There's only so far you're ever going to get with a handheld, x number of buttons, controller. Better graphics, maybe better authoring, same games, same paradigms, slowly..wander...off into irrelevance.
I think this is spectacular. 3d interfaces have never happened yet, free-space interfaces have not happene,d and the only way I see them happening is this. See people getting their heads around the potential enough to start changing their paradigms, see kids picking this up the way they did SMS typing.
Every time nintendo does something like this, everyone exclaims that it's stupid because they don't get it. Here's a heads-up. Pretty much everything stupid, you *will* understand. be much warier of the other things.
I'm amazed that they still have it at the size they are now, but they have this consciousness that they are a toymaker. Deprecating them as being a bad or uncompettive computer maker just blows my mind. Who gives a shit about the MIPS in some commoditzed box you hammer out by the thousands to draw race cars and puppies? Making fun of that is like holding up some unusable korean DAP that you can't charge and sync at the same time as superior to the iPod because it gets more gigs to the $.
Folks, see the forest for the trees. It's very possible that you'll remember this post when you gesture vaguely to grab your voicemail ten years from now. Toys and porn advance digital technology. Hats off to someone for having enough balls to do something visionary and not kowtow to the tyranny of the nerds - per ?.s Douglas Adams quote today, a nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones. I'm out.
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There's only so far you're ever going to get with a handheld, x number of buttons, controller. Better graphics, maybe better authoring, same games, same paradigms, slowly..wander...off into irrelevance.
I think this is spectacular. 3d interfaces have never happened yet, free-space interfaces have not happene,d and the only way I see them happening is this. See people getting their heads around the potential enough to start changing their paradigms, see kids picking this up the way they did SMS typing.
Every time nintendo does something like this, everyone exclaims that it's stupid because they don't get it. Here's a heads-up. Pretty much everything stupid, you *will* understand. be much warier of the other things.
I'm amazed that they still have it at the size they are now, but they have this consciousness that they are a toymaker. Deprecating them as being a bad or uncompettive computer maker just blows my mind. Who gives a shit about the MIPS in some commoditzed box you hammer out by the thousands to draw race cars and puppies? Making fun of that is like holding up some unusable korean DAP that you can't charge and sync at the same time as superior to the iPod because it gets more gigs to the $.
Folks, see the forest for the trees. It's very possible that you'll remember this post when you gesture vaguely to grab your voicemail ten years from now. Toys and porn advance digital technology. Hats off to someone for having enough balls to do something visionary and not kowtow to the tyranny of the nerds - per ?.s Douglas Adams quote today, a nerd is someone who uses a telephone to talk to other people about telephones. I'm out.