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Originally Posted by marioman  the DS with....err......I can't think of any flaws with the original DS. Perhaps it is an exception. |
Nah, the DS proves the point too, because early adopters got stuck with the Phat model and then they released the Lite, the DSi, and the DSiXL.
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Originally Posted by marioman Yeah, I also think that the current Nintendo systems look like things from Apple. In fact I think that both Nintendo and Apple products are made by the same contractor: Foxconn. Isn't that a coincidence? |
Foxconn is one of the companies that builds the components. There are other companies as well. And they obviously don't do any of the design work. Nintendo stuff is starting to look like Apple stuff for one very simple reason: they're taking design cues from Apple.
The tablet market is exploding right now thanks to the original iPad (it's not the best tablet on the market, but it is the one that spurred renewed market interest in the device). Nintendo deliberately styled this new peripheral after tablets because it's a big market right now.
The ironic thing about this is that tablets are huge because of their easy connectivity and business-/online-life integration (e.g. with phones, PCs, established productivity apps, etc.). That's why you'll see this kind of stuff emphasized in MS pumping it's Live services and Sony's Vita, the latter of which is exciting precisely because it's starting to do this stuff well in the video game world for the first time. This is something Nintendo has left out entirely, crossing their fingers that it'll sell just because it looks like a toy iPad.