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MTZehvor on 30 August 2014
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StarDoor said:
MTZehvor said:

People only dislike it (at least from what I can tell) because it has its own exclusives without being a new generation of hardware, meaning that early adopters of the 3DS are punished severely.

Really? I think that early adopters are actually the ones who are the least upset over this news. From what I've seen, people who recently bought a 3DS are angry because they just purchased hardware that's about to be out-of-date in a year or less, but people who bought a 3DS near launch don't mind and are more likely to want an upgrade.

I got my original 3DS back in 2011, and I'm definitely going to get the N3DS when it releases in NA. By the time it comes out here, the 3DS will have been out for at least 3 years and 9 months. That's already longer than the time between the Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance in NA, which was 2 years and 7 months, and it's also longer than between the GBA and DS in NA, which was 3 years and 5 months. This is hardly Nintendo's worst offense when it comes to new versions of handhelds.

Well, by "early adopters" I meant anyone who bought a 3DS before this.

I realize this is by no means Nintendo's "worse offense," but simply because things have been worse in the past doesn't mean that people are justified in being upset now.