Rath said:
Agreed, thus the smartest thing for N to do is to release a hardware revision at the same time as DQ9. With bundles. Lots of bundles. Thats guaranteed to be good. |
I'm not so sure about that, not entirely... here's why: as we saw with GBA, the first revision, the GBA SP, sold like hotcakes, the second one did not (GB Micro). My guess is that the market was saturated and not many people were interested in changing something that was fine and working anyway.
The only difference here is that the GBM was released very late, near the end of the GBA's life cycle.
Also let's consider what Nintendo can do to improve the DS! I don't see any change to the design of this console that can improve it:
- backlighting is good and so are the screens (even dimension-wide as making screens smaller would make the touch screen unplayable);
- the dimensions can't be shrinked anymore as there would be no spaces for buttons or you will need to sacrifice the GBA port (which is used from some additional peripherals, so it's out of question unless you can integrate them to the body) to make it thinner;
- battery life is at least twice as the PSP.
The only thing that you can change is the shape, but I feel difficult to come up to another one that look so cool and polished like that.
The first model of the DS was bulky, the screens not so bright (and there were 'light spot' on them) and definetivly not cool at all.
Improving this model require serious thinking or they will face another GBM failure in terms of appeal!!!
