Barkley said:
Because we live in the age of smartphones, the DS wouldn't have been the success it was if it was released just a few years later. The DS appealed to non-gamers, but the tablets and smart phones have the demographic that the DS managed to capture covered now. Good luck coming up with a NEW gimmick that appeals to the mainstream, even if managed it would be copied onto IOS/Android devices within a very limited time span. |
Whether they do it as a tablet, hybrid, or dediccated handheld, they run into the same problem. Making it tablet shaped isn't going to magically make it sell better, and it drives them into competition with competing devices. Making a tablet that could hook up to a TV isn't anything special. Tablets can do that, and the technology will imrpove.
They need a selling point (aka gimmick) for this thing either way. Making it a tablet doesn't solve that problem.
