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“If the Gamecube isn’t a success at E3 I will close the entire project” said Hiroshi Yamauchi before last years E3 game show. The question some have been asking is why would Nintendo be so willing to scrap the Gamecube project? Surly this shows lack of commitment on behalf of the Big N? Well Mr. Yamauchi is well committed to the Gamecube but if it failed it wouldn’t bother him too much as he doesn’t see home consoles like the Gamecube, N64 or SNES as being the future of gaming, he see’s smaller systems, handhelds as the future of gaming? Some of you already disagree with this idea; some insist virtual reality is the future of gaming. But after some long thought about Hiroshi’s future plans I’ve discovered that the future of gaming may well be small.
How can the Gamecube surpass the PS2 and have specifications to rival the X-box considering its size? Because you can pack so much into smaller and smaller spaces as regards to technology these days, I’m betting the Gamecube could be even smaller if it wanted to. So one day 10 - 20 years into the future Handhelds will be super powerful. We all know home consoles can’t go on forever I can’t see it progressing much further than the PS3 as sooner or later we will just be wasting power. So one day Handhelds will be as powerful as the best 256 bit systems (and would also be back lit). But of course that isn’t the only factor when it comes to handhelds…
Small Screens and battery life will prove a difficulty but then you must see the other features of the handheld. What’s stopping the handheld being a home console? Why can’t we just plug a lead into the back of our Gameboy and into the back of our TV and play it on the big screen? This idea is already implemented where you can buy a controller with over 100 preset games, stick it into your TV and play away. Also like Home console we can still do what we do today and use plugs rather than batteries. Batteries though are still a problem with specifications on the such a scale and combined with back lighting battery life is sure to be small, yet like the GBA as technology progresses battery life will increase (GBA’s battery life is longer than a GBC’s!) So basically the Gameboy is a small home console, which you can quite easily take with you.
Another difficulty for a handheld is games, the size of the games will surly be effected by the Diddy carts? Well you can in fact get GBA cartridges that can fit the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time on it and Nintendo have often insisted Carts can be as big as you want them. But if discs are the way forward this isn’t impossible, I once upon a time hoped the GBA would use small Discs look at the size of the Gamecube ones! A small slot at the bottom of the system would enable you to insert a disc, which will get pushed out when you reject the disc. The problem with the use of discs is that it opens an entire area of memory cards, but really with the size of Panasonics new memory cards I wouldn’t see this as being much of a problem.
The final problem is with buttons, can Nintendo or Microsoft or any other company at that matter stick enough buttons on a Handheld and not make it seem cluttered. Well after careful thought I took the current GBA and fitted an R, L, Z (underneath), Start, A, B button on it, 2 analogue sticks and a D pad (and yes there is still a speaker). And it didn’t look cluttered in fact it looked quite good. So controller wise you will have no problem and multiplayer can still be used via link leads or infra red connection and with the mobile phone link we still have internet gaming possibilities, which we can also do through our TV.
So is the future small? Or will we stick our handhelds and home consoles in favor of new fangled Virtual Reality machines? I still believe immersion is the future of gaming and not virtual reality so the future could well be small. And at the moment Nintendo rule the handheld market with the GBA selling more systems than the PS2 so if the future is small could we see Nintendo as the market leaders once again?
Here’s to the future.
Dringo.
How can the Gamecube surpass the PS2 and have specifications to rival the X-box considering its size? Because you can pack so much into smaller and smaller spaces as regards to technology these days, I’m betting the Gamecube could be even smaller if it wanted to. So one day 10 - 20 years into the future Handhelds will be super powerful. We all know home consoles can’t go on forever I can’t see it progressing much further than the PS3 as sooner or later we will just be wasting power. So one day Handhelds will be as powerful as the best 256 bit systems (and would also be back lit). But of course that isn’t the only factor when it comes to handhelds…
Small Screens and battery life will prove a difficulty but then you must see the other features of the handheld. What’s stopping the handheld being a home console? Why can’t we just plug a lead into the back of our Gameboy and into the back of our TV and play it on the big screen? This idea is already implemented where you can buy a controller with over 100 preset games, stick it into your TV and play away. Also like Home console we can still do what we do today and use plugs rather than batteries. Batteries though are still a problem with specifications on the such a scale and combined with back lighting battery life is sure to be small, yet like the GBA as technology progresses battery life will increase (GBA’s battery life is longer than a GBC’s!) So basically the Gameboy is a small home console, which you can quite easily take with you.
Another difficulty for a handheld is games, the size of the games will surly be effected by the Diddy carts? Well you can in fact get GBA cartridges that can fit the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time on it and Nintendo have often insisted Carts can be as big as you want them. But if discs are the way forward this isn’t impossible, I once upon a time hoped the GBA would use small Discs look at the size of the Gamecube ones! A small slot at the bottom of the system would enable you to insert a disc, which will get pushed out when you reject the disc. The problem with the use of discs is that it opens an entire area of memory cards, but really with the size of Panasonics new memory cards I wouldn’t see this as being much of a problem.
The final problem is with buttons, can Nintendo or Microsoft or any other company at that matter stick enough buttons on a Handheld and not make it seem cluttered. Well after careful thought I took the current GBA and fitted an R, L, Z (underneath), Start, A, B button on it, 2 analogue sticks and a D pad (and yes there is still a speaker). And it didn’t look cluttered in fact it looked quite good. So controller wise you will have no problem and multiplayer can still be used via link leads or infra red connection and with the mobile phone link we still have internet gaming possibilities, which we can also do through our TV.
So is the future small? Or will we stick our handhelds and home consoles in favor of new fangled Virtual Reality machines? I still believe immersion is the future of gaming and not virtual reality so the future could well be small. And at the moment Nintendo rule the handheld market with the GBA selling more systems than the PS2 so if the future is small could we see Nintendo as the market leaders once again?
Here’s to the future.
Dringo.
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“If the Gamecube isn’t a success at E3 I will close the entire project” said Hiroshi Yamauchi before last years E3 game show. The question some have been asking is why would Nintendo be so willing to scrap the Gamecube project? Surly this shows lack of commitment on behalf of the Big N? Well Mr. Yamauchi is well committed to the Gamecube but if it failed it wouldn’t bother him too much as he doesn’t see home consoles like the Gamecube, N64 or SNES as being the future of gaming, he see’s smaller systems, handhelds as the future of gaming? Some of you already disagree with this idea; some insist virtual reality is the future of gaming. But after some long thought about Hiroshi’s future plans I’ve discovered that the future of gaming may well be small.
How can the Gamecube surpass the PS2 and have specifications to rival the X-box considering its size? Because you can pack so much into smaller and smaller spaces as regards to technology these days, I’m betting the Gamecube could be even smaller if it wanted to. So one day 10 - 20 years into the future Handhelds will be super powerful. We all know home consoles can’t go on forever I can’t see it progressing much further than the PS3 as sooner or later we will just be wasting power. So one day Handhelds will be as powerful as the best 256 bit systems (and would also be back lit). But of course that isn’t the only factor when it comes to handhelds…
Small Screens and battery life will prove a difficulty but then you must see the other features of the handheld. What’s stopping the handheld being a home console? Why can’t we just plug a lead into the back of our Gameboy and into the back of our TV and play it on the big screen? This idea is already implemented where you can buy a controller with over 100 preset games, stick it into your TV and play away. Also like Home console we can still do what we do today and use plugs rather than batteries. Batteries though are still a problem with specifications on the such a scale and combined with back lighting battery life is sure to be small, yet like the GBA as technology progresses battery life will increase (GBA’s battery life is longer than a GBC’s!) So basically the Gameboy is a small home console, which you can quite easily take with you.
Another difficulty for a handheld is games, the size of the games will surly be effected by the Diddy carts? Well you can in fact get GBA cartridges that can fit the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time on it and Nintendo have often insisted Carts can be as big as you want them. But if discs are the way forward this isn’t impossible, I once upon a time hoped the GBA would use small Discs look at the size of the Gamecube ones! A small slot at the bottom of the system would enable you to insert a disc, which will get pushed out when you reject the disc. The problem with the use of discs is that it opens an entire area of memory cards, but really with the size of Panasonics new memory cards I wouldn’t see this as being much of a problem.
The final problem is with buttons, can Nintendo or Microsoft or any other company at that matter stick enough buttons on a Handheld and not make it seem cluttered. Well after careful thought I took the current GBA and fitted an R, L, Z (underneath), Start, A, B button on it, 2 analogue sticks and a D pad (and yes there is still a speaker). And it didn’t look cluttered in fact it looked quite good. So controller wise you will have no problem and multiplayer can still be used via link leads or infra red connection and with the mobile phone link we still have internet gaming possibilities, which we can also do through our TV.
So is the future small? Or will we stick our handhelds and home consoles in favor of new fangled Virtual Reality machines? I still believe immersion is the future of gaming and not virtual reality so the future could well be small. And at the moment Nintendo rule the handheld market with the GBA selling more systems than the PS2 so if the future is small could we see Nintendo as the market leaders once again?
Here’s to the future.
Dringo.
How can the Gamecube surpass the PS2 and have specifications to rival the X-box considering its size? Because you can pack so much into smaller and smaller spaces as regards to technology these days, I’m betting the Gamecube could be even smaller if it wanted to. So one day 10 - 20 years into the future Handhelds will be super powerful. We all know home consoles can’t go on forever I can’t see it progressing much further than the PS3 as sooner or later we will just be wasting power. So one day Handhelds will be as powerful as the best 256 bit systems (and would also be back lit). But of course that isn’t the only factor when it comes to handhelds…
Small Screens and battery life will prove a difficulty but then you must see the other features of the handheld. What’s stopping the handheld being a home console? Why can’t we just plug a lead into the back of our Gameboy and into the back of our TV and play it on the big screen? This idea is already implemented where you can buy a controller with over 100 preset games, stick it into your TV and play away. Also like Home console we can still do what we do today and use plugs rather than batteries. Batteries though are still a problem with specifications on the such a scale and combined with back lighting battery life is sure to be small, yet like the GBA as technology progresses battery life will increase (GBA’s battery life is longer than a GBC’s!) So basically the Gameboy is a small home console, which you can quite easily take with you.
Another difficulty for a handheld is games, the size of the games will surly be effected by the Diddy carts? Well you can in fact get GBA cartridges that can fit the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time on it and Nintendo have often insisted Carts can be as big as you want them. But if discs are the way forward this isn’t impossible, I once upon a time hoped the GBA would use small Discs look at the size of the Gamecube ones! A small slot at the bottom of the system would enable you to insert a disc, which will get pushed out when you reject the disc. The problem with the use of discs is that it opens an entire area of memory cards, but really with the size of Panasonics new memory cards I wouldn’t see this as being much of a problem.
The final problem is with buttons, can Nintendo or Microsoft or any other company at that matter stick enough buttons on a Handheld and not make it seem cluttered. Well after careful thought I took the current GBA and fitted an R, L, Z (underneath), Start, A, B button on it, 2 analogue sticks and a D pad (and yes there is still a speaker). And it didn’t look cluttered in fact it looked quite good. So controller wise you will have no problem and multiplayer can still be used via link leads or infra red connection and with the mobile phone link we still have internet gaming possibilities, which we can also do through our TV.
So is the future small? Or will we stick our handhelds and home consoles in favor of new fangled Virtual Reality machines? I still believe immersion is the future of gaming and not virtual reality so the future could well be small. And at the moment Nintendo rule the handheld market with the GBA selling more systems than the PS2 so if the future is small could we see Nintendo as the market leaders once again?
Here’s to the future.
Dringo.
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