Just more evidence that rather than banding together as "Handheld" gamers, people would rather just beat up on each other. Wolves fight as a pack. Gamers are like a wolf pack that kill each other from the inside out and then all eventually die of starvation.
The ten game boy advance games are top games from the system. I'm now catching up on games I didn't play as a kid.
Inaccuracy in article:
"Most games require around 50 blocks of memory."
Not even close. They range from 47 to 143. Only three are in the upper 40s range. Four are at 70ish and the rest at 140ish.
Don't report without doing research or confirming your sources. Bloody amateurs.
Sony haters did the exact same thing to us over the last six months. It would be great if instead of a "Sony" crowd and a "Nintendo" crowd we had a "United for Handhelds" crowd, but Sony fans spent that time laughing at us the last six months. You reap what you sow.
I do the same thing thing when I find a Sony site. ;)
Ok, thanks fro clarifying! Bubble up.
Bubble up for funny-ness.
This person clearly doesn't play a lot of DS/3DS.
Starship Defense doesn't make the list?
Mario vs Donkey Kong is a GBA game. Mario vs Donkey Kong: Minis March Again is the DSiware hit.
No Four Swords? Are you kidding me?
Cave Story?
Makes me doubt their experience with handhelds. Clearly not in the know. The list reads like they found a partial list somewhere online and just added it to their a...
So long as the battery draws off phone and games and calls interrupt games this will never work.
Until these hardware and logistical problems are solved, it isn't happening.
After researching the list more, I'm very impressed with this batch. I'm not much for gaming nostalgia and I was not near impressed with the NES offerings as much as some people were. Most NES games just haven't aged well. But this collection looks great.
I'm glad I had put off downloading Minis March Again, because I just got it for free. Its an awesome game.
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I DO carry around my phone more. Its a slide out "texting" phone that has no capabilities other than calling and texting. I don't NEED a smart phone. I also don't want one. I have internet at home and at work and my dedicated gaming handheld does games a heck of a lot better than any games on iOS. Once again, this idea that I MUST have a merged device rears its ugly head. WHY do I have to have a merged device that is...
Good point on the multiplayer possibilities of handhelds. Are you gonna do multiplayer on a phone? It would have to be restricted to your carrier.
F-Zero and Fire Emblem? Sweet.
The problem is clearly that people have this crazy idea in their head that "merging devices" is the only solution that makes sense. In the future, maybe. The Xperia Play sure as hell isn't it. Battery technology alone is the great limitation of the "device merger" camp. You don't have enough to run games and make sure you're phone has enough juice to make a call. And speaking of that call, what happens mid game when you get one?
If my fu...
The game industry has never been in a worse state since casual gaming came along. Portables have felt it the worst because everyone is treating handhelds that aren't phones as if they are some sort of cancer on the world that needs to be excised. They tout how "awesome" iOS games are, yet to the core gamer they are very very superficial games that do not provide the experiences of gaming dedicated handhelds. Even if you don't play handhelds, a core gamer should be support...
Perhaps I am. The point I'm trying to make is would you (or lots of gamers) be satisfied if iOS games were the ONLY handheld gaming experiences available? I wouldn't be. I want my games to be portable, but not portable because I only have a few minutes to play. I need mine portable because I only have one TV in my house and I can't play games while my wife watches TV. I need to choose between portable gaming or NO gaming. You may be surprised how many people that describes. ...
HECKS YES!!!! Time to do some post play surveys I have been putting off!
And that does suck for Europeans. I've always disliked the two region's Nintendo headquarters operating differently. Sometimes Europe gets games early, sometimes we do. The buck passed to NA on this one and I feel bad for our friends across the pond.
I would agree with you except for the control issue. No one (not even Xperia Play) sports a mobile experience with decent controls. Its superficial gaming.
Didn't they say their US goal was 4 million units? 3.5 so far looks like they will hit it. Of course, the price drop is a big factor in that, but clearly the goal is that more units means more software sales. Everybody knows that software is where the real money is made in the game industry (i.e. PS3/Vita sold at a loss too)