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Old 04-19-2011, 02:31 AM   #2943
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Originally Posted by Droford View Post
the damn thing probably will cost $200 if its got a 6 inch touchscreen on it..the fucking iPad costs $600 with a 9 inch screen.

If they're going to make the damn thing so expensive they might as well make it the next game boy while they're at it. People fucking pay $300 for phones to sit around and play angry birds on..

Plus the 3DS is a joke and its being outsold by the PSP in Japan. I dont think the 3DS is anything more than another .5 revision of the DS like the XL and Lite were. A damn 6 inch touchscreen system with controller capabilities for their new console would be awesome.
Droford... fucking hell. The iphone is a fucking miniature computer. It's $600 because it can do a lot of shit. Yeah, it plays Angry Birds, but it's also got 132576324578623578 apps that do everything from word processing to GPS to turning your living room lights off from 1000 miles away. Touchscreens cost next to nothing. It's not a factor. If you were arguing about the extra tech inside that they'd need, you might have a point. All the stuff mentioned in the quote below my little spiel here makes me think we're looking at $40 to $50 controllers. And that's fair. PS3 and 360 controllers cost that and they don't have screens at all.


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Originally Posted by Smelly Meatball View Post
Update on the rumored Nintendo controller:

A source inside of Ubisoft is saying the current beta HD screen on the controller can show off 3D glasses-free stuff. Another source says the controller itself is much more accurate and stronger than the WiiMote Plus and PS Move. The screen does allow streaming from console to controller and could mimic how the Nintendo DS separates stuff with two screens.

EA, Activision, Ubisoft and other big studios have had the development kits as early as late 2010.
Sounds cool. It'll be cooler if they confirm it.

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Originally Posted by Kalyx triaD View Post
Can't publishers just charge a higher price willy-nilly?
They can and that's what got THQ into so much trouble. Charging $60 (fucking $70 here in Canada) for a game that's not even good, let alone as good as titles like Halo: Reach, Red Dead Redemption or any other AAA title is ludicrous. Well, that and spending entirely too much money making Homefront as a Hail Mary effort and then botching it doesn't help either.

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