sheik124 said:
i hope no one flames me for this but nintendo was skyrocketing downward lately, and i kind of expected them to go belly-up two home consoles from now if they continue to do the dumbest fucking things, like "oh um, yeah we want our systems for games and games only" THAT ISN'T WHAT PEOPLE WANT!!! they want a sexy little gadget that'll do everything they want it to do, not "games and games only" now i expect their belly-uppyness to occur sometime within the next year or 2.
this is going to fail like Sega CD, Sega 32X, Nintendo Virtual Boy, and the Atari 5-something all put together
instead of doing a gay-ass thing like this, they should wake up and smell the daisies and make a super-charged hand held with OPTICAL MEDIA! *smacks Satoru Iwata with a 100 CD spindle*
now this thing could go well if in games that don't need two different displays, they can be placed flush side-by-side to make a pseudo-6" widescreen instead of 2 3" 4:3's for some really nice action adventure 3d gaming
Gee, you're quite the moron, aren't you?
As already said, NO, PEOPLE DON'T WANT A DO-EVERYTHING DEVICE. If they did, N-Gage would have more than ~2,000 sales worldwide.
Nintendo won't go belly-up, considering they have several billion in the bank. You really think that'll be exhausted any time soon?
Sega CD actually wasn't a failure. It had a pretty good run, and has some excellent games.
Optical media won't make anywhere near the difference in terms of games as you think it will. There were some bloody huge N64 games, all crammed into 32MB each. The biggest impact optical media would have on a handheld would be battery life. Spinning a disc and using random access on the laser takes a LOT of power... and don't compare it to a portable CD player - they keep the laser moving at a constant, slow rate on a conservative power setting. A game system needs to MOVE the laser, quite a bit in fact, and quite fast if you don't want lots of little pauses in loading. (the most amusing thing, though, is Nintendo hasn't yet revealed what media the system will use!)
And apparently the vertically-aligned screens will be more or less totally flush.
instead of trying new stuff, why doesn't nintendo work on an old concept, and improve it, like a BACKLIT GBA successor [sp is FRONTLIT] with the ds like 1 GBit RAM and media similar to UMD, except this would really be a Universal Media Disc, because the new home console would use the same media and the portable games could be played on the home system (but knowing nintendo they would never do this and would try and push another gbplayer) and they could have watered down versions or minigames play when a home disc is inserted into the portable console, eat that Mr. Iwata, they should make Miyamoto president
More retardedness. First off, SP being frontlit...
does it really matter? OMG, they're using a SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TECHNOLOGY that looks 90% as good and uses less than HALF THE BATTERY POWER! Or would you rather have to replace/recharge your batteries every 2-3 hours?
Second, Iwata-sama is an extremely capable man. You should probably look up what he's done in the past for the company.
It'd be nice if Yokoi-sama was still with Nintendo... he'd probably work some more magic.
He'd surely have been Yamauchi's successor instead of Iwata...
And anyway, Nintendo's deal has ALWAYS been 'trying new stuff'. Rather look to a company like Sony for the tried-and-tried-and-tried-some-more approach...
