Why are so many people angry about the NEW Nintendo 3ds?? I think we can all agree that we all love the addition of new buttons (zr, zl, and the new analog nub), and the faster CPU is more than a welcome upgrade. Hopefully that analog nub turns out to feel more comfortable and natural than it looks. The 3D effect following your face finally fixes one of the main reasons people play with the 3d off, because the moment your eyes leave that sweet spot, it hurts your eyes. They moved the annoying volume slider which used to be located on the left beside the analog nub on the XL, which we would always bump and mess with the volume. Now that the volume slider is opposite of the 3d slider, it looks more natural and we won't be accidentally bumping it anymore.

The smaller New 3ds is customizable, which most people are ecstatic about, I can see kids especially loving that feature. Now if the battery ever poops out, you can just buy a new one and change it out very easily since the rear panel can now be removed. And did I mention the brilliantly colored ABXY buttons? We can only wonder why they never continued with that color scheme, it's instantly recognizable to the Nintendo brand. Also thanx to the new CPU, browsing the internet might actually be more fast and fluid, instead of a chore. And to top it off, downloads will be so much speedier.

So what are people so upset about? It all seems to come down to the exclusive NEW Nintendo 3ds games. These games are NOT backwards compatible with the original line of 3ds and 2ds. The first one revealed so far is Xenonlade Chronicles. I feel that all of this hate Nintendo is receiving is unwarranted. The only games that will be exclusive to the NEW Nintendo 3ds, are games that COULD NOT EXIST on the current 3DS hardware. They are only able to exist due to the upgraded CPU and upgraded controller options (zr, zl, right analog nub). Otherwise, Nintendo would release Xenoblade for the 40+ million 3ds systems already on the market, they would make more money and profit. However, this game just isn't feasible on current hardware.

Nintendo will still be making a large variety of games that will be playable on all 3ds systems. It will only be games that CANT be played on current hardware and that wouldn't be able to exist without the hardware update that will be exclusive. I have a total of six 3DS' in my household, and I'll be getting the upgraded system. I'm not angry about it, I understand Nintendo and see the benefits of getting the NEW 3ds hardware.

Now, if they'd only tie your games to your account instead of your hardware I could finally start moving to digital. And switching out your 3ds system wouldn't be such a chore...

Because they want a New Vita

People only dislike it (at least from what I can tell) because it has its own exclusives without being a new generation of hardware, meaning that early adopters of the 3DS are punished severely.

I don't think people really care about Xenoblade, it's more about the knowledge that future games will be coming which are exclusive to the new 3DS as well.

I don't know why actually. There is a lot of hate videos about the name New 3DS like these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5zQDE_SsTc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQzcXJ2oTHg&list=UUjb0MYm5NVLktN1b6GqQzOA

I feel like half the hate is coming from the confusion cause the news came out of no where. I have also noticed that in many sites, usually the people are mostly pissed are the ones that bought a 3ds in the past 6 months to a year ago while others that had it for longer than that dont really care or want the new 3ds cause their current one is old

With that being said, I will be buying this day 1 cause I think the improvements on it will extend the life of the 3ds kinda like how the dsi extended the life of the DS and I think a lot of the people just need to wait for a NA Nintendo direct and see where its headed before they start hating it

I'm Ok with the New 3DS getting exclusive games as long as those games are just ports of older games like Xenoblade!

Everything not Sony gets hate in the world of videogames. If sony announces a potatoe it will be the best thing in the world.

I didnt notice any hate. But it is puzzling the way Nintendo are beeing coy. This is effectively the next Nintendo portable.

Uh, what.

Did you happen to miss the entirety of the LoU Remastered internet saga or something?

Where did Sony touch you?