Jungle (console)

The Jungle was a portable game console in development by Panasonic, and announced in October 2010. With a design being roughly similar to a small laptop, it was developed as a portable platform for MMOs and aimed at players who wanted to play online games on the go. The Jungle was also Panasonic's first attempt at creating a handheld console.[1][2] It was expected to be released in mid-2011, effectively putting it into the eighth generation of gaming along with the Nintendo 3DS and the then-unreleased PlayStation Vita.

Jungle
ManufacturerPanasonic
TypeHandheld game console
LifespanCancelled (was expected to be released in mid-2011)
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Panasonic M2

The system was to be the second dedicated video game console released by Panasonic, after the 3DO from 1993. In 1997, Panasonic was developing a new console called the Panasonic M2, but the company cancelled the project.

On March 1, 2011, Panasonic announced the cancellation of the Jungle, "due to changes in the market".[3]

Games

Three games were announced for the release of the Jungle in October 2010:[4]

Features

These were announced features for the Jungle:

gollark: Maybe emulated serial or whatever.
gollark: Even if you specify that the modem should be a, well, modem and not a keyboard in Linux, there's still probably a really small attack vector in mucking with the bootloader via keyboard when it's still booting up.Assuming you actually can interact by keyboard.
gollark: My Kindle's one is really nice, though I think Amazon sells Kindles at a loss, and much of it may just be drivers.
gollark: Big ones seem annoyingly expensive though.
gollark: You can get a few small e-papery displays for Raspberry Pis and whatnot.

References
  1. "Panasonic's Jungle portable gaming system emerges, gets shown off on video (update: makes appearance on Rob Dyrdek's MTV show)". Engadget. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
  2. "News - Panasonic Reveals Handheld System: Jungle". Gamasutra. Retrieved 2010-10-05.
  3. "Panasonic says has dropped game development project". Reuters. 2011-02-25. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
  4. "Stellar Dawn comes to the Jungle". Panasonicjungle.org. 2010-10-25. Archived from the original on 2011-01-03. Retrieved 2011-03-01.
  5. "Exclusive: First Photo of Jungle, Panasonic's Portable Online Gaming System". Gizmodo.com. Retrieved 2010-10-06.
  6. Dean Takahashi (October 4, 2010). "Panasonic to debut mobile game handheld called the Jungle". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2010-10-06.
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