Author Topic: To add or not to add three more VTech "consoles"?  (Read 1286 times)

jjfly

To add or not to add three more VTech "consoles"?
« on: June 14, 2020, 08:12:46 pm »
As my quest to add all V.Smile games and consoles that quick google or Wikipedia search could procure comes to a close, it's came to my attention there is still couple of V.Tech products that are not listed on this site. At least with one of these it's place on this site is a bit questionable matter, so I thought it's better to ask first if these should be added and if so under which categories.

1. VTech V.Baby https://www.vtechkids.com/assets/data/products/%7BF0202E29-A1E9-44FF-BDEF-C422B6F2EECC%7D/manuals/80-107100-V.Baby%20Infant%20Development%20System.pdf
Not to be confused with "VTech V.Smile Baby" https://vgcollect.com/item/180900
Seems to be follow up system to previously mentioned and uses same colored orange carts to VTech V.Motion (could they have be any more confusing).
I could only find four games to this system from which three of them were releases on their older consoles as well. 
I would probably just add these to V.Smile category and if V.Smile Baby (not inter-compatible with other V.Smile product for some dumb reason) will ever be separated to it's own category, move this with it.

2. VTech V.Reader https://www.vtechkids.com/brands/brand_view/vreader
This is the product I mostly think might be better off from this site as it is i an e-reader instead of dedicated gaming platform.
On other hand these e-books seem to have some mini games on them.
I did quick google search in case we add this and found at least 25 e-books/games/software for this platform.

3. VTech InnoTab (1-3) https://www.vtechkids.com/brands/brand_page/innotab_family
This is probably follow up to V.Reader but instead of just being e-reader this is a fully functional tablet.
As this is current gen product software shop is still running so no need to hunt down games one by one: https://www.vtechkids.com/product/advanced_search/keyword:innotabsoftware
As for category, this console clearly doesn't have much common with V.Smile family of consoles instead sharing games with VTech MobiGo platform we already have in database: https://vgcollect.com/browse/mobigo
Should we merge these platforms to one big mess as we did with V.Smile (including: V.Smile, V.Smile: V.Motion, V.Smile: Pocket, V.Smile: Cyber Pocket, V.Smile Baby and V.Flash) or make new category for this console?

tripredacus

Re: To add or not to add three more VTech "consoles"?
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2020, 09:26:08 am »
It is fine, but you need to make sure you are following the style guide. You are using Edition formatting for colors, where colors are descriptors. The other terms used in titles like "Second Generation" are only valid if this text is present on the box. And again, that text is being used as an Edition instead of a descriptor.