15th November 2007, 7:51 AM
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/11/15/anothe...s-analyst/
Interesting, except for one thing:
"Pacific Crest Securities analyst Evan Wilson"
A security system analyst for some random company? What possible contacts could he have, and why does that title matter except to give a false sense of credibility? I'm not sure I buy it, certainly not just because Evan Wilson says so, even if he IS a great securities analyst for Pacific Crest themselves.
There's also the matter of the details. Bigger screens? As it stands those screens are as big as they can get without making the system bigger, and making it thinner at the cost of making it wider doesn't sit well with me. Removing GBA support? Aside from not being able to play GBA games on one any more, cutting into sales of GBA games that are still going fairly strong (though I do play the majority of my GBA games on my SP), that also removes support for the add-on packs Nintendo's been making for the DS, such as the rumble cart (supported by like 3 games and none in a good while actually), and more importantly the SD card slot. Would they just add native rumble to the thing and replace the GBA slot WITH an SD card slot? Further, doesn't the DS make use of the old GBA hardware as a secondary processor? It would essentially still be able to play GBA games but just lack the all important slot, which doesn't seem like that big a cost saver considering the money to be made from adding it through GBA game sales. Also, what's this "on-board storage" even supposed to do anyway? DS games don't tend to use memory cards as it is, and it seems like quite a bit to spend on a feature that games don't even use. Designing NEW games to access it would also segregate the market between older DS models and the new "hotness". Further, if the idea is to have it replace the SD card adapter, well it's pretty limited then because it would STILL have to have a slot to copy in data from an actual SD card to put pictures and MP3s and so on in there (if it's for stuff like some MP3 player software), and if you are going to plug in an SD card to copy anyway you might as well just USE that SD card.
The whole thing seems fishy to me. I mean the GB got two remodels (the pocket and the later "Lite" released only in Japan that was basically a Pocket system with a backlight), but generally they only remodel their systems once.
Interesting, except for one thing:
"Pacific Crest Securities analyst Evan Wilson"
A security system analyst for some random company? What possible contacts could he have, and why does that title matter except to give a false sense of credibility? I'm not sure I buy it, certainly not just because Evan Wilson says so, even if he IS a great securities analyst for Pacific Crest themselves.
There's also the matter of the details. Bigger screens? As it stands those screens are as big as they can get without making the system bigger, and making it thinner at the cost of making it wider doesn't sit well with me. Removing GBA support? Aside from not being able to play GBA games on one any more, cutting into sales of GBA games that are still going fairly strong (though I do play the majority of my GBA games on my SP), that also removes support for the add-on packs Nintendo's been making for the DS, such as the rumble cart (supported by like 3 games and none in a good while actually), and more importantly the SD card slot. Would they just add native rumble to the thing and replace the GBA slot WITH an SD card slot? Further, doesn't the DS make use of the old GBA hardware as a secondary processor? It would essentially still be able to play GBA games but just lack the all important slot, which doesn't seem like that big a cost saver considering the money to be made from adding it through GBA game sales. Also, what's this "on-board storage" even supposed to do anyway? DS games don't tend to use memory cards as it is, and it seems like quite a bit to spend on a feature that games don't even use. Designing NEW games to access it would also segregate the market between older DS models and the new "hotness". Further, if the idea is to have it replace the SD card adapter, well it's pretty limited then because it would STILL have to have a slot to copy in data from an actual SD card to put pictures and MP3s and so on in there (if it's for stuff like some MP3 player software), and if you are going to plug in an SD card to copy anyway you might as well just USE that SD card.
The whole thing seems fishy to me. I mean the GB got two remodels (the pocket and the later "Lite" released only in Japan that was basically a Pocket system with a backlight), but generally they only remodel their systems once.
"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)