Alibaba G20 Chinese Game Console with Motion Gamepad controller like wiimote

[froggyboy604]

Now Alibaba is introducing a set-top-box that brings videos, games, and other content to your TV.

The Alibaba G20 is powered by Aliyun OS and it’s designed to handle games, apps, and online video. There’s a heavy emphasis on gaming though, and the box ships with a wireless remote control which doubles as a game controller and air mouse… and which has an uncanny resemblance to Nintendo’s Wiimote.
 
The G20 isn’t quite as powerful as the Fire TV. Amazon’s box has 2GB of RAM and a Qualcomm Snapdragon quad-core CPU, while the G20 has a Rockchip RK3066 dual-core CPU and 1GB of RAM.It has 2 USB ports (1 host, and 1 OTG), HDMI and microSd card slots, Ethernet, and 802.11b/g/n WiFi. It has 8GB of built-in storage.
 
It will cost $100
 
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It's interesting that Alibaba can add so many features into the G20 while keeping the price at $100. This looks like a good console to emulate Wii games, and playing games similar to Wii games.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I wonder if Nintendo will finally sue China for a cheap knock off. Speaking of cheap, this console has to be made with cheap parts to come to that price.

 

[froggyboy604]

The console is China-only, so Nintendo probably won't sue unless Alibaba ships the console outside of China since suing a Chinese company like Alibaba in China's court would have a lower chance of winning, and Nintendo could end up paying the court fees, and being sued by Alibaba for damaging their reputation of their brand in China.  

The parts maybe cheap, but a dual-core CPU, 1GB of RAM, 2 USB ports, HDMI, microSd card slots, Ethernet, 802.11b/g/n WiFi. and 8GB of built-in storage which are on this console is a good value for $100. Judging by the picture, the console comes with 2 controllers which is rare for consoles in the $100 price range.

I think most consoles even the expensive ones are made with cheap parts to maximize their profits on each console sold.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I'm guessing it's a family console which explains why it has two controllers.

 

[froggyboy604]

Yes, I think it is a family/offline-multi-player console. I think China's internet is also kind of slow because of all the censorship, government spying, and the large amount of people online at once, so many people in China will most likely game offline with their friends, and family because of the slow internet.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I highly doubt China has slow internet, there wouldn't be so many kickass chinese gamers online kicking our butts.

 

[froggyboy604]

I read many Chinese game on desktops at a Internet Cafe which most likely has super fast internet connections because paying customers who pay to game at a internet cafe expect super fast internet connections in the 100 Mbps-1Gbps speed range.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

hmm, point taken but I'm sure they still get good speeds at home.

 

[froggyboy604]

I think the bigger city and villages get pretty fast speeds, and their smartphone and tablet wireless data plans are pretty fast.

But, I think the Internet Cafe connection may still be faster because Internet Cafe probably subscribe to faster internet, so their many gaming computers all have fast online gaming connections to keep gamers coming back.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

I wonder how a internet cafe is set up to allow such high speeds over so many computers. Must be a networking nightmare.

 

[froggyboy604]

Indeed, it must be a networking nightmare. Maybe they have multiple network, and internet connections.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

They would have to set up several to avoid any lags and networks collisions.

 

[froggyboy604]

They most likely use  Gigabit networking cables, and big powerful routers with a lot of wired networking ports, and the routers advance router operating system software like DD-WRT which uses Linux to run the router and add more features.