Cream147 on 29 August 2014
| Phronesis said: I am pissed about this. Of course there are people who will defend, there are people who buys new Apples annually because "Oh, look, it's iPhone 5!" and before you realize there's a 6 ahead. Consoles should NOT be like this. We expect support many years after we bought'em. It's not even an entirely new handheld, it's the same, but now with games that I won't be able to play. Yet, you expect me to find this amazing. Just toss money to Nintendo AGAIN and buy the new system, then pray that they won't release another one the year following. Do you doubt? XL was launched 2012, 2DS launched 2013 and the new 3DS on 2014. Does Nintendo brainwash people so they buy everything without thinking? Vita had a hardware revision, the 2.0, and I'm able to play all the games of this "new" system. Imagine the following scenario: you bought the WiiU and one year later they release the New WiiU which is EXACTLY the same, except Smash Bros is exclusive for him. |
Spare me. The 3DS was released in 2011. It has had two hardware revisions, but all games are playable on all of these. My launch day 3DS still serves me well. New 3DS probably won't be released in the West until 2015, 4 years after the original 3DS. That's almost an acceptable life cycle as it is, but add onto this that the branding of this as a revision rather than a new console means they're almost certainly going to continue support for the original 3DS and what is your problem? So far there is literally 1 N3DS exclusive, so it's hardly a concern as it is.
Your imagined scenario would certainly be horrible - of course, what Nintendo are doing is literally nothing like that so why bring it up?
