What do you think will Nintendo's next generation handheld's 'Special Feature'?
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waterproof to use during boring baths or beach holidays
Good graphics and resolution are subjective.
guess the GBA doesn't really have that "special feature".
None of this is going to happen.
Not really a leap, but still a noticeable change from the Color, besides that and the form factor, I
guess the GBA doesn't really have that "special feature".
None of this is going to happen.
Which most modern portable devices don't really have, but that said, I do hope the battery and the handheld is bigger from the get go.
I was thinking Augmented Reality glasses, but thought that was a bit much. Not saying it's out of the realm of Nintendo. They would have to design it to go over eyeglasses. Not to even mention VR.
Better resolution, better graphics, better screen quality and please, release the XL version at launch ! Bigger handhelds are way better than the small one
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The processor, graphics hardware, sound.
Basically, the GBC was a NES, and the GBA was a SNES.. in relative terms.
So a once good but now/then ageing processor popular in embedded systems, all wrapped around a fairly modest amount of memory and graphics hardware, stuff that has seen technically superior competition during its day, gave way to... a once good but now/then ageing processor popular in embedded systems, all wrapped around a fairly modest amount of memory and graphics hardware, stuff that has seen technically superior competition during its day*.
*for some this might also have signified the rise of the mobile phone. The amount of times I was linked up the various emulators that were made for various java and phones and asked why no GBA, only to have to point out it was a more advanced ARM running at several hundred MHz with substantially more memory (probably even more than the DS would later have).
The terms little NES, little SNES and broad comparisons, types of ports and the like mean that line of logic is far from unheard of.
I did actually have a look earlier to see if I could find earlier portables with shoulder buttons and came up short, I am content enough with it not exactly being a new concept in game controllers though.
They should replace cartridges with mini blu-ray disc and put fans where the speakers are to cool me while I play outside and for a neat 4D effect. Add a refillable water tank, scent air, and rumble while they are at it.
The 3DS is a major development over the DSi? In what regard? I could understand the DS-to-DSi since the DSi introduced DSiWare, embedded cameras and whatnot, but the 3DS's only "achievement" is the glasses-less 3D screen that people use for 15 minutes and then forget about. Other than the specs (which are a good couple of years behind the times), there isn't any jump to speak of unless you want to count the top screen aspect ratio.
Landscape screen, shoulder buttons, better form factor?
They're objective if you have means of comparison to other devices from the same time frame.
It was the first Nintendo handheld that could really interact with a Nintendo console, wasn't it? I know there was some pokeymans adapter for the N64, and of course Super Gameboy, but those connected the carts, not the system. With GBA you connected it directly and could interact with the Gamecube as a 2nd screen and stuff. Not used a lot, but probably a better notion for a "leap" than shoulder buttons.
That seems more like an innovation done with the GBA rather than an innovation of the GBA.
I already took shoulder buttons, similarly you and I share similar opinions on the pointlessness of "what was first" debates but I will have to *points at gamegear*.
Landscape screen, shoulder buttons, better form factor?
I already took shoulder buttons, similarly you and I share similar opinions on the pointlessness of "what was first" debates but I will have to *points at gamegear*.
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