HotWingConspiracy: Is there even a market for this anymore? Most people in to portable gaming are satisfied with playing a puzzle game for 15 minutes at a time.

You have a good point (albeit FarkSnark), I have both a 3DS and Vita but I'm a huge outlier in the industry now.  Nintendo is content to make a system for diehards, newbies, and kids and its successful (best Mario Kart, hands down).  And Playstation is going after the 'Gamers who are now respectable members of society and can afford it' demographic.  The Vita is great, I've beat FFVII and VIII on it and currently going through IX on it, the actual games made for it are pretty good (Sucker for Hot Shots), but it is treading water.  I saw something like the 3DS outsold the Vita 3x this year in Japan, which is turrible.

So after all the mumbling, what about a new portable that is going to have access to a store that most non-iPhone smartphones have access to.  So you're going to pay for a glorified iPod Touch?  Don't get me wrong, I think the device looks spiffy and I like the idea of them going after it....but yeah, 500$ Angry Birds Machine?


/CSB? Maybe?
//I like to hear the sound of my own typing
///S/l/a/s/h/i/e/s/

Looks clumsy.

antron Is this a response to AMD Hydravision?

I got that.

Well played and quite subtle.

Not sure why I would buy this. I can already use a wireless 360 controller with my Nexus 7. And it's still incredibly useful when not gaming.

NeoCortex42: Not sure why I would buy this. I can already use a wireless 360 controller with my Nexus 7. And it's still incredibly useful when not gaming.

What's the adapter you use to sync them up? I'm sure it isn't as simple as syncing up a Wii controller.

RoxtarRyan: NeoCortex42: Not sure why I would buy this. I can already use a wireless 360 controller with my Nexus 7. And it's still incredibly useful when not gaming.

What's the adapter you use to sync them up? I'm sure it isn't as simple as syncing up a Wii controller.

USB-OTG cable directly to a regular 360 wireless PC adapter. Then it just syncs up normally. It apparently has issues with some games, but all of my emulators recognize it perfectly.

larrimo: "Coming hot on the heels of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), which starts on Wednesday came a big announcement from NVIDIA revealing its Project Shield gaming device."

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Actually, CES starts tomorrow, but the general trend over the years is for vendors to start unveiling stuff ahead of CES to try to grab more of the early hype, so they've started demonstrating their stuff earlier and earlier until CES sorta-kinda unofficially begins on the Thursday/Friday prior.

Esc7: likefunbutnot: HotWingConspiracy: Is there even a market for this anymore? Most people in to portable gaming are satisfied with playing a puzzle game for 15 minutes at a time.

People still buy graphing calculators, so yeah, somewhere there's probably someone fantasizing about having a small Android tablet with a D-pad on it.

The only reason people buy graphing calculators is because the testing protocols only allow for a whitelist of calculating devices. Consequently Texas Instruments exploits this by selling hardware with probably a 1000% markup. It is highway robbery, but when you're student's education is on the line, 150$ is just under the threshold of telling them to FOAD.

/hates overcosted graphing calculators
//if we cared, we could probably get one in every single enrolled child's hands for 20$ a pop.

I love my TI-89 since I got it early in college. Definitely one of the most useful devices I've ever owned. However, I still can't believe how the price has hardly changed on them in over a decade.

Mog32Kupo: You have a good point (albeit FarkSnark), I have both a 3DS and Vita but I'm a huge outlier in the industry now. Nintendo is content to make a system for diehards, newbies, and kids and its successful (best Mario Kart, hands down). And Playstation is going after the 'Gamers who are now respectable members of society and can afford it' demographic. The Vita is great, I've beat FFVII and VIII on it and currently going through IX on it, the actual games made for it are pretty good (Sucker for Hot Shots), but it is treading water. I saw something like the 3DS outsold the Vita 3x this year in Japan, which is turrible.

Despite anyone's insistence elsewise, the portable video game market has always been the domain of the casual video game player, because portable devices have always been held back by their limited hardware and input schemes.  There have been some excellent portable game series (Advance Wars), but those don't have wide appeal to the audiences which buy portable game devices.  So basically, it becomes a market for those who value the advantage of portability.  Unfortunately, that consumer now "needs" a smartphone, and since quality doesn't mean a damn thing to them, they're going to choose the "necessary phone and free-to-one-dollar games" over the "250-dollar gaming device with 30-dollar games".  So the Vita is screwed in spite of being a fairly awesome piece of hardware, and everyone will have to see whether Nintendo's brand name holds up their portable platform.

the money is in the banana stand: Games are only as good as your input device allows for. Mouse and Keyboard is by far the best input device (except for Sim games where you want a joystick/steering wheel), therefor, whatever platform you come out with unless it supports that, it is not as good as a PC.

/flame on

There are games other than first'person shooters. If I'm playing a platformer, I want a gamepad. If I'm playing a fighting game, I need my arcade stick.

NeoCortex42: There are games other than first'person shooters. If I'm playing a platformer, I want a gamepad. If I'm playing a fighting game, I need my arcade stick.

and If I'm playing Kinectimals or Just Dance I need nothing, no controller, no shoes, no clothes.  I can bask in my naked self sweating, looking down at my Tiger pet knowing that if I shake my hips...he'll think I'm waving.