LO1: Explain how the digital revolution has influeneced your ideas for a design (report)

 My inspiration for my design is handheld consoles and how they evolved and how my design is the future of handheld gaming.

The first ever handhold console to be sold was the Milton Bradley Microvision it was released in 1979 and the only 11 games were available on it, but this console revolutionised gaming as after this console came out many more handheld consoles came out and most notable the Nintendo Gameboy released in 1989 this console had over 1,200 games that had been released for it which is a massive jump from the Microvisions measly 11 games. After Nintendo’s success with the Gameboy other

companies such as Atari and Sega also joined in and started making handheld consoles these include the Atari lynx(1989), Sega game gear(1990) and the Sega nomad(1995). The Atari lynx was considered a commercial failure and the main reason was that Atari were not listening to their customers and what they want whereas the Sega game gear was not considered a commercial fail but a success but the sale were nowhere close to Nintendo’s sales with the Gameboy but the Sega nomad was a giant commercial failure as no games were ever released for it and the reason was it battery consumption was incredibly fast this console was advertised as a technical marvel for the gaming

industry but failed do to become one. After the massive success of the Gameboy Nintendo decided to create a new and more refined version of their console the Gameboy Advanced released in 2001 this console hand 2 other versions of the console which include Gameboy Advanced SP and the Gameboy Advanced Micro and these variants were also incredibly successful just like the first Gameboy. The Gameboy advanced family was considered incredibly successful even though it had a short life after the release of the Nintendo DS.

The Nintendo DS was released in 2004 it was getting refreshed models of the consoles up until 2015 these refreshed models would upgrade the hardware in the consoles making them more powerful and capable to play more intensive videos games the most powerful of these models was called the Nintendo New 3DS XL. After the discontinuation of the 3DS, Nintendo created another handheld console

more powerful than any other and was able to play on TV this was the Nintendo Switch released in 2017. The Switch has multiple models for example the original switch, The Nintendo Switch lite and the newly released Nintendo Switch Oled edition.

As you can see Nintendo's Handheld gaming systems is the inspiration for my design and the key difference between mine and Nintendo is that it will also be a gaming computer which will be capable of playing most triple A titles at 60 FPS this will be because the APU in the console will have CPU power equivalent to the Intel i7 and graphics capabilities of a Nvidia Gtx 1660 but will be highly energy efficient making it viable for handheld gaming this console will also run windows 11 so you can use it as a computer. The technological convergence of handheld gaming is what influenced me to come up with my own design that is more powerful and efficient making it possible to use as a computer the console will have a magnetic latch which you can connect a proprietary keyboard allowing you to type faster which is similar to how Apple allow you to use a physical keyboard on an iPad.