Money Well Spent
Well, looks like I made the right choice when I bought the DS. Nintendo Japan today announced their plans for cartridge releases this year, including:
1) Wireless Internet
2) HD TV reception
3) Foreign language translators
4) Penmanship training programs
5) Talking cookbooks
6) Reference guides (encyclopedia? dictionary?)
Brilliant!
I've been pining for something like this for years. The beauty of doing it for the DS, as opposed to a system like the Game Boy or the PSP, is that, with the exception of the antenna for the HD, none of these requires any extra hardware. The touch screen can be used to type web addresses, change channels, scribble your writings, or select step 3 of your bundt cake recipe. And the article says each of these cartridges will be available for only about $30 bucks.
Now they are close to only three more pieces of software that would blow Sony out of the market:
1) Office software. Hell, you could sell a cartridge with a day planner, a notepad, a voice recorder, and a calculator for 10 bucks and be a yuppie's best friend. And it's gotta be extremely simple to do, too, you could probably sell it for $15, $20 bucks and still turn a profit.
2) Movies. Yeah, I'm sure that, right now, the cartridge format probably isn't equipped for it, unlike the PSP. But, for the love of pete, Nintendo was releasing one-hour cartoons for the Advance. The ADVANCE! Give this technology two or three years and you could easily fit a 2-hour motion picture onto a DS cartridge.
3) Satellite radio. The one thing that the DS has going for it right now is it's dual compatability. Beyond the backward compatibility of the PS2 or the X-Box 360, the DS is the only system in the history of the market that has two separate game ports, one for DS, one for Advance. Nintendo, hook up with Sirius or XM, make a satellite reciever that can be plugged into the Advance port, and your customer can listen to the radio as they're playing their games.
Damn, why haven't they hired me yet?
1) Wireless Internet
2) HD TV reception
3) Foreign language translators
4) Penmanship training programs
5) Talking cookbooks
6) Reference guides (encyclopedia? dictionary?)
Brilliant!
I've been pining for something like this for years. The beauty of doing it for the DS, as opposed to a system like the Game Boy or the PSP, is that, with the exception of the antenna for the HD, none of these requires any extra hardware. The touch screen can be used to type web addresses, change channels, scribble your writings, or select step 3 of your bundt cake recipe. And the article says each of these cartridges will be available for only about $30 bucks.
Now they are close to only three more pieces of software that would blow Sony out of the market:
1) Office software. Hell, you could sell a cartridge with a day planner, a notepad, a voice recorder, and a calculator for 10 bucks and be a yuppie's best friend. And it's gotta be extremely simple to do, too, you could probably sell it for $15, $20 bucks and still turn a profit.
2) Movies. Yeah, I'm sure that, right now, the cartridge format probably isn't equipped for it, unlike the PSP. But, for the love of pete, Nintendo was releasing one-hour cartoons for the Advance. The ADVANCE! Give this technology two or three years and you could easily fit a 2-hour motion picture onto a DS cartridge.
3) Satellite radio. The one thing that the DS has going for it right now is it's dual compatability. Beyond the backward compatibility of the PS2 or the X-Box 360, the DS is the only system in the history of the market that has two separate game ports, one for DS, one for Advance. Nintendo, hook up with Sirius or XM, make a satellite reciever that can be plugged into the Advance port, and your customer can listen to the radio as they're playing their games.
Damn, why haven't they hired me yet?
posted by Bill at 2:10 PM
1 Comments:
You mentioned movies, I don't know if you've seen this yet but you'll probably be interested.
http://www.engadget.com/2006/02/13/nintendo-ds-max-media-player-with-4gb-drive/
It adds a bit of bulk but not much.
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