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darkknightkryta on 14 August 2012
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Kenology said:
darkknightkryta said:

And what pretail may that be?  Monster Hunter 4?  A sequel to a console title.  Zelda?  Oh right Ocarina of time is a port of a console title.  Mario Kart 7?  Yes a sequel to the console title.  Super Mario 3D Land?  Closest thing... and is a 3D version of a 2D title, which happens to be on the Wii.  Kid Icarus could have been done on the Wii.  Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop is being compared to Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, which are console games.

Don't try to downplay Kid Icarus.  It's precisely the type of game I'm taking about.  You can't get it on the Wii or Wii U, you have to buy a 3DS to enjoy it.  And what difference does it make that it could've been done on Wii?  The point is that it isn't on Wii. Super Mario 3D Land

But let me make this easy for you to understand by giving you this one perfect example:  Notice how main series Pokemon are ONLY released on Nintendo's handhelds...  If you buy a Nintendo home console, the best you can do for a Pokemon fix is a spinoff.  If you want Pokemon, you MUST buy a Nintendo handheld.

Vita's biggest games are down-sized console games that are releasing alongside superior versions of said games on HD consoles.  And calling a Nihilistic developed Call of Duty a down-sizing is putting things very nicely here.  Sony is making the Vita an extension of the PS3 and that will be the system's undoing.  Cross buy may hurt more than it helps.

You do realize Nintendo's handhelds would cease to exist without Pokemon?  That and cost are the only reason why they've never made a full blown RPG on consoles.  And RPGs are console games, by that reasoning Pokemon is a "down-sized console game".   So what's your argument again?  And just cause you don't wanna share games between handhelds and console, doesn't mean others don't.  I mean, all my trips to Italy, when I'd sit down playing games they were always console games ported to handhelds.  A Link to the Past, Legend of Dragoon on a modded PSP, Final Fantasy 4-6 on GBA.  I'd rather sit down with Metal Gear Solid 4 while I'm on a trip than with Nintendogs.  Hell when I was playing Final Fantasy XIII-2 there were plenty of times when I wanted to put my save on the Vita and curl up with it in my bed and grind a way and do sidequests but I couldn't.