12th June 2005, 7:17 PM
You could see it that way, or you could see it as cutting the top and bottom off the image. Since they upped the res in making the widescreen format though instead of lowering it to make wide screen the "other way" (the way the GBA does it), it basically means more power needs instead of less. And yeah, if it's designed from the ground up for it, all the difference in the world.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)