one big upside should be that all the old stuff should port pretty easy as its really an Update of an older machine (if they wan to admit it or not). With Pandora (not that it would be hard) you will have to add for the keyboard, etc to old code if you want to use it. Easier ports generaly have a better chance on obscure equipment then rewrote ports. But of course if they take off, that point is moot as the ports will come with user base no matter what.
Most of this handheld stuff is going to be a really tough sell now with Phones taking that market on. Nintendo will alwasy print money with there handhelds.. but the rest.. who knows with how phones are advancing.
I have always wondered when people have the time to play games on phones, I am an avid gamer, but seldom find more then a 2-3 minutes to play on my phone, and rarely (like 2-4 times in the last 2 years) an hour of boredom where its my entertainment. But I do not live in a city where cabs or trains are transportation, I drive everywhere, and if i ride with somebody we normaly talk. Its more of a wierd concept to me (people in large cities) to use public transportation or do meetings and such where you do alot of waiting. I'm lucky (or unlucky depending on how you look at it) I do not have alot of "wait" time away from home.
Stuff like my GP2X are more a "wow, cool, lookw what i got it to do thing" then a real game machine. I spent hours getting emu's going on my GP and PSP, XBOX, etc.. to see If i could, far more time then I spent playing.
Though I must admit the Snes RPG's did get played more then a few nights when I was going to bed on the GP2X, not that I didnt have a SNES to play um on... it was just cool to do it on that handheld :)
one big upside should be that all the old stuff should port pretty easy as its really an Update of an older machine (if they wan to admit it or not). With Pandora (not that it would be hard) you will have to add for the keyboard, etc to old code if you want to use it. Easier ports generaly have a better chance on obscure equipment then rewrote ports. But of course if they take off, that point is moot as the ports will come with user base no matter what.
Most of this handheld stuff is going to be a really tough sell now with Phones taking that market on. Nintendo will alwasy print money with there handhelds.. but the rest.. who knows with how phones are advancing.
I have always wondered when people have the time to play games on phones, I am an avid gamer, but seldom find more then a 2-3 minutes to play on my phone, and rarely (like 2-4 times in the last 2 years) an hour of boredom where its my entertainment. But I do not live in a city where cabs or trains are transportation, I drive everywhere, and if i ride with somebody we normaly talk. Its more of a wierd concept to me (people in large cities) to use public transportation or do meetings and such where you do alot of waiting. I'm lucky (or unlucky depending on how you look at it) I do not have alot of "wait" time away from home.
Stuff like my GP2X are more a "wow, cool, lookw what i got it to do thing" then a real game machine. I spent hours getting emu's going on my GP and PSP, XBOX, etc.. to see If i could, far more time then I spent playing.
Though I must admit the Snes RPG's did get played more then a few nights when I was going to bed on the GP2X, not that I didnt have a SNES to play um on... it was just cool to do it on that handheld :)