jarrod said:
And if we're going to get in the muddy "aimed at children" argument... uh.. weren't all Game Boys also essentially aimed at children for the most part?
If theres anything in this discussion that is crystal clear then it is that Sega Pico is a system thats aimed towards young kids. In Japan it even had "kids" in its name, so that argument is not muddy at all
Gameboy was not aimed mainly for children no, but most players of it (atleast back then) might have been kids. Its like the same "cliche" (or what i shall say) that Wii is for kids, but its aimed to everyone, both young and old. Nintendo never marketed these systems specificly aimed to kids.
jarrod said:
Pico had an optional touch pad interface too iirc... maybe that's where Nintendo got the idea?
Hehe, who knows. I havnt tried the Pico touch pad (or Pico itself for that matter) so i have no idea how well it works, but if its anything close to the DS one it must have been great
jarrod said:
Being honest, I don't see much point? When looking at platforms that took a PS3 comparable tumble... well, one offs like Mega CD, 32X or Virtual Boy don't seem really appropriate due to their far lower bar for expectations. What you should compare are main line core legacy platforms, like GBA, N64 or Saturn.
I have written alot of arguments, if you havnt seen them you havnt read my posts. As said, i never said that VB is the successor to GB. Even if its not a direct successor it can still fail hard compared to a previous product in the same genre, and in this case, even from the same company. Nintendo made Famicom/NES, GB and SNES which were all really popular, then they make a system, Virtual Boy, that unfortunately fails. Sony made PSX and PS2 which were (PS2 still are) popular as well, then they make a system, PS3, which is looking to be a failure (altho i think VB is a bigger failure). Do you see the simularity on my comparison here? Also, i never compared the GB and VB as the same as PS2 and PS3. I've stated that earlier.
My points still stands, in my opinion the VB is a system of it's own on the same line as every other "normal" systems, its not a system that was aimed specificly to i.e kids like Sega Pico was. I also think its too early to label the PS3 as histories biggest failure eventho things arent looking so good right now. Can it be the biggest failure in history? It depends on what you put in failure, smallest amount of consoles sold, most money loss, most marked share loss etc. etc. (these things were discussed earlier).
Anyway, to be honest i dont know why we are discussing this. In the first place all i said was that VB was a failure compared to GB, and that i concider it a bigger failure than the PS3 since i think its too early to say PS3's final outcome. After this a long discussion starts. Now i feel its just a discussion about disproving eachother points because we dont agree. If we dont agree, that is fine of course, but this discussion isnt really going anywhere, which gets me abit "exhausted/tired" or what i shall say so i have to end it from my side. If people want to agree or disagree, no problem, but now i've said what i mean and i dont think i have anything more to say in this case.