23rd February 2010, 6:14 AM
An add-on would be easy, lock it on and developers can now make HD games. Whoopy. But Nintendo wants to really compete and offer something radically new just like the Wii originally did. Something that will again make all the console manufacturers cock their head like a confused dog and claim shenanigans.
DS2 is real, I cant talk about it beyond that. But i'm unsure if my theory still holds that it will be the all-in-one device in respect to it being the home console and the portable in one. One prototype has one screen similar to the PSP, but all the R&D is leaning towards the dual screen interface, there's even talk of a third screen that you see when it's closed.
My look at the market says 3-D is coming in a very big way, and it will be glasses-free. PS3 will have it first and it will use glasses, other companies will follow suit as it grows in demand but when the glasses-free televisions hit the market it will be all but too easy to program the games for that display. Further more, putting it on a hand held is just as easy. Wink wink.
There is a fantastic controller ready to hit the market that is shaped like a ring. It needs no sensor bar and allows pixel-perfect aiming (even if someone stands in front of it) and ALWAYS knows where it is in relation to your body and the screen. No idea how its done, but it works and its badass. I talked before on why I think a console with no controller (just hands) is overly simplistic and will get clunky for the consumer to remember everything. Just imagine an FPS and switching weapons, quick turn, looking, jumping, and no controller? It will be more cardio than Wii Fit ever hoped to be. So the future of video games, as long as we use a monitor, will need a controller realistically. Sure, the wii sports-esque mini games, painting, simple games will be a riot on the Natal system but anything like Batman: Arkham Asylum, God of War, Call of Doody, even Mario Galaxy on a hands-only system would be a confusing trip through hand placement/movement and body positioning to even do the simplest of things.
The future has a controller, i'm almost certain.
So a DS2 that is also our home console - during the portable we use a stylus. A 2-D stylus that can only move in 2-D across the screen. It doesn't recognize 3-D movement... but the DS2 is a wiimote, itself is the 3-D controller. But this gets ridiculous, again, if you think of FPS schemes where looking would be physically moving your DS2 around you. But using the stylus to look, and using the DS2 to hold closer or further away from you to zoom in and out? Pretty spiffy. So Now we can handle the cross over because when you make it your console, you pick up a controller which has the motion tech of the DS2, that motion controller also has a pointer. You are now using the stylus and motion but using your TV as the screen... oh shit. Now we have another issue to overcome. If the DS2 is in fact dual screen, where's the second screen. On the DS2? So... is the DS2 in our laps or on the coffee table transmitting the game data to a wireless receiver to output on to the television? Sure, that should be quite possible indeed. But what would the cost be... so many questions.
But its still my theory, all i can do is wait.
DS2 is real, I cant talk about it beyond that. But i'm unsure if my theory still holds that it will be the all-in-one device in respect to it being the home console and the portable in one. One prototype has one screen similar to the PSP, but all the R&D is leaning towards the dual screen interface, there's even talk of a third screen that you see when it's closed.
My look at the market says 3-D is coming in a very big way, and it will be glasses-free. PS3 will have it first and it will use glasses, other companies will follow suit as it grows in demand but when the glasses-free televisions hit the market it will be all but too easy to program the games for that display. Further more, putting it on a hand held is just as easy. Wink wink.
There is a fantastic controller ready to hit the market that is shaped like a ring. It needs no sensor bar and allows pixel-perfect aiming (even if someone stands in front of it) and ALWAYS knows where it is in relation to your body and the screen. No idea how its done, but it works and its badass. I talked before on why I think a console with no controller (just hands) is overly simplistic and will get clunky for the consumer to remember everything. Just imagine an FPS and switching weapons, quick turn, looking, jumping, and no controller? It will be more cardio than Wii Fit ever hoped to be. So the future of video games, as long as we use a monitor, will need a controller realistically. Sure, the wii sports-esque mini games, painting, simple games will be a riot on the Natal system but anything like Batman: Arkham Asylum, God of War, Call of Doody, even Mario Galaxy on a hands-only system would be a confusing trip through hand placement/movement and body positioning to even do the simplest of things.
The future has a controller, i'm almost certain.
So a DS2 that is also our home console - during the portable we use a stylus. A 2-D stylus that can only move in 2-D across the screen. It doesn't recognize 3-D movement... but the DS2 is a wiimote, itself is the 3-D controller. But this gets ridiculous, again, if you think of FPS schemes where looking would be physically moving your DS2 around you. But using the stylus to look, and using the DS2 to hold closer or further away from you to zoom in and out? Pretty spiffy. So Now we can handle the cross over because when you make it your console, you pick up a controller which has the motion tech of the DS2, that motion controller also has a pointer. You are now using the stylus and motion but using your TV as the screen... oh shit. Now we have another issue to overcome. If the DS2 is in fact dual screen, where's the second screen. On the DS2? So... is the DS2 in our laps or on the coffee table transmitting the game data to a wireless receiver to output on to the television? Sure, that should be quite possible indeed. But what would the cost be... so many questions.
But its still my theory, all i can do is wait.