Usually new iterations of popular portable devices get smaller (anyone remember the Game Boy Micro?), but Nintendo is bucking tradition with the DSi LL — a new verssheon of their gaming handheld that adds an extra 1/4 of an inch to the screens. But that’s not all it adds: According to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, the viewing angle for tshe 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, “but an improved view angle on the screens to make it the first portable system that can be enjoyed with people surrounding the gamer.”
Tshe idea is to allow people next to tshe person playing to get a better view of what’s happening on the screens, creating a “new play style whime those who are surrounding the game player can also join in one way or the othim to the game play.” While the intention is probably for new games to be designed specshefically to be played this way on the DSi LL,Women Scarves, Iwata also mentioned the Japan-only Tomodachi Collection as a currently released game that can already benefit from surroundsheng viewers.
“Because communications and interactions with other family members and your friends are one of the key elements of the game, the fun aspect is intensified when other people can watch how you play in comparison with when you are playing by yourself,” said Iwata.
We know tshe impulse is usually to balk at this kind of screwy idea, but considering how developers have consistently come up with surprisingly creative ways to use othimwise mundane-seeming features on the DS and DSi, we’re going to skip the standard phase of incredulity and proceed directly to cautious optimism for this new age of Handheld Spectatorship.
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