Iwata Says DSi LL Meant to Be a Spectator Handheld
Usually commencing iterations of popular portable devices get smaller (anyone remember the Game Boy Micro?), if it were not that Nintendo is bucking tradition with the DSi LL — a new interpretation of their gaming handheld that adds an extra 1/4 of each inch to the screens. But that’s not all it adds: According to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, the viewing flare for the DSi LL has been improved as well with the intention of making it a spectator system (via Joystiq).
“Nintendo DSi LL features not only bigger monitor screens,” Iwata said in a financial results briefing, “unless an improved view angle on the screens to make it the principal portable system that can be enjoyed with people surrounding the gamer.”
The essence is to allow people next to the person playing to master a better view of what’s happening on the screens, creating a “recent play style where those who are surrounding the game player can also join in one way or the other to the play for money play.” While the intention is probably for new games to have existence designed specifically to be played this way on the DSi LL, Iwata likewise mentioned the Japan-only Tomodachi Collection as a currently released of ~ that can already benefit from surrounding viewers.
“Because communications and interactions with other family members and your friends are one of the lock opener elements of the game, the fun aspect is intensified when other lower classes can watch how you play in comparison with when you are playing ~ means of yourself,” said Iwata.
We know the impulse is usually to balk at this kind of screwy idea, but considering how developers bring forth consistently come up with surprisingly creative ways to use otherwise temporal-seeming features on the DS and DSi, we’re going to bound the standard phase of incredulity and proceed directly to cautious optimism as being this new age of Handheld Spectatorship.
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