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It never really took off, but Nintendo has already put full-color screens in our hands with a console. They had a few GameCube games that could use GameBoyAdva
by corysama 15y ago
It never really took off, but Nintendo has already put full-color screens in our hands with a console. They had a few GameCube games that could use GameBoyAdvance devices as controllers. The best application I saw for it was the PacMan party game. One player plays PacMan. He sees the whole board on his GBA screen. Three players play ghosts. They all share the TV, but they can only see the board immediately around themselves. The ghosts had to work together to narrow down where the PacMan player was hiding.
- jerf 15y agoI don't really count those, because historically speaking having to buy extra peripherals limits the amount of success such things can have. Effective failure of addons isn't proof that a console can't make a go of the some technology if it ships with it; motion controls are one example, hard drives are another. (The PS2 could have a hard drive, but until consoles shipped with them and they could basically be counted on (yes you could get XBox 360s without hard drives but it was understood that you were going to have a limited experience), they weren't useful for very much.)
- corysama 15y agoI don't have an strong opinion on the WiiU yet. I just think it's interesting that Nintendo is brave enough to not only try crazy ideas, but to also try them again even if they weren't total successes the first time. Illustration from Reddit: http://i.imgur.com/4GVMY.png http://i.imgur.com/4GVMY.png