produce better ‘premium’ single and multiplayer connected games and to create an uplift in pricing of mobile games closer to that of traditional console charging
- Operators to realize new revenue streams through streamed and downloaded games/applications
- Handset Manufacturers to position the handset as a connected gaming device with data server capabilities, enhanced storage and DRM
Visitors to Zeemote’s stand: Innovations Zone 25 in Hall 7 at Mobile World Congress will see a demonstration of single and multiplayer head-to-head gaming with Zeemote JS1 Controllers paired to a Nokia N85.
“It has always been our belief that the mobile handset will become ever more powerful and ubiquitous as a connected gaming device. The Zeemote JS1 Controller plays an integral part of the Mobile-Console Gaming ecosystem enabling anytime, anywhere gaming and now any screen when marrying the Zeemote JS1 to high quality mobile gaming content and a handset equipped with TV Out or a micro-projector.” Said Ernie Cormier, President and CEO, Zeemote.
