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Nintendo DS TV Adapter Hands-On Review
Nintendo DS News writes "Lik Sang have posted a great hands-on article examining the new Nintendo DS TV Adapter. From the article: 'Both projects are converters displaying the image of your Nintendo handheld on Television sets. One is for the Gameboy Advance SP, the other is, more interestingly for the smoking hot Nintendo DS system.'"
The unit is a prototype and a distributor is need, so don't expect it any time soon...
If Nintendo came out with an official tv adapter, would they call it the "Nintendo Tii Vii"?
"Is there a market out there full of people who want to use their portable devices in the least portable way possible?"
If the DS's (or GBA's) main selling point to you is "portable," then no. If it's "good games," however, then yes, there is always a market to play those good games on a television.
"Good games" is why I have a GBA Player attatched to my GameCube, and why I'm worried about not seeing a GBA slot on the Wii.
It looks just like the insanity they're trying to push with the PSP: a small camera pointed at the handheld's screen. Yes, there are DS games I'd be interested in seeing on a television, but this is not the way I would do it.
I'll pass on this. Why would I want to sit a foot away from my TV to use this? Not to mention, I don't like the idea of getting fingerprints all over my TV screen.
This guy's the limit!
"but hinders it as you look back and forth between your handheld and the television?"
Never played Zelda: Four Swords Adventure or Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles?
or now knows as Nintento Puu.
There are websites out there where people record their best Mariokart times and you can see the video of them. So there is a market abeit a small one of people who is in the market for this.