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When is someone going to release a powerful handheld console?
For years Nintendo have dominated the handheld market with the Gameboy and then the Gameboy Color, and attempts from the Neo Geo Pocket and the Sega Game Gear didn't succeed in knocking Nintendo off the top spot.
With the release of the Gameboy Advance next year, things will be improving but not much-although the graphics are better, it can only handle very basic 3D graphics and Mode 7 3D-creating the illusion of a moving 3-D floor by twisting and rotating a large 2D object. It is not a vast improvement.
What I would like to see is a handheld console that can handle 3D games, even if the graphics aren't superb. It might only be able to handle games like Doom, but that would be a vast improvement.
For years Nintendo have dominated the handheld market with the Gameboy and then the Gameboy Color, and attempts from the Neo Geo Pocket and the Sega Game Gear didn't succeed in knocking Nintendo off the top spot.
With the release of the Gameboy Advance next year, things will be improving but not much-although the graphics are better, it can only handle very basic 3D graphics and Mode 7 3D-creating the illusion of a moving 3-D floor by twisting and rotating a large 2D object. It is not a vast improvement.
What I would like to see is a handheld console that can handle 3D games, even if the graphics aren't superb. It might only be able to handle games like Doom, but that would be a vast improvement.
We all know handheld gaming was revolutionised by the Gameboy and now we are getting ever closer to the summer release date of the Gameboy Advance! What a machine, I can't believe we will see great titles like Mario Kart and F-Zero, I can't wait to get one but by the sound of things it could be more then the Gamecube!!! I hope the GBA is a hugh success and if this is the case we will see Gamecube sales fly, I mean Handheld and Console are two different things, at least they were until now! with this link up we could see amazing data transfer and extreme multi-player like never before and these two machines and the markets they represent may not be so different!!!
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Chris 23 wrote:
> It'll happen within the next 5 years-by 2005 there'll be a chip as
> big as your thumnail that can store as much as an N64
> Cartridge.
It'll happen...
Chips using silicon pathways cannot get infinitly smaller... to make complex chips smaller the route taken has often been to either make the pathway thinnner... which at a certain point will be too thin for a current to validaly pass along... or to move the paths closer together, which, if they get too close, the electric signal will jump from one path to the other, causing random output from the chip...
> It'll happen within the next 5 years-by 2005 there'll be a chip as
> big as your thumnail that can store as much as an N64
> Cartridge.
It'll happen...
Chips using silicon pathways cannot get infinitly smaller... to make complex chips smaller the route taken has often been to either make the pathway thinnner... which at a certain point will be too thin for a current to validaly pass along... or to move the paths closer together, which, if they get too close, the electric signal will jump from one path to the other, causing random output from the chip...
The Gameboy Advance doesn't need 3D games to make it good! The 2D games are very basic on the GBC however they are very popular!
If the Gameboy Advance used true 3D I reckon it would spoil the Gameboy altogether!
We don't want huge FMV's and excellent graphcs when we're on the move! We want gameplay, fast action and the ability to save our games to continue when we're next bored with the console games!
If the Gameboy Advance used true 3D I reckon it would spoil the Gameboy altogether!
We don't want huge FMV's and excellent graphcs when we're on the move! We want gameplay, fast action and the ability to save our games to continue when we're next bored with the console games!
This guy must have been dreaming of a Gameboy Advance!
While Nintendos working on the GBA, SNK are also working on a 32 bit handheld. The problem with trying to get 3D graphics on these is 2 fold. Firstly, the screen is so small that the detai needed for a truely 3D game would be lost. Secondly, 3D games take up alot of space, and it is almost impossible to put a large 3d world onto a small handheld cartridge.
Nice idea though...
Nice idea though...
When is someone going to release a powerful handheld console?
For years Nintendo have dominated the handheld market with the Gameboy and then the Gameboy Color, and attempts from the Neo Geo Pocket and the Sega Game Gear didn't succeed in knocking Nintendo off the top spot.
With the release of the Gameboy Advance next year, things will be improving but not much-although the graphics are better, it can only handle very basic 3D graphics and Mode 7 3D-creating the illusion of a moving 3-D floor by twisting and rotating a large 2D object. It is not a vast improvement.
What I would like to see is a handheld console that can handle 3D games, even if the graphics aren't superb. It might only be able to handle games like Doom, but that would be a vast improvement.
For years Nintendo have dominated the handheld market with the Gameboy and then the Gameboy Color, and attempts from the Neo Geo Pocket and the Sega Game Gear didn't succeed in knocking Nintendo off the top spot.
With the release of the Gameboy Advance next year, things will be improving but not much-although the graphics are better, it can only handle very basic 3D graphics and Mode 7 3D-creating the illusion of a moving 3-D floor by twisting and rotating a large 2D object. It is not a vast improvement.
What I would like to see is a handheld console that can handle 3D games, even if the graphics aren't superb. It might only be able to handle games like Doom, but that would be a vast improvement.