I'm not sure about the rest of you, but I bought a 3DS, and I do genuinely enjoy the system. Granted a few more games would be a nice thing but hey, Nintendo have hardly been on top of their game recently.
So, to the point. I woke up today about to head out to Q-con when I got an email with some news in it. The most prominent of which was "Nintendo confirm 3DS XL for August". Why Nintendo? Why? The 3DS is trouncing the PS Vita, why make such a rookie mistake? During the days of the fat DS when sales started to dip, they released the LITE and the XL and the DSi, and this was enough to stimulate some interest while bringing their numbers back up into the money printing region. But 3DS is still in top form (sales wise) so releasing a reworked model only serves to annoy the general populace who bought the regular 3DS.
The biggest problem I have with the rework is this: 3DS games, are ugly.
Now giving credit where credit is due, the remastered Zelda, Star Fox and Resident evil games all look great, but for the most part the games on the system are fairly poor by today's standards. So making the screen larger is going to cause stretching, making the already poor games, look worse. And everyone can agree that while graphics aren't the most important part of a a game they do serve an important role. Would you enjoy Resident Evil if the textures where poor? What about Splinter Cell with terrible blacks? It's a terrible idea in my opinion and i'm interested in hearing yours, if you feel so inclined to share =]
So, to the point. I woke up today about to head out to Q-con when I got an email with some news in it. The most prominent of which was "Nintendo confirm 3DS XL for August". Why Nintendo? Why? The 3DS is trouncing the PS Vita, why make such a rookie mistake? During the days of the fat DS when sales started to dip, they released the LITE and the XL and the DSi, and this was enough to stimulate some interest while bringing their numbers back up into the money printing region. But 3DS is still in top form (sales wise) so releasing a reworked model only serves to annoy the general populace who bought the regular 3DS.
The biggest problem I have with the rework is this: 3DS games, are ugly.
Now giving credit where credit is due, the remastered Zelda, Star Fox and Resident evil games all look great, but for the most part the games on the system are fairly poor by today's standards. So making the screen larger is going to cause stretching, making the already poor games, look worse. And everyone can agree that while graphics aren't the most important part of a a game they do serve an important role. Would you enjoy Resident Evil if the textures where poor? What about Splinter Cell with terrible blacks? It's a terrible idea in my opinion and i'm interested in hearing yours, if you feel so inclined to share =]
