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Up until now handhelds have sort of taken a back seat to home consoles. But only now are developers realising the true potential of portable consoles. Imagine the possbibilities... I think gamers are going to have to come to terms with the fact that consoles are dying. And developers can only come up with so many ideas before turning towards new things. Handhelds, I think, are the future of gaming.
Tread Carefully, i feel a fanboy argument between a ds person and a psp (which is better XD) person.........BE AFRAID!
About 10 years, I'd say.
> You say we will eventually reach a limit, but people said the earth
> was flat at one point...
Total irrelevance.
Dont know if you have been to America but
> there games arcades are a lot better than what we have here in the
> UK. They have 3D goggle games, you are actually on a platform and
> that is why it is only possible to have arcade machines of it but 3D
> is definatly the way forward i feel, although i feel this could be
> even past the PS4 era.
Of course there's better things now - but, in the future, there will be point when, graphically, games just can't get any better. There's no denying it.
And when it comes, the companies can no longer rely on more powerful machines to induce awe and provide their cash.
> I think the DS handheld will be limited to 128Mb, but the PSP will
> hold upto 1.6Gb. So those games for PSP like MGS will never make it
> onto DS without being transformed into some thing very basic. A bit
> like that XBox game that also launched for GBA (cant remember the
> name), it was turned into a 2d platform game.
Cause the GBA can't hold that sized games.
It can be up to 1GB, and they are cheap... you can use a GBA cart at the same time as well so it makes 256 MB max on top of that.
Also the DS cards are cheaper.
And will the next GBA use the same 128Mb memory as the DS? If it does, or is similar, it also will be very limited compared with PSP.
> I prefer playing on a big tv.
Linking up via an adapter to a TV would be easily possible....
And you unplug the device to take on the go...
Online a standard.
Eventually Handheld gaming would be as good as home systems, and these home systems will become obsolete.