| oniyide said: no it isnt the same thing. I dont know why people keep saying this. the DSi didnt really change too much from DS and they didnt boast having its own library that would be incompatible with older games. Yeah they had eshop games but none of them were of consequence they were no DSi retail exclusive games that i know off. GBC its not even close to the same. GBC was released almost TEN years after the original GB, matter of fact its really a succesor and not a redesign. We're essentially getting a faux sucessor to 3ds only 3 and half years after intial release. Now this might not hurt ninty too much but Im sure its not going to really set the charts on fire, and if it isnt doing that i have to wonder what is the point? |
The DSi changed more than the N3DS is changing in the hardware. It also lost the GBA slot on the bottom, making it impossible to play GBA games on the DSi where as before the DSLite had maintained that feature. (This is why Nintendo continued to support the DSLite.)
The DSi did have its own games and not just eshop titles but actual games. There were four retail exclusives, wikipedia is your friend. There were also many games that simply ran better or to a fuller extent on the updated hardware, not least of which was Pokemon BW2. (And aside from some exlusives that Nintendo themselves will pump out as no 3rd party is going to shun the entire 3DS audience, its going to all go down the exact same way as it did with the DSi.)
The GBC was released 9 years after the Gameboy, it had well over fifty exclusive games as well as many games that worked both ways.
This isn't meant to set charts on fire, this is meant to be an itteration on the 3DS that better accomodates games that could use more inputs like MH, Smash, and, no doubt, Xenoblade as well as provide a better user interface (same thing came up from DS to DSi). The improved power of the console will allow it to actually emulate GBA games (something the 3DS cannot do at all). But this isn't a new console. Their next handheld will actually be on competing grounds, if not well above, the Vita.
