Hiku said:
Soundwave said:
Well I mean maybe the device is not made for you?
I think it probably is primarily targetted to a new generation of kids who consume 90% of their entertainment content on tablets and love to play on them everywhere they go.
Nintendo bringing their unique brand of multiplayer fun with full games is something no other tablet can have, and I think parents will gladly rather pay $300 for one device that does it all rather than a $400 iPad + $300 game console, or $300 Nintendo console + $200 Nintendo portable.
Tablet screens are great these days too, I'd think two people not being able to see what's going on is much of an issue.
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I hope their demographic isn't something new that comes at the expense of their core audience.
With a decent size tablet, visability is less of an issue. But they're generally a lot bigger than what I'd imagine the size of a Nintendo portable would be. Or else the concept of putting a Nintendo portable in your pocket will be gone.
These days everyone has some sort of device with entertainment on it. And I imagine people would rather use their own device if playing together on one device is the least bit uncomfortable.
Imagine the smallest possible comfortable controller you can think of, with enough buttons to accomodate todays games? To me, that would be something like a SNES controller (if it had an extra set of shoulder buttons) or a Wiimote + Nunchuck. Now think of how much space two of those would take up, and attach it to this system. That seems too clunky to me.
Nintendo don't usually ship their home consoles with more than one controller (Maybe for the NES? I can't remember.) where it's comfortable to play multiplayer games, but now they'll do it for a portable?
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Kids and the family crowd are Nintendo's core audience.
25-35 year old men who are Nintendo diehards will buy one to play the new Zelda/Mario/Smash Brothers/etc. even if they have to do so grumbling about it.
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