The Release of the IGame Family

Last Friday saw the launch of the brand new IGame Family, from Elonex, just in time for Christmas, writes Chris Mitchell.

Now, the first question on many people’s lips will be “Do I need yet another games console in my life?”. Well, according to Simon LeJeune, Head of Strategic Relationships at Elonex, the answer is most definitely Yes.

This small white circular console is ‘essentially a bolt on for either an Ipod Touch or IPhone’ he explains. It allows you to access all your music and video files via a built in dock and play content through your TV, but it also lets you play games, or existing Apps with a small lightweight Wii-like controller.

The IGame Family’s most attractive benefit for its £79 price tag is its ability to play 3d films, which are rapidly becoming more and more popular with the public and film companies alike. That aside they is not much evidence suggests that’s its early sales figures (10,00 units in the first few weeks) will continue to grow, or even be sustained.

So far a mere 20 games have been released for the console, all of which have to be pre-loaded onto a 1GB SD Card in order to be accessed. Although these games will only cost about £3 each.

So although the aim of this product is so today’s consumer can future-proof themselves against the rapid growing games market, it still remains to be seen if the IGame Family itself will be around after Christmas, let alone the future its looking to protect us from.