While the PSP and the DS are not considered "next-gen" (anymore anyways) there have been great great 2D side scrollers for them. LocoRoco and new Super Mario Bros. anyone?
When I was a teenager we had a computer that had one of those new fangled high speed 28.8 modems. The thing worked like a champ until one day it wouldn't dial out to connect to any BBS systems. Tried everything would could think of. Then one of us lifted the phone off of its base (yes...it was a corded phone) to listen for those classic handshake signals (you know the ones I'm talking about). The modem worked! We couldn't explain it. It turns out it would only be able to communicate with anything if we lifted the receiver and leave it off the hook. I would disconnect the handset to avoid any interference getting through; I didn't want any of my ASCII art downloads to get corrupted!
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While the PSP and the DS are not considered "next-gen" (anymore anyways) there have been great great 2D side scrollers for them. LocoRoco and new Super Mario Bros. anyone?
When I was a teenager we had a computer that had one of those new fangled high speed 28.8 modems. The thing worked like a champ until one day it wouldn't dial out to connect to any BBS systems. Tried everything would could think of. Then one of us lifted the phone off of its base (yes...it was a corded phone) to listen for those classic handshake signals (you know the ones I'm talking about). The modem worked! We couldn't explain it. It turns out it would only be able to communicate with anything if we lifted the receiver and leave it off the hook. I would disconnect the handset to avoid any interference getting through; I didn't want any of my ASCII art downloads to get corrupted!