| kowenicki said: I dont see shades and a glove as remotely viable or attractive. Very few people would want to play that in public... You are right though... its a rock and a hard place, iPhone has the phone plus gaming thing cornered at the moment and to compete here with a fully functional phone AND decent form size AND decent battery life AND gaming prowess like the psp would be an expensive beast. The DS has the pure gaming side even more cornered and they look like being first with the 3DS too, and THAT will sell like crazy. Either way a PSP2 that is too similar to the PSP is screwed. To be fair the PSP has done well considering its ancient UI... no touchscreen for god sake!!!!? in this day and age? |
You just have to imagine if it were made attractive. People wear shades all the time. If you could make a pair that were sleek, unobtrusive, and inconspicuous, it could do a lot.
In Heavy Rain, there was a part where the detective was sitting at a chair waiting for a meeting to end. In that part you can put on the shades, and throw a holographic ball against an invisible wall. According to the credits, there was also a game in which tanks rolled around on a table and fired at each other. This is a very cool concept, and would be very viable in the future because:
-it can be a phone
-you could have varying opacity levels
-you could play despite weather (too hard to play a handheld in the rain or in bright sunlight)
-you could read without having to hold anything
-etc etc
