But if someone doesn’t say “uh-huh” while you’re talking to them, you wouldn’t consider them rude.
I found this one funny despite the fact he more or less thumbed up the game.
Nintendo 3DS Fails To Impress
I don’t think he’s mocking it jokingly either. Seems to actually hate it (or at least he’s not impressed with anything the launch titles have to offer).
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Oh those cheeky bastards. They’ve tweaked their layout so that if you’ve blocked those awful video frame images, you can’t even play the video.
This doesn’t surprise me. I guess what does surprise me is that more people don’t hate the 3DS. Now I confess I don’t own one and won’t be buying it, but the whole thing seems like a stupid gimmick to get you to rebuy all things Nintendo portable. The other technical changes, like the analogue control, are nice things that some people have probably wanted all along, but it doesn’t seem like enough to get the masses excited enough to rebuy almost the same thing in this economy.
Then again, I also hate the 3D revolution, so I was turned off this product right from the start.
He hates the Wii as well. Not that he’s wrong to hate the Wii. Or motion controllers.
I haven’t really been following the 3DS news closely, but it seemed pretty underwhelming to me. And expensive. So +1 on not being surprised at all.
Makes you wonder if Sony might actually have a chance of competing with the 3DS this time.
For fuck’s sake, the 3DS is not a DS with a 3D gimmick. It’s vastly more powerful than the DS and the 3D has absolutely zero to do with why I and many, many others bought it. I don’t blame anyone for playing wait-and-see with the 3DS but I really don’t understand where the “It’s just a DS with a 3D gimmick” meme has come from. Every single game on it is very obviously beyond the capabilities of a DS.
I definitely don’t think the 3DS is just a DS with 3D capabilities, I know the machine is more powerful, has the analog stick, the cameras, etc., but I guess the question then becomes is the increased power worth a new system? Is that increased power worth $250? Again I don’t know, but it seems like Nintendo is charging a hefty premium for the 3D portion of of the DS.
My gut reaction to the 3DS was that the machine was an incremental upgrade that they tacked 3D on to and then jacked up the price and I obviously could be mistaken. Of course my gut reaction doesn’t matter since I wasn’t going to buy one anyway.
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Even if it was just a ds with a 3d gimmick, that’s a pretty badass “gimmick”.
“George Jetson’s car is just a car with a fly to work then fold up into a briefcase gimmick.”
It usually has been in the past.
Is that increased power worth $250?
Does it matter? Some people early adopt, others buy when the price drops. If the GB, GBC, GBA, and various iterations of the DS have proven anything, it’s that a handheld will sell to a wide variety of people, all with their own ideas of when the price is right.
Again I don’t know, but it seems like Nintendo is charging a hefty premium for the 3D portion of of the DS.
The system has substantially more power than the DS, better screens, Wi-Fi, the StreetPass/SpotPass features, double-side cameras, accelerometer…there’s a lot of stuff in the thing even with the 3D aside. $250 is a pretty hefty price, I agree, but it’s not like all it does is 3D and slightly better graphics. The thing I’ve used the most has actually been the StreetPass minigame stuff, because that feature has turned out to be possibly the most compelling aspect of the system so far.
My gut reaction to the 3DS was that the machine was an incremental upgrade that they tacked 3D on to and then jacked up the price and I obviously could be mistaken. Of course my gut reaction doesn’t matter since I wasn’t going to buy one anyway.
From an N64-level machine to one that can run a pretty full-featured online-capable version of Super Street Fighter IV is more than an incremental upgrade in my book. Again, whether it’s worth $250 to someone is entirely subjective, but people are putting way too much emphasis on the 3D aspect and not on the other things the system does. Granted, this is in large part due to how much emphasis Nintendo itself has put on the 3D in its marketing and promotional campaign over the last year.
For what it’s worth, I think Nintendo could have named the product better if they didn’t want people to get this impression. Because I honestly thought the 3DS was just a DS with 3D, so I’ve avoided looking at anything about it since I hate 3D stuff. Your post has literally enlightened me to look into it further.
“Vastly more powerful” than the DS still means vastly less powerful than a current iPod touch, iPad 2, or the upcoming PSP 2. Mobile technology has advanced a lot since the DS came out, and Nintendo did not even attempt to keep up. I tried a demo unit at the store, the 3D effect works nicely but does not compensate for the primitive low-resolution graphics – just what you’d expect from the technical specifications. The 3DS is only a significant upgrade if you’re already a heavy DS user and can’t live without Nintendo exclusives. From an outside perspective it’s underpowered and overpriced, with a weak launch lineup to boot.
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DS games tend to be way more fun, at least to me, than pretty much any game I’ve had on any of my touchscreen devices… So, while the computational power is much less, it really doesn’t matter.
Oh no, what will Nintendo do when confined to the audience that bought the hundred and thirty million DSes they’ve already sold in the past?
Obviously a mistake, given how the most powerful system has repeatedly dominated the handheld and console markets for generations. Except that has actually never happened.
I tried a demo unit at the store, the 3D effect works nicely but does not compensate for the primitive low-resolution graphics – just what you’d expect from the technical specifications. The 3DS is only a significant upgrade if you’re already a heavy DS user and can’t live without Nintendo exclusives. From an outside perspective it’s underpowered and overpriced, with a weak launch lineup to boot.
Weak launch lineup for certain, but power is meaningless in the competition for #1. Jesus, the DS and Wii repeatedly proved this against the PSP and PS3, and people still spout this nonsense like it matters.
Isn’t there a I hate/love Nintendo thread somewhere around here already?
back to Zero Punctuation.
I only just realised that Yahtzee lives here in Brisbane and does a bi-weekly video game trivia night at a local pub. I need to check that out.
