26th January 2006, 12:41 PM
I've grown to love the "clicky" design of the SP and current DS buttons. I hope these are the same. I have to say the "Macy" look of this is very nice.
They moved the power button and made it smaller and perhaps lighter. They also seem to have added a brightness adjusting option (I suppose to save power?). Oh yes, they made the start and select buttons actually usable again. They were too awkward to reach before actually. This is better.
And yeah, it's just a computer rendering, but it's at least official. It may change in the future mind you. At any rate, lazy brings up a good point I've heard repeated many times. It is VERY hard to use both the stylus and the buttons on the system at once. So far, games are designed for "either or". Dawn of Sorrow, well, that game is just plain awkward. I have to suddenly readjust my hands completely, and fast, to use the admittedly pithy stylus functions of the game. However, it's hard to really come up with a solution. However, it may be that the solution may come in the form of just having it lighter. Surely it won't be all that hard to hold the thing with one hand any more, and then you have access to at least half of the buttons while using the stylus.
They moved the power button and made it smaller and perhaps lighter. They also seem to have added a brightness adjusting option (I suppose to save power?). Oh yes, they made the start and select buttons actually usable again. They were too awkward to reach before actually. This is better.
And yeah, it's just a computer rendering, but it's at least official. It may change in the future mind you. At any rate, lazy brings up a good point I've heard repeated many times. It is VERY hard to use both the stylus and the buttons on the system at once. So far, games are designed for "either or". Dawn of Sorrow, well, that game is just plain awkward. I have to suddenly readjust my hands completely, and fast, to use the admittedly pithy stylus functions of the game. However, it's hard to really come up with a solution. However, it may be that the solution may come in the form of just having it lighter. Surely it won't be all that hard to hold the thing with one hand any more, and then you have access to at least half of the buttons while using the stylus.
"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)