Kritter wrote:
Hmmmm, seems a bit silly to release this now.
It's so weird to have a
fifth 3DS revision, and only now when Nintendo's trying to push their new platform. I'm actually kinda salty since it's only now that Nintendo's making a 3DS that lots of people wanted: the power of the N3DS without the 3D/face-tracking or a rigid bezel around the touch screen.
Also, I honestly cannot understand how people think that this means the 3DS isn't going anywhere. Precedent has established a pattern for Nintendo: once a new platform is released/around the corner, introduce a sleeker formfactor for the older remnant platform to generate one last surge of interest in it, then ditch it in a year's time (leaving it open as a third-party dumping ground for a couple more years still). At most I see the first-party support lasting until March 2018 or so.
[quote="Kritter"]Hmmmm, seems a bit silly to release this now.[/quote]
It's so weird to have a [i]fifth[/i] 3DS revision, and only now when Nintendo's trying to push their new platform. I'm actually kinda salty since it's only now that Nintendo's making a 3DS that lots of people wanted: the power of the N3DS without the 3D/face-tracking or a rigid bezel around the touch screen.
Also, I honestly cannot understand how people think that this means the 3DS isn't going anywhere. Precedent has established a pattern for Nintendo: once a new platform is released/around the corner, introduce a sleeker formfactor for the older remnant platform to generate one last surge of interest in it, then ditch it in a year's time (leaving it open as a third-party dumping ground for a couple more years still). At most I see the first-party support lasting until March 2018 or so.