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NintendoSupporter<3 on 31 August 2014
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NextGen_Gamer said:
NintendoSupporter<3 said:

I see a lot of people complaining about the name, but when you think about it.....there's no other way you can name it. It's not the next gen of Nintendo's handheld so it can't be called "4DS". I saw some say it should have been called 3DSi or 3DS U, those are horrible names. 

Like I said in another thread, I think the remodeled 3DS will be Nintendo's last handheld. The Nintendo Fusion will be Nintendo's next thing. They just needed to bring more like to the 3DS because it really is showing it's age.

But what do you guys think?

edit: Well you guys proved me wrong quickly lol. 3DS+ should have been the name.

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.


Whoa slow down there....where did you get this information from about the GPU?