Nintendo 3DS

I played around with it a little at the store. It's a pretty amazing experience, and I'm pretty excited about all the possibilities this opens up.

You can't play for more than about 10 mins at a time though, since it strains your eyes pretty quick.

 

Might go pick one up tomorrow, if they're not just sold out everywhere (which I fully expect).

Need to check out the game line-up first, though!

 

Its gonna be hard to follow up the highest selling portable ever. Hell my ds lite is 6 years old and I still am only 50/50 about upgrading.

 

Stopped by Gamestop and tried it out. It's legit. Amazing.

 

Interesting to hear such positive things about the 3D. I'm going to have to check out a demo unit.

 

If by "done it again" you mean "delivered completely outdated technology with useless features," I agree. The second screen has no point and was useless in 99% of DS games, 3D again is useless and most people play with it turned off due to headaches/eyestrain, the battery life is terrible, and the system is barely more powerful than the original PSP. Not a lot to like here, the NGP is far superior.

 

you're right.

 

always a fan boy in threads like these.

 

I couldn't care less about Sony, I care about cutting edge technology. I can't even imagine what kind of douchetard gets so emotionally invested in a portable gaming system that they feel the need to defend an obvious turd from something way better and act like the brand name on the product makes a difference.

I don't even like Sony as a company. I did when the PS3 first came out because it was the most feature-rich system and did not region-lock its import games. But now that PS3s are starting to fail in moderate numbers, a lot of negatives in the design are starting to come out. Namely, locking each hard drive to a specific console so that you cannot put it into a new one without formatting, and putting DRM/copy protection on some game saves that makes it very difficult to transfer to a new console. Add that to their douchebaggery with the hacked firmware issue, and firmware updates in general being totally out of control, and they've squandered all the goodwill they had.

I have no loyalty as I am a PC gamer first and foremost, and all of the consoles are so pathetic compared to what a high-end PC offers that it seems silly to care about them. Handhelds, well, it's whoever has the best tech, and that obviously isn't Nintendo this round.

 

I don't see how you can accuse others of being emotionally invested when the person arguing the most and being the angriest here is you. Nobody said anything about the NGP until you showed up. How can you even compare them when the NGP isn't even out yet. Shouldn't you get some hands on time first before you sing it's praises? Remember, the first PSP was supposed to be great and it turned out to be a POS.

 

That's what SHE said! :grin:

 

well put.

as for his comment that all he cares about is cutting edge technology...great for you. But why go out of your way to knock something that simply works well (apparently) just because it's not "cutting technology"?

 

So you're arguing about people being fanboys while showing your own personal fanboyism for PC gaming?

 

We should just consider ourselves lucky that he didn't create some chart in MS Paint showing us the differences between 2D and 3D.

 

Have you ever even owned a PSP? It was/is far better than the DS. The only games I even bother with on the DS are jrpgs and old school side-scrollers because that's all it has the power and control capabilities to do well. The games that tried to replicate true analog control with a stylus were horrible (see: that terrible Mario 64 port or any of the laughable attempts at first person shooters) and the DS wasn't even really powerful enough for 3D anyways. The PSP at least did a good job of bringing a decent replication of modern console games to a portable system with AAA games like Gran Turismo, God of War, Ace Combat, etc. Any objective observer can agree that the DS is aimed at pokemon-breathing 10 year olds and its only other defenders are raging Nintendo fanboys who haven't yet realized that Nintendo only cares about "casual" gamers now.

 

Is something wrong with being a casual gamer? I mean, what hardcore gamer is going to be bringing their "A" game on a handheld device? Im guessing that if you want to make an impact in the gaming world, itll either be on PC or on a console...not on a handheld. The whole point of something like the 3DS is to casually play a game and enjoy 30-45 min of gaming to pass time. Nintendo is incredible in this department. They have a ton of fun, easy to play games...and thats the whole point. If I want intense action, no handheld is going to do the job because I require a 52 inch LED television with surround sound.

Knocking the 3DS is silly because it accomplishes EXACTLY what it sets out to accomplish.