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  1. Newsgroups: rec.games.video
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnewsm!cbnewsl!conty
  3. From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei)
  4. Subject: Re: Next generation handhelds
  5. Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
  6. Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 15:36:22 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <1992Dec30.153622.14414@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
  8. References: <hankin.725726786@osf>
  9. Keywords: gameboy gamegear lynx
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  11.  
  12. In article <hankin.725726786@osf>, hankin@sauron.osf.org (Scott Hankin) writes:
  13. >     I strikes me that new technology usually has a very brief lifetime, but
  14. >     that it doesn't seem to hold in the video game world.
  15.  
  16. That's because they're NOT new technology.  They're
  17. just cheap applications of existing technology.
  18.  
  19. The next generation of hand-held computing is not videogames.
  20. It's things like the Newton and similar products.
  21.  
  22. Besides, most of the impetus nowadays seems to be towards
  23. console-based systems.  There's not much of a demand for
  24. improving the hardware platforms.
  25.  
  26. >     The Lynx and Gameboy have also been around for years,
  27.  
  28. Define "years".  Two, two-and-a-half at most.
  29.  
  30. -- 
  31.                 E n r i q u e  C o n t y
  32.                    Master of Science!
  33.                   jester@ihlpm.att.com
  34.             Disclaimer: You're not dealing with AT&T
  35.