The Nintendo 3DS has been struggling for some months now, and analysts are spelling doom for the handheld once the iPhone 5 comes out. But is the situation really that bad?
Cultured Vultures: Put on your freshest dungarees and chow down on the ripest mushroom as we reel off the best Mario games ever made to celebrate Mar10 Day.
My top 3 are Mario 3, Mario World and Mario 64. Mario Odyssey is also excellent, and I enjoyed Sunshine but didn't care for the Galaxy series.
BLG writes, "There are many fantastic and iconic weapons in game history, but some are significantly more memorable than others. When we think of iconic game weapons, these are the top 20 that come to mind."
You forgot one and it's a doozy. The weapon is kindness in undertale. :) defeats countless enemies.
Polygon: "To get back to the way Ocarina made us feel, it was necessary to reject almost everything about it."
The feeling this game gave me the first time i had my hands on it is indescribable.. i still get the chill from that day..
botw is like a spin off of the series.. it’s fun but with many flaws and the most important which is Zelda formula isn’t there..
I can't even remember how many times I played through OoT, I finished that game, and collected everything so many times.
I generally agree with the author here. However, if I had to point out a single game as the 'anti-Breath of the Wild,' that would be Majora's Mask. Pretty much everything in that game is interconnected, relies on something that the player must have done previously, is timed, and can be considered a puzzle in itself.
but still considered the best of the seties.
i would have liked botw to be more like ocarina.
25 years from today whatever Zelda is out people would too be looking fondly at Breath of the Wild.
Ah the more simple times of the 2020s.
Of course it won't, there are markets for phones and markets for handheld gaming so I'm not sure why it would damage it.
Depends how much is invested (cost) in the 3DS. If it did cost a lot, like the consoles this generation, the casual have to be brought on board to make it a success (In Nintendo profit eyes). The casual do not care for the 3DS. All they are interested is cheap mobile games. It is sort of how the mobile gaming has moved on
@Alpha agree kill is the wrong word but damage is about right
A little note on comparing one to another is the iphone 5 hasn't been unveiled yet. So we cannot know.
Not kill, but certainly damage. Nintendo still has killer apps for those casual phone users like Nintendogs but overall, that market is going to be hard for them to tap into.
Lucky for Nintendo, their core games seem to interest a wider variety of gamers and they still have a gigantic userbase, myself included
it's just competition but no one will die. The picture says it all...Mario is about to make apple pie...lol. The thing is consumers always go away then come back once they find out the grass wasn't greener with the competition. Nintendo made the best move at $169. It will work.
Haven't we gone through this already? I'm going to make it short and list 3 things why a phone is not going to kill a handheld console.
- Lack of precise controls.
- Lack of software support for games that can actually compete with 3DS and Vita games.
- The OS of a phone eats so much "power", that phones won't be on par even graphics-wise with handhelds anytime soon.