With the strength of their titles, this will be difficult to do. The Gizmondo is unique, but so was the N-Gage. The most interesting piece of the Gizmondo is the GPS, and cellphone bring this (and other location technologies) to portable gaming. For the mobile-consoles, the DS or PSP could easily release GPS add-on.

Take a look at the link on my name for some other ideas for location based games. I regularly visit the site it is posted on, and the article contains some good info on LBG.

My point is there’s more than one way to skin a cat, not that advertising is good.

Just because I can’t not read words put in front of me doesn’t mean I can’t develop a coping mechanism for ads. But your approach is the soundest — just say no.

The other point that we may be overlooking here is that maybe inobstrusive ads can be created, more like TV commercials than magazine print ads, and maybe they sell book clubs or movies made from books or some other related material. And maybe, like Gizmondo’s, they never interrupt you. There’s a wide spectrum here, and maybe there’s a spot in it that even you can abide.

Advertising is not the be-all and end-all of existence. Crazy as it may sound, some people might like to not have crap pitched at them every five minutes of their life from birth to death.

Sure, right now you get the choice of paying more to avoid the commercials on that device. That was the initial draw for cable TV too, remember? Pay more and get no commercials? Seems to have disappeared. Even on premium channels, you get commercials between movies.

No commercials in books, please. If all e-books come with commercials, then I’ll stop reading ebooks.