"Yesterday we had the privilege of being among select members of the press who had the opportunity to check out the Nintendo 3DS for the first time since E3. Nintendo’s Reggie Fil-Aime took the stage and finally gave us all the information we needed to know before the systems launch, including it’s price point. Our very own Francois Chang (who also happens to be our in-house Nintendo fanboy) decided to share his initial thoughts after trying out a bunch of the titles that were on hand. Hit the jump to watch the video and find out what he took away from his play time with Nintendo’s latest handheld."
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."
The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.
i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.
nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.
people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly
mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.
zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.
nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.
its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.
but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.
Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
I'm a bit skeptical about the AR stuff, just because I don't think it worked so hot for the PSP games that supports it. Although, it would be cool if it actually works and is fun, so I guess we'll see what happens.
When I went to see Toy Story in 3D the Disney logo came up and was all WOOOOSH and went into 3D. Then a little girl in the audience was all "IT'S IN MY FACE!"
That moment made me kind of glad the childlike wonder of 3D still exists, but sad at the same time because kids today are gonna be nuts over 3D and it's gonna overpower everything for years to come.
Also it was freakin' hilarious.
I Can't believe I missed out on this event but it's all good I had other things going on so it's cool. Dualshockers once again coming with the heat for the industry god bless you guys and thanks
Nintendo will capitalize on the innovation of 3D and how popular it has gotten. Sony will have a big catch up game to play up against the new 3DS.
This is just the first step to Nintendo's upcoming face melting technology. In all seriousness though, it's hard to believe this thing is coming out soon. Seems like it was just announced a few weeks ago.