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TalkBack / RE: Nintendo Reveals "Third Pillar"!
« on: January 21, 2004, 09:28:54 AM »
Maybe everyone should stop thinking about the 'conventional' uses for a dual screen for a moment and try to think outside the box on this..
Yes, it's very likely that both screens will be used in different ways to play a game, but let's look at the proposed power of this handheld.
With what Nintendo are proposing I think it's quite likely that we could see a portable machine that not only plays games on the main screen (with added extras on the 2nd screen) but has a switchable user interface that would allow you to have mp3 tracklistings on the second screen, or maybe even some kind of video support (not unlike the mpeg playback capalities of the GP32 handheld). The fact that this system has a seperate processor for each screen means that it's probably going to do alot more than just display 2d maps, radars and options menus on the 2nd screen.
I can see this being Nintendo's first venture into possibly making an effective portable multimedia device, that you can still play games on while it's performing it's multimedia tricks.
I know non of this is confirmed and I could be totally wrong - but I just think that with the power they're proposing, this is the most obvious reason for having 2 screens...
Yes, it's very likely that both screens will be used in different ways to play a game, but let's look at the proposed power of this handheld.
With what Nintendo are proposing I think it's quite likely that we could see a portable machine that not only plays games on the main screen (with added extras on the 2nd screen) but has a switchable user interface that would allow you to have mp3 tracklistings on the second screen, or maybe even some kind of video support (not unlike the mpeg playback capalities of the GP32 handheld). The fact that this system has a seperate processor for each screen means that it's probably going to do alot more than just display 2d maps, radars and options menus on the 2nd screen.
I can see this being Nintendo's first venture into possibly making an effective portable multimedia device, that you can still play games on while it's performing it's multimedia tricks.
I know non of this is confirmed and I could be totally wrong - but I just think that with the power they're proposing, this is the most obvious reason for having 2 screens...
