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Soundwave on 23 March 2010

3DS = DS2

It's the next generation DS. The reports from GDC indicated it would be out this year and was comparable to a GameCube in horsepower, and those reports now have much more credibility since the release date matches up with what Nintendo officially stated last night.

Embrace the future. Expecting Nintendo to ride one platform for 7 or 8 years without a real upgrade was stupid to begin with, that's just begging for Apple and other competitors to continue to chip away. 



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A Bad Clown on 23 March 2010

Wait

3DS=3DO

Dammit it was a typo, Nintendo was announcing they're putting 3DO games on the Virtual Console!



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theprof00 on 23 March 2010
ElRhodeo said:

theprof00 said:

Is it a continuance of the DS series or a replacement. They said it is a successor, right? That doesn't mean it's a standalone.

I mean, I don't think we will be tracking it seperately from the DS either, which would mean that it's still just a DS, right?

I have no clue what you're trying to say. A successor is not a "standalone"? PS PS2 PS3? Huh?
The second sentence makes no sense either... if it's a new system, it will be tracked separately. Is it a new system? That's up to Nintendo, not VGChartz.

I mean.. you know what "new system" means. New technology. CPU, GPU, everything. Comes along every 5 years or so. Games that weren't possible on the previous system.
DS, DS lite and DSi were the same, save for some additional gimmicks on the DSi (that were mostly unrelated to the actual gaming). From what we've heard, 3DS will Nintendo's next generation. 

 

I didn't say a successor is not a standalone. I said it doesn't MEAN it is a standalone.

lerntoread

In teh context of the words, a replacement takes up the end of something else. A successor doesn't necessarily mean that, it's just the one that comes next.

And I know you think you are being SMRT, but the DSi is capable of playing games that the DS can't play (not possible on previous system). However, it is not a successor. It is just one in the family. PERIOD.

 

@Xen

I think the difference is if the 3DS plays 3d DS games. The GBA played it's own games that were incompatible on a fundamental level, not just graphically. I'm thinking more along the lines of a DSi than the GBA.



GuyDuke on 23 March 2010

You do know that it was written "Tentative name" so it might not be the real name actually.



leo-j on 23 March 2010

You guys need to realize it says 3DS

"3 DIMENSIONAL SCREEN"

Nintendo when releasing a true nexgen system have never re used the name

NES, 64, GC, WII

GB, DS



 

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Soundwave on 23 March 2010
theprof00 said:
ElRhodeo said:

theprof00 said:

Is it a continuance of the DS series or a replacement. They said it is a successor, right? That doesn't mean it's a standalone.

I mean, I don't think we will be tracking it seperately from the DS either, which would mean that it's still just a DS, right?

I have no clue what you're trying to say. A successor is not a "standalone"? PS PS2 PS3? Huh?
The second sentence makes no sense either... if it's a new system, it will be tracked separately. Is it a new system? That's up to Nintendo, not VGChartz.

I mean.. you know what "new system" means. New technology. CPU, GPU, everything. Comes along every 5 years or so. Games that weren't possible on the previous system.
DS, DS lite and DSi were the same, save for some additional gimmicks on the DSi (that were mostly unrelated to the actual gaming). From what we've heard, 3DS will Nintendo's next generation. 

 

I didn't say a successor is not a standalone. I said it doesn't MEAN it is a standalone.

lerntoread

In teh context of the words, a replacement takes up the end of something else. A successor doesn't necessarily mean that, it's just the one that comes next.

And I know you think you are being SMRT, but the DSi is capable of playing games that the DS can't play (not possible on previous system). However, it is not a successor. It is just one in the family. PERIOD.

 

@Xen

I think the difference is if the 3DS plays 3d DS games. The GBA played it's own games that were incompatible on a fundamental level, not just graphically. I'm thinking more along the lines of a DSi than the GBA.

 

Dude ... accept it already. 

It's the next-generation DS.

Of course it has "DS" in the title ... Nintendo would be stupid to ditch the DS name after all the brand recoginition they have built with it -- you are talking about the best selling game platform in the history of video games (soon to eclipse the PS2). 

This is like thinking the Playstation 2 is just a redesigned PSOne because it has "Playstation" in the title and was backwards compatible. 

Devs have kits already and they're saying it's comparable to the GameCube in horsepower. This is not another DSi. That's the DSi XL, if you want to spend $190 on that (lol), go right ahead. 



theprof00 on 23 March 2010
guiduc said:
You do know that it was written "Tentative name" so it might not be the real name actually.

yeah i know, but then why call it 3ds.....

hmm unless it's 3dScreen.

I'd thught they were just doing a mishmash of 3d and ds. Well, I thought I remember hearing that it was going to have 2 screens (the ds2, not the 3ds), so, if the ds2 is infact the 3ds, then it is a mishmash.



Euphoria14 on 23 March 2010

It's the Nintendo 3 Dual Screen. O_o

 

Edit - Just read leo-j's post.

I think it would be the 3 Dimensional Screens.



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theprof00 on 23 March 2010
Soundwave said:

 

Dude ... accept it already. 

It's the next-generation DS.

Of course it has "DS" in the title ... Nintendo would be stupid to ditch the DS name after all the brand recoginition they have built with it -- you are talking about the best selling game platform in the history of video games (soon to eclipse the PS2). 

This is like thinking the Playstation 2 is just a redesigned PSOne because it has "Playstation" in the title and was backwards compatible. 

Devs have kits already and they're saying it's comparable to the GameCube in horsepower. This is not another DSi. That's the DSi XL, if you want to spend $190 on that (lol), go right ahead. 

lol!!! accept it?

I ONLY own the BEST consoles, and if you look, I own a DS. I'm NOT going to ACCEPT anything, because there is no argument I'm putting up against it. I'm not saying that it isn't a true successor, I'm saying that, through what's been announced, it has been called the DS2 or anything like that. Successor doesn't mean "next console", it just means next thing in line to carry the torch or whatever. Is it a brand successor, or platform successor.

It's a bit vague, honestly.

Yes, but is this the DS2 or the 3DS, that's what I want to know.



theprof00 on 23 March 2010
Euphoria14 said:

It's the Nintendo 3 Dual Screen. O_o

 

Edit - Just read leo-j's post.

I think it would be the 3 Dimensional Screens.

but it still has two screens right?