Email: 3DS and Wii

Hey sean! what’s up? I know you have lots of mails about this E3 and you must be sick of them.

I0ll be short. In a conversation about  E3 many were saying that the 3DS could disrupt the Wii making Nintendo to ditch the Wii and focus only on the 3DS. I hope not.  I think the wii just scratched the surface for home consoles and I won’t like them to stop making them. What do you think? do you think that’s possible? a good or bad idea?

Anyway, thanks for your attention.

I don’t think it is possible for any handheld to disrupt the Wii. The Wii is performing new jobs that home consoles have been unable to do. Handheld gaming will never, ever be able to perform motion control gameplay. There will never be a ‘handheld’ version of Wii Sports. (Can you imagine that? You’re waiting to get on the bus and the guy next to you is playing ‘wii baseball’ in the public.) Handheld multiplayer gaming is somewhat like PC multiplayer gaming where everyone is at their own screen and device, isolated but near one another. With the Wii, everyone is looking at each other’s face and are not isolated.

While people may not believe it, in a couple of decades we will be able to see handhelds have PS3 type hardware. Hell, you are about to play Ocarina of Time on a handheld. I bet you didn’t imagine that back a decade or so ago.

But the jobs the Wii performs is ‘disruption proof’ from handhelds. One day, you will be able to play Killzone 3 from a handheld. But you will never be able to play Wii Sports Resort from a handheld.