targren said:
Yes, it deserves it. Whether or not it's a "good" gimmick is subjective. Plenty of people think it's BS meant to try to squeeze more money out of people who have to buy everything nintendo puts out. Anyone who still has a functioning DS will have to make an effort to justify the new one. And the library is pathetic. Rebuying old Nintendo 64 games in headache-inducing pseduo-3D doesn't make for a compelling value calculation. Nintendo's first party titles aren't as good as they used to be, and are far too tied up in gimmicks that they forget to actually make them good.
So no. The 3DS detractors are completely warranted in their opinions, and your claims that it embraced some BS "3D revolution" is BS marketroid speak. It's overpriced, underfeatured, and underperforming.
Pretty much this. On top of that, there's only one game I'd even consider getting for the 3DS, Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright (if only cause it would potentially BE a PW game), and it already sounds like we're not getting it. Hell, Capcom's screwing us Ace Attorney fans over by not releasing Miles Edgeworth 2, and somehow think missing a whole chapter and moving on won't hurt the experience or the fans.
But that aisde, I've become so disenchanted with the gaming industry today, they have to pull out something truly interesting before I even start to give a damn. I thought the DSi was a poor excuse of an investment (why did we need cameras in them?) and I think the 3DS is, too.. so long as you already HAVE a DS. If you
don't have a DS, then I say it's probably fine so you can play any of the decent DS titles (Ace Attorney, Mario & Luigi, etc).
To me, though, I'll never see the 3DS as anything more than a merging of the Virtual Boy & and DS. The differences being that the Virtual Boy actually had games I liked, didn't require me to swivel around shooting at shit only visible on the screen, and was at least trying to be something new. Pity ol' Nintendo freaked out cause the N64 wasn't ready and pushed the Virtual Boy out before IT was ready. Poor Gunpei.
BehattedWanderer said:
Like the Mother compilation, should it ever happen.
Sorry, but don't plan on it. Nintendo's already said multiple times they have no interest in doing anything with the series. They wouldn't give us the Mother 1+2 compilation (despite both already being translated), and ignored everything we did to try and get Mother 3 released. Oh well, always Tomato & his team's awesome translation.