Lucas-Rio said:
Jumpin said:
Lucas-Rio said:
irstupid said:
Lucas-Rio said:
Jumpin said:
I am not sure where people got the idea that people don't play local multiplayer games on handhelds. Pokemon, Monster Hunter PSP/3DS, and Mario Kart DS/3DS are probably the three biggest local multiplayer game franchises in the world that aren't motion control centric. |
Pokemon is a 1vs1 multiplayer game where two games with each one save are needed. That's absolutely nothing to compare with Smash Bros who has to be played on a single screen for the maximum of fun.
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You do know what Locally means right? Means you have 4 people sitting around a camp fire for example with each having a 3DS out and playing.
It would be no different than playing on the tv screen. You would all see the same thing on yoru own 3DS. You can still lip off, swear, ect.
I think your confusing local play with over the internet. The Wii smash had over the internet, and as You i find that no fun. I want people in the room with me playing. the 3DS and Wii U both allow that. Only differnece is the screen size, and the fact that for 3DS you have to have 4 3DS to do it.
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I am not confusing.
Having 4 3DS and 4 games is way too much of an hurdle. And on the same big screen non splitted, this is much better
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I already disproved this in my first post by pointing out how handheld versions of Mario Kart, Pokemon, and Monster Hunter are highly successful as local multiplayer games.
Mario Kart 3D and 3DS feature a popular 8 player local multiplayer mode.
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Pokemon isn't only successfull due to local multiplayers, you are very far from that. Monster Hunter isn't popular in the west and Mario Kart on handheld isn't popular for local multiplayer, but much more for online. That's why it's most popular on home console with a real and user firendly local MP.
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Pokemon is built on local multiplayer, trading, battling and later more via friends is part of what made the franchise the hit it was. Monster Hunter isn't huge in the west but it is MASSIVE on nearly a Pokemon level in Japan, based on joining up with other people and going on hunts. Nintendo is a Japanese company, even if they have a lot of their money in foreign investments, they try to appease their home markets and to get the most money and in Japan local multiplayer via portables is a much bigger facet of gaming then it is in the West.
The only way Smash Bros can possibily fail on the 3DS is if Nintendo/Namco fail to take into account the screen size (of both the regular and XL systems) and they mess up the zoom by doing it too far out or too close.
