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How a Stolen Idea Saved Nintendo

How a Stolen Idea Saved Nintendo

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  1. THIS VIDEO IS A MASTERPIECE! I usually like to listen to you when Im driving (please dont text&drive! thats why Im listening only!) but as I listened to this I understood I am missing a video which was very much thought of and had high level editing, so I stopped listening and watched it as home instead and I was right! Great job! Thanks!!

  2. Fantastic Video! This must of taken forever and you sank a lot of money on it.

    You had to have known that the issue was the ribbon cable, I know very little about circuitry most I've picked up from watching channels like yourself. But I could understand you going to Vince because he could do the tiny work.

  3. Wait.. u can take a PSP and connect it to a TV with a composite cable no problem at all. In any case the idea here was building a a console AROUND that functionality and market the console as a hybrid device. And that idea was Nintendo's alone, no other big player had done it before even tho the PSP could do precisely the same thing… really no need to find exotic cases here: Sony had already created portable consoles that could be played on a tv (including vita that has the port but the function was deactivated at the last moment in order to sell psTVs), that is not the point.

  4. The problem with how the older handheld to TV solutions are that you need a lot of wires just to put it on a TV. You have to have one for power. You have to have one for video. And you have to use the handheld itself as demonstrated in the video. And all of these wires have to be long enough to reach someone sitting at a couch. Nintendo also tried something like this with the Wii U with the Game Pad where you can go back and forth between the TV and the Game Pad. The idea behind this was that if someone wanted to watch TV, you didn't have to turn off your game. It's something companies are still trying to figure out. Just look at the Play Station Portal. The problem with the Wii U was that you had to be within a certain range from the console if you were playing on the Game Pad. You basically needed to be in the same room or be in the room next to where the Wii U is at. But then a wonderful invention came to be: USB Type C. With it, it had enough bandwidth to carry over a video signal, USB signals, and up to 100 watts of power in a small, compact port. Since USB Type C wasn't used as a typical standard quite like how it is today, Nintendo had to make a dock so that you can carry over HDMI, USB Type A, and power to the console. That, and it looks much nicer than any other solution any other company has attempted before. While the idea is decades old, the execution hasn't been elegant until 2017.

  5. Why don't you just draw a new ribbon cable and let it produce by JLC PCB or so? It should be relatively easy and cheap to do this. I hope you are not going to throw away the two which don't work, because it should not be very difficult to repair them

  6. Theres an even older "nintendo" switch. In the early 90s an NES handheld called the express was developed by an american manufacturer. The handheld, called the express, was never released though. The express was able to play NES cartridges and connect to your TV, making it the first "nintendo" switch.

    Gaming historian has a video about it

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