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Thorstify on 08 December 2016

No!!!



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Random_Matt on 08 December 2016

Hope not.



superchunk on 08 December 2016
Bandorr said:
superchunk said:

So some hardware specific or niche titles... yeah that set a precedent for power differences.

I don't even know why I commented on this thread. The entire concept doesn't make sense and I have no clue what those of you are thinking the power difference will be when docked vs not. Not to mention that any game ported to NS would have been originally created on hardware (Xbox/PS) that is much more powerful than NS docked or not.

It should be painfully obvious that no one is going to put a game on NS that wouldn't function when portable.

So you asked if there were exclusives on the N3ds/DSI. The answer was yes. You asked for a list - you were given a list to both. Now you are writing off both lists as "hardware specific and niche titles".

Leaving the question - why ask either of those questions in the first place? You weren't going to accept the answer in the first place.

I could not think of ever seeing anything exclusive to those variants. Then when showed a list of "hardware specific and niche titles", I laugh and see that while technically I was wrong, it doesn't help the suggestion that NS will have games exclusive to being docked.

There will be ZERO games that only support portable (touch screen interface) or docked (marginal power increase) created for the NS. It is slightly possible a digitial/VC game that requires touch may exist when you consider how many touch Nintendo games exist, but nothing newly created and launched on NS. Even then I'd expect it would be tweaked to work without touch.



Barkley on 08 December 2016
superchunk said:

I could not think of ever seeing anything exclusive to those variants. Then when showed a list of "hardware specific and niche titles", I laugh and see that while technically I was wrong, it doesn't help the suggestion that NS will have games exclusive to being docked.

There will be ZERO games that only support portable (touch screen interface) or docked (marginal power increase) created for the NS.

I don't disagree with you, all games will support both modes. You simply asked a question and I supplied an answer.

Though at least Xenoblade isn't niche.