Soundwave said:
I don't really think it would be that complicated. Base Console. Cheap. Home Dock. LCD + Battery Pak if you want to take it on the go. If this is too complicated, video games probably aren't for you to begin with. Even the Wiimote was modular and upgraded. You had to buy a nunchaku (sold seperately) to play all games and then you had to buy a Wii Motion Plus to play other games on top of that. The thing is if you're too stupid/out of touch to figure out what to buy, the base console will be more than enough for you. If you can't understand a home dock, you probably can't tell the difference between 720p or 1080p or even know what 4K means or what 30 fps vs 60 fps is, so you wouldn't need any of that stuff. |
It's not so much to do with not knowing how to figure it out, but with it just not being a cohesive and approachable design. You're talking about popping and lcd and battery pack in and out of your base console(which is useless on its own, if i understand correctly) plus the home dock, and whatever coontrols and cables go along with that. I dunno, it just sounds like the antithesis of the whole "approachable" "just works" direction that electronics have been going in for the past decade. I can't imagine anyone looking at all those parts and thinking "I want to buy this for my kid." Even if it comes preassembled, I can't think of how they could market the modular fuctionality without making it seem like too much of a hassle for most people to be bothered with.
With the Wiimote, you just plugged your nunchuck in and you were done. Motion plus was a bit more complicated, but the Wiimote had only one port, so, once again, pretty straight forward. Even then I'm sure you had people wondering why they needed that little addon in the first place.
