| Arkk said:
If they made the top screen touch sensitive, we would still be able to play all of the original DS games. It would just add a new dynamic to games being made in the future. |
But it would make it so any games that used the top touch screen would be unplayable on older DSes, all 65 million of them, hence why this wouldn't work if this functionality was added.
A redesign with a different screen size could still work, as games could be resized and all, but new functionality is something that would cause huge problems as it would create a software divide.
"I mean, c'mon, Viva Pinata, a game with massive marketing, didn't sell worth a damn to the "sophisticated" 360 audience, despite near-universal praise--is that a sign that 360 owners are a bunch of casual ignoramuses that can't get their heads around a 'gardening' sim? Of course not. So let's please stop trying to micro-analyze one game out of hundreds and using it as the poster child for why good, non-1st party, games can't sell on Wii. (Everyone frequenting this site knows this is nonsense, and yet some of you just can't let it go because it's the only scab you have left to pick at after all your other "Wii will phail1!!1" straw men arguments have been put to the torch.)" - exindguy on Boom Blocks
