| NextGen_Gamer said: You say the "new" 3DS is not Nintendo's next-gen handheld, but let me ask you something - would you consider the Wii U to be a new console compard to the Wii? Because hardware-wise, the differences between "new" 3DS and original 3DS are only slightly less than what Nintendo did with the Wii to Wii U jump. For "new" 3DS, Nintendo apparently tripled the CPU clockspeed, doubled the GPU clockspeed, and doubled both the main memory and graphics VRAM on it. Then you add in the new buttons and C-Stick, and by most standards, the "new" 3DS is absolutely a new handheld system. My biggest concern is this: because the "new" 3DS is more powerful and has a different control layout, they are already annoucned games that completely exclusive to it; games that will ONLY run on the "new" 3DS and not original. Now just imagine how many parents are going to be confused when they buy a game (which still use the same catridges), bring it home to their kid, only to find out their kid's 3DS isn't the "new" one lol. You would have thought Nintendo would have learned from such disasters after the Wii U, but I guess not. So far, my favorite name on here is the Nintendo 3DS+ - simple, gets the point across, and I think would avoid a lot of confusion at retail. |
Please stop, the CPU, GPU and software environment of the wii and wiiu are completely different, additional hardware specifically for the controller stream functions been added, a blu ray drive instead of dvd, internal memory.
new 3ds has a slightly improved paralax barrier screen, an NFC reader and higher clock speed cpu, just like how the dsi has a faster clockspeed than the ds/dslite.
| NextGen_Gamer said: Nintendo apparently tripled the CPU clockspeed, doubled the GPU clockspeed, and doubled both the main memory and graphics VRAM on it. |
Would you like to show a realiable source for this information? because by Nintendo's own words, only the CPU has been upgraded, other news outlets have mentioned "improved 3d performance" which would be a direct result of a cpu speed boost.
Other outlets have taken Nintendo saying "the 3D functionality has been improved" which is a REFERENCE TO THE PARALAX LCD, as being related to the GPU, which it is not - if you're reffering to the gameranx article, they pulled the numbers out of their backside, but even then, they state that the gpu and vram are the same as the old one.
The difference between the 3ds and new 3ds is minimal, the difference between wii and wiiu is massive.
