Rainbow Man
Veteran
I understand this is a technology-centric board, and that threads like these come with the territory, but I believe DS shows technology truly is not where it matters.
DS was most certainly a serendipitous moment for nintendo, even they did not know, or understand what they had invented. It seems from first impressions, they're about to repeat that with the Wii.
Technology seems only to matter if it somehow improves function, and not just appearance. High antialiasing and 32-bit rendering whatever, if people don't even understand what these things are, then how could they care the slightest about it?
It's not a matter of "if they just SEE IT, they'll know the difference!", because they won't see the difference. Most people are like that woman who bought a "playstation gameboy" for her son, and then sicced the cops on him because he opened his present early.
Technical-minded people laugh at product names getting mixed up, but if you can't be bothered with how many jiggabobs or gigaflux a product has, or if 12 jiggabobs is a lot or not or if 150 gigaflux is enough, then it's hard to keep track even of what company makes which product, and which is a company name and which is a brand name.
So from a strictly pragmatic point of view without any particular bias, a dream handheld should mirror the product which is more successful in the handheld space and try to improve upon it, and should not mirror a product which is less successful.
That's my take anyway.
Peace.
DS was most certainly a serendipitous moment for nintendo, even they did not know, or understand what they had invented. It seems from first impressions, they're about to repeat that with the Wii.
Technology seems only to matter if it somehow improves function, and not just appearance. High antialiasing and 32-bit rendering whatever, if people don't even understand what these things are, then how could they care the slightest about it?
It's not a matter of "if they just SEE IT, they'll know the difference!", because they won't see the difference. Most people are like that woman who bought a "playstation gameboy" for her son, and then sicced the cops on him because he opened his present early.
Technical-minded people laugh at product names getting mixed up, but if you can't be bothered with how many jiggabobs or gigaflux a product has, or if 12 jiggabobs is a lot or not or if 150 gigaflux is enough, then it's hard to keep track even of what company makes which product, and which is a company name and which is a brand name.
So from a strictly pragmatic point of view without any particular bias, a dream handheld should mirror the product which is more successful in the handheld space and try to improve upon it, and should not mirror a product which is less successful.
That's my take anyway.
Peace.
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