Emy-chan wrote:
EDIT: Whats voice recognition for? Think about it. DS has wireless communication capabilities right? Talking to people across the net? Just take your DS to the computer, slam in Paintchat cartridge and away you go, talking and doodling with friends.
But that's not a very practical use, nor is it efficient. You would have to use both a computer AND the DS itself to accomplish it in that way (unless they are below a set amount of feet away, 30 was the only given number unless other software was bought). Chatting could more easily be done by just getting on the internet and using a messenger, at least moreso than the one that is provided by the DS. Not to mention that the communication is most likely going to be local, which cuts down the usefulness a lot (unless they're friends from school or in nearby cities). The only thing that would seem to be easier on the DS is drawing on Picto Chat (if that's the same thing as you're thinking). The main use of voice recognition given by Nintendo themselves is to "tell the game where you want it to go" which (as I said before) is more easily done manually. Hopefully they'll come out with some more major uses for this. Don't get me wrong, I would be most likely to get a DS, probably based on selling price and game selection. But I tend to go into great depths to find the usefulness of things that everyone can't seem to stop talking about. Everything else sounds fine (well... except I can't get over the overall design and the inclusion of enough features to make it into an N-Gage, but one that SUCCEEDS... [too many features isn't always a good thing].), but the voice recognition just seems to be something that everyone thinks is "awesome" or "cool", but is something that might not go to good use. While, when even past E3, Nintendo is still trying to do its best to make the DS a surprise, I can't really think otherwise until some new news is released by Nintendo themselves. While this may sound like an "anti-Nintendo" or "Sony Fanboy" post, no one has mentioned the PSP in detail yet, and I'm too lazy to look it up in great detail, so I can't really go into the flaws I see there... All I need is a random Sony Fanboy with too much to say... hehehe
"Random Thought I Had" - While these systems are revolutionary for the hand-held community, just how much can we really improve once hand-helds become mini versions of our televisions? I know there's years to go until this happens, what can we do once we just about reach perfection? Just something to ponder, if you haven't already.
This would be the end of the speculations of the horribly monotonous one, please resume.
EDIT: The DS is supposed to be around $150 and the PSP, about $299.