of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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Yeah, Nintendo, this is what happens when you release one good game a year. Where are my fucking F-Zero and 1080 for Wii/DS?
Oh, and 3DS R&D costs? That's a good laugh. It's less powerful than the current PSP!
@nexekho so processing power is all that matters? No R&D whatsoever was needed to come up with a 3d console that does not require glasses. Interesting.
@etuoyo It's hardly advanced. It's a standard screen with a layer of thin printed barriers on top. It was developed by another company for phones, not by Nintendo. It only works when you look straight at it, not when you view the screen from different angles which is the POINT OF 3D.
@nexekho I thought being able to enjoy 3D at affordable cost, without silly glasses on that darken the screen and are uncomfortable would be more of a point of 3D than being able to look from any angle.
@nexekho
False. The 3DS is not less powerful than the PSP.
@d3sc3nd3ncy Perhaps you need to go look up the spec sheets. The screen resolution is lower. The constraints of the system throttle what few parts are halfway decent
@nexekho
If the screen resolution, the number of pixels the system has to fill each frame, is YOUR indication of a system's horsepower (and somehow overall worth?) then the 3DS is the system for you. It pushes out more than twice the number of pixels as the PSP.
Nintendo 3DS Screen Fidelity:
Top Screen - 192,000 Pixels
Bottom Screen - 76,800 Pixels
Total Pixels - 268,800
PSP Screen Fidelity
130,560 Pixels
By resolution/screen fidelity alone, the 3DS more than doubles the output of the PSP.
@nexekho
Not that screen resolution is any indication of how fun a game is though. I'd rather play great games at 320x240 than a lot of the drek that has been published in High Definition.
According to consumer buying habits, I'm not alone.
@JayVe I said look at the spec sheets. As in the actual sillicon behind that screen? What Nintendo's offering is a two-generation old mobile phone SOC. For probably over £130. Btw, you lose half the top screen's resolution because of the parallax technology. Enjoy. I used to be a Nintendo fanboy but a void of fun games for this their platforms over the last three years, poor reliability, bad graphics (graphics being a big part of the experience if you'd take your fanboy head out of the sand) and disappointing controller "innovations" left me cold completely. Sony lost their way a generation ago, Microsoft can seriously fuck off if they think they can charge me a monthly fee to run a server list and this generation Nintendo is dead to me. It's Ok, I'll just keep running new games on an old computer on full settings, using whatever controller I like (Wiimotes actually set up properly unlike the official games) over the internet for free and installing whatever modifications I like. Fuck the console race.