dharh said:
jarrod said:
dharh said:
Yes looking back on it id say mid year 1 for GBA. Even though I abhorred the design, mayhap I blocked out the first purchase? When it went clamshell with the GBA SP is when it finally became acceptable. You will notice though based on my GBA collection, most of them aren't year one im pretty sure.
I coulda sworn I read something about a tuner card for the DS. Regardless, the only good strategy would be download anyway since both UMD video and DS video carts were a dud and i'd hope they get wider studio support than Disney/WB/DW.
As far as the converting video thing. The point is that gamers generally only want to carry around two devices. If you don't have a smartphone then the 3DS/PSP2 is your only option for multi-media. So the better they are the better.
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Yeah, the original GBA was an awful design, as was the original DS actually. To be honest, I'm not thrilled with the 3DS design either, the DSL/i/iXL are all better aesthetically imo. If you're one of those "only one system, ever" people, it'd probably be better waiting a year on 3DS (and PSP2 for that matter).
Nintendo's never released a TV tuner for any of their handhelds afaik, though they did do the Mobile GB adapter way back as well as the GBA and DS music players/SD adapters. There was a 1-seg PSP TV tuner though, which never came west now that I think about it... I guess SCEA/SCEE must not care about multimedia and PSP2 is inevitably doomed on that front? :P
And yeah, 3DS will get wider support than just who was present at E3. Even Avatar is rumored for the system (and would be a natural fit).
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Was the 1-seg an actual SONY product? I was thinking the DS tuner thing was a 3rd party thing. I would never think Nintendo made the tuner itself, that's just crazy talk.
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Yes, the 1-seg tuner was Sony. So was the PSP GPS iirc (which Europe might've gotten)?
