28th July 2004, 3:04 PM
Perhaps, but anyway here's my thoughts from this.
That comparison pic shows that this thing is curvy. It actually looks like a modern gaming system, as opposed to a cheap Turkish knockoff like the prototype :D.
With a compartment for the stylus pen, I hope they give room enough to keep my headphones in there.
Two speakers seems a little... silly. I know people complained about it, but really, my ears are further apart from each other than these speakers are from each other. That combined with the (admittedly small, but still significant) distance most people will hold it from basically means the time delay between hearing each speaker will be too small to really hear it in stereo. It's like they actually spent money on this design to just shut people up. I dunno, the headset has always sounded better anyway, plus I don't want to be bothering people around me when I play.
That start and select button placement is a tad awkward. They seems as hard to reach as the XBox controller's white and black buttons (on the original large version). Those were usually awkward to use. Problem is, now I can't be pressing the main action buttons while using select or start for something too, at least not without doing that trick where you put your index finger up there with the action buttons. I know this is the final design, but I kinda wish they placed those buttons in SOMEWHAT more accesible positions, like under the main action buttons. Oh well, I'll get used to it.
That comparison pic shows that this thing is curvy. It actually looks like a modern gaming system, as opposed to a cheap Turkish knockoff like the prototype :D.
With a compartment for the stylus pen, I hope they give room enough to keep my headphones in there.
Two speakers seems a little... silly. I know people complained about it, but really, my ears are further apart from each other than these speakers are from each other. That combined with the (admittedly small, but still significant) distance most people will hold it from basically means the time delay between hearing each speaker will be too small to really hear it in stereo. It's like they actually spent money on this design to just shut people up. I dunno, the headset has always sounded better anyway, plus I don't want to be bothering people around me when I play.
That start and select button placement is a tad awkward. They seems as hard to reach as the XBox controller's white and black buttons (on the original large version). Those were usually awkward to use. Problem is, now I can't be pressing the main action buttons while using select or start for something too, at least not without doing that trick where you put your index finger up there with the action buttons. I know this is the final design, but I kinda wish they placed those buttons in SOMEWHAT more accesible positions, like under the main action buttons. Oh well, I'll get used to it.
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