Firstly - well done DS. This is truly amazing, and my mind jumps back to the Ninty press conference where they first unveiled the DS (and everyone said.. WTF?).
"If the DS is successful, we will rise to the heights of heaven - if it fails, we will sink to the depths of hell" (Ninty CEO on the DS, before it was released)
Its certainly heaven at the moment!
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Secondly - I pointed this out in another thread, and its something that people have missed completely.
The DS/PSP are the FIRST generation of handhelds that can actually run console games - primarily because they are the first handhelds that can SERIOUSLY do 3D.
This is very relevant, and very significant: prior to this gen, handheld development was a *completely* different beast from console dev - there was NO overlap between the PS1/GameBoy, or the PS2/GameboyAdvance.
Its completely different now - its actually EASIER going from Wii development to DS (technically), than it is going from the Wii to the PS3.
In technical terms, handhelds have joined the same market that consoles are in (but not the other way - as consoles are NOT portable!) - otherwise there is no way DragonQuest would have moved to the DS.
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