Well last time I read as far as your question about focusing on whether it would be good for peoples eyes if they focused on something close in, technically it's your fault!
The real advantage of course is that it'd make Arun a console convert and force him to spend his days on B3D examining Nintendo architectures out of respect for their new VR glasses.
Focal distance is a question of optics and comfort a question of weight and it's distribution.
If you can manage it with flat optics and keep the electronics at the side of the head neither is an issue IMO. Now the technology is bleeding edge, but it's not inherently expensive to produce if you get it production ready (holograms and microdisplays are both cheap). Nothing a console development budget can't handle.
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Let's say they announce a launch date this E3 to launch in the end of 2012. Im sure the other 2 will at least announce their next console before the wii will launch and will try to launch their consoles around the same time. By doing this there would be no reason to buy a NES 6 cause of it's graphical abilities.
It truly depends on what Nintendo announces as their big announcement whether they will be successful. We've had a dry run of this already with Nintendo announcing the 3DS early last year and Sony attempting to scramble an announcement to come just before the launch of the 3DS. Judging from the 3DS I would say that Nintendo would always need something outside of pure graphics capability regardless and it is quite likely that the other console makers probably couldn't quickly respond to most major new features pre-launch, just as Sony couldn't shoe-horn in 3D on the NGP. Improved graphics are a plus and not the be-all for any console anymore.
In general: Joker, I believe they did some Mario bundles last Christmas already if you were wondering.
Yes I know theres a general feeling of cynicism prevailing here as we've beaten around this bush so many times the poor thing has fallen over and died. However for your amusement I bought a well grown shrub from the local garden centre and planted a new one.
Overall with much of the games industry having given up on the Nintendo Wii they have the potential to gain access to a lot of core games on top of any new opportunities they may get with their new console, they do indeed have the most to potentially gain from a new console with a new architecture. The core market is something that they missed with the Wii and seemed to attempt to go after with the 3DS, so it follows that they will attempt the same with the NES 6. If anything losing the core market lost them the middle ground between multi-million sellers and abysmal sellers and the third parties suffered for it the most and made the Wii seem like a big hit or big miss affair.
They just need something powerful enough to best the current generation and with enough RAM and the right architecture to be compatible enough for 720p ports of the next generation. 2012 is a good time in one way, there are so many new architectures for ARM and X86 coming out that year and thats the year that 28nm becomes available from at least two foundries albeit with a different technique. The technology curve does support a new console coming out on bulk silicon in 2012.
