I would recommend you give a mac a try. I got mine also for development purposes and haven't looked back since (12" PowerBook).
Again linux is a cheaper alternative but keeping the Mac up to date is much simpler.
I mean, without even seeing the product first hand, people are putting down money on hardware that is unproven.
Unproven you say?
How many people out there use a mobile phone with some games that are networkable?
How many people own or have used a PDA?
How many people have played a console game and wished they could take it with them out on the road?
I don't think there is anything unproven about what nintendo are trying to sell. It is built upon ideas that are already a reality in todays world and as well as introducing a new way of gameplay - perhaps the network gaming that everyone is after , free.
There are rumours a new GameBoy is in the works. I can't recall the link (nintendojo.com I think) but apprently DS is a new line of portable gaming and the Gameboy will continue to Advance (no pun intended) in parallel.
It doesn't worry about having to play a DVD or VCD because it's a Games Machine. Quite frankly the one thing that put me off getting a PS2 was the fact that it's not a dedicated Games console. If I want a DVD player I'll get a DVD player.
Still with the DS having a backward compatibility with the GBA game paks, I would say Nintendo have no worries about a game lineup for a little while yet.
If your referring to the Nintendo DS, then you would be wrong in calling it a gameboy as it is not a continnuation of the Gameboy series. It may emulate it but apprently it is not one.
Well I own a GBA and a GBA SP mainly because Nintendo keeps releasing games that there are 2 friggin version of which you need both to get the most out of one!!;-)
The GBA SP eats through batteries several times faster than a CD player
The GBA SP has a rechargable battery so I don't see why you want to replace that faster than you would in a CD player and the battery lasts a very good 12 hours at most.
Also considering a CD player doesn't have a graphics processor [like that in a GBA SP] and colour screen I can't see how you can compare the two of them.
The one thing that intereseted me about Voyager was the fact that they had a mission - to get home. They weren't just wondering around bumping into planets because they had nothing else to do.
To be honest the way they tackled future events was done quite well and I was hoping that something along the lines of Start Trek Relativity (set way into the future) could have been a better spin off. Who knows maybe making a series with Federation Delta quadrant posts could be a better idea than sucking all the technology out and calling it "Enterprise".
I watched Voyager and enjoyed it purely for the fact that it was set in the far future not a few decades ahead. I'm not interested in what might have happened in the next century I want to see further than that.
The whole Xindi saga in Enterprise was probably the better season of the whole thing (it had that ongoing storyline) and who is to know how the temporal cold war will take us but they are still flicking switches and using shuttle pods - where has all the technology gone?
For now I'm sticking with Stargate SG1 and Atlantis (Atlantis more for the technology of the Ancients). If Season 4 for enterprise actually evolves to something worthwhile then maybe I'll watch it.
Okay, so I was speaking metaphorically, of course they would probably have a special plug for the gamecube, and this still leaves one question about the wireless adaptor for GBA/SP. Is this strictly only for Pokemon LG/FR or will it work provided there is another receiver for any game that has connectivity? Will it be compatible with the NDS? Why would nintendo go and create these options that are totally incompatible with each other?
Although Nintendo have always advocated that they are not in the market to make multifunctional platforms like the PlayStation and XBox but strictly games consoles.
Although it amazes me that they decided to start selling video paks of pokemon - though I guess from the marketing side of things it may make sense.
So Nintendo don't stick to an industry standard but they have been able to create one for themselves. Who is to say that we won't see rewritable game paks for other media (vid/aud)?
If PSP includes functionality to play 3.5" cd's how many shops do you think are going to start selling them? You'll find people ripping their own CD's and compiling their own, don't think the music industry would like that! Neither do I think many others care but Sony does have a high stake in the music industry as well.
Okay so my last 2 statements are contradictory, so what...;-)
Ultimately it all comes down to whats best for each company not just for their clients.
I also doubt parents will be too keen on shelling out money for a slightly spiffier Game Boy for their kids
Okay there is the assumption that only kids play GameBoy/SP there. I'm not arguing that yes they do take up a majority of the market but do you really think the PSP is targetted at kids? Looking at the specs of the PSP I highly doubt it.
I think nintendo have done a great job of neutralising the childish look that the prototype had as it aims to bridge the user group across from kids and more senior users.
I was a bit concerned the whole "safety curve" version may be the only version available which definately looks like a kids toy but with the technology embedded in it I think it's much more.
Doesn't Looking glass try to make more of the desktop rather than just tilt windows though? I mean Looking glass has the option to do more with a window, like giving a window more than just the one surface to work with.
Not sure how young Metisse is but all it appears to be able to do is rotate windows...
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You can already get Opera for Symbian so why use windows?
Just think all the functionality on your nokia on a DS, hmmmm sounds familiar somehow....
I would recommend you give a mac a try. I got mine also for development purposes and haven't looked back since (12" PowerBook). Again linux is a cheaper alternative but keeping the Mac up to date is much simpler.
Hmmm... and mindless zombies like to repeat themselves too ;-)
Yeah, I just noticed it ;-)
Unproven you say?
How many people out there use a mobile phone with some games that are networkable?
How many people own or have used a PDA?
How many people have played a console game and wished they could take it with them out on the road?
I don't think there is anything unproven about what nintendo are trying to sell. It is built upon ideas that are already a reality in todays world and as well as introducing a new way of gameplay - perhaps the network gaming that everyone is after , free.
There are rumours a new GameBoy is in the works. I can't recall the link (nintendojo.com I think) but apprently DS is a new line of portable gaming and the Gameboy will continue to Advance (no pun intended) in parallel.
Hmmm, they should rename the new Playstation 2 slim to PSTwo in retrospect to the PSOne....
Actually I should be corrected there, I have a GBA, GBA SP and a Gameboy Player for my game cube.
3) And the GC is primarily a Games Machine.
It doesn't worry about having to play a DVD or VCD because it's a Games Machine. Quite frankly the one thing that put me off getting a PS2 was the fact that it's not a dedicated Games console. If I want a DVD player I'll get a DVD player.
Aside from the fact that the PS2 also needs to worry about DVDs and the Gamecube does not.
Still with the DS having a backward compatibility with the GBA game paks, I would say Nintendo have no worries about a game lineup for a little while yet.
If your referring to the Nintendo DS, then you would be wrong in calling it a gameboy as it is not a continnuation of the Gameboy series. It may emulate it but apprently it is not one.
Well I own a GBA and a GBA SP mainly because Nintendo keeps releasing games that there are 2 friggin version of which you need both to get the most out of one!! ;-)
Now thats one way to sell a product.
It also has a very mature pirate market.
I would expect this to be mostly up to the game publishers not specifically Nintendo.
The GBA SP has a rechargable battery so I don't see why you want to replace that faster than you would in a CD player and the battery lasts a very good 12 hours at most.
Also considering a CD player doesn't have a graphics processor [like that in a GBA SP] and colour screen I can't see how you can compare the two of them.
Sun wants to convert C/++ programmers over to Java while MS want to convert Java Programmers to C#!?!?!?!
How is that for a trend?
The one thing that intereseted me about Voyager was the fact that they had a mission - to get home. They weren't just wondering around bumping into planets because they had nothing else to do.
To be honest the way they tackled future events was done quite well and I was hoping that something along the lines of Start Trek Relativity (set way into the future) could have been a better spin off. Who knows maybe making a series with Federation Delta quadrant posts could be a better idea than sucking all the technology out and calling it "Enterprise".
I watched Voyager and enjoyed it purely for the fact that it was set in the far future not a few decades ahead. I'm not interested in what might have happened in the next century I want to see further than that.
The whole Xindi saga in Enterprise was probably the better season of the whole thing (it had that ongoing storyline) and who is to know how the temporal cold war will take us but they are still flicking switches and using shuttle pods - where has all the technology gone?
For now I'm sticking with Stargate SG1 and Atlantis (Atlantis more for the technology of the Ancients). If Season 4 for enterprise actually evolves to something worthwhile then maybe I'll watch it.
Okay, so I was speaking metaphorically, of course they would probably have a special plug for the gamecube, and this still leaves one question about the wireless adaptor for GBA/SP. Is this strictly only for Pokemon LG/FR or will it work provided there is another receiver for any game that has connectivity? Will it be compatible with the NDS? Why would nintendo go and create these options that are totally incompatible with each other?
Lots to think about there....
So why did Nintendo change the look to something less, how would you put it, childish?
Although Nintendo have always advocated that they are not in the market to make multifunctional platforms like the PlayStation and XBox but strictly games consoles.
Although it amazes me that they decided to start selling video paks of pokemon - though I guess from the marketing side of things it may make sense.
So Nintendo don't stick to an industry standard but they have been able to create one for themselves. Who is to say that we won't see rewritable game paks for other media (vid/aud)?
If PSP includes functionality to play 3.5" cd's how many shops do you think are going to start selling them? You'll find people ripping their own CD's and compiling their own, don't think the music industry would like that! Neither do I think many others care but Sony does have a high stake in the music industry as well.
Okay so my last 2 statements are contradictory, so what... ;-)
Ultimately it all comes down to whats best for each company not just for their clients.
It will probably work on the same wireless concept as the waverbird controllers...well it only seems logical doesn't it???
Okay there is the assumption that only kids play GameBoy/SP there. I'm not arguing that yes they do take up a majority of the market but do you really think the PSP is targetted at kids? Looking at the specs of the PSP I highly doubt it.
I think nintendo have done a great job of neutralising the childish look that the prototype had as it aims to bridge the user group across from kids and more senior users.
I was a bit concerned the whole "safety curve" version may be the only version available which definately looks like a kids toy but with the technology embedded in it I think it's much more.
"I wish my fav scifi shows had muppets for aliens, too." Well Thor and the Asgaard in SG-1 aren't exactly real now are they? ;-)
Doesn't Looking glass try to make more of the desktop rather than just tilt windows though? I mean Looking glass has the option to do more with a window, like giving a window more than just the one surface to work with.
Not sure how young Metisse is but all it appears to be able to do is rotate windows...