February 2015 NPD Thread! 3DS: 395k, PS4: 342k, XBO: 276k, WiiU: 96k

[binary solo]

Skullwaker said:

binary solo said:

It's funny how you can be so right and so wrong while making a single point. Your fundamental flaw is that buying a kinectless sku doesn't prevent you from ever playing kinect games, if you ever decide that just dance is a must have game you can go buy a kinect and you are sweet. With 3DS if you already own the old version you can't go out and buy a clip on device to make it able to play N3DS only games, you have to buy a whole new 3DS.

However I agree that N3DS should be regarded as the same gen product and counted together. Yes I am okay but I really don't want to talk right now. I will see you guys on Monday But I think any company that does a hardware refresh mid-gen making the previous hardware unable to play all future game releases is being an arsehole dick wanker. This applies to any company that does this not just Nintendo. 

Except that's not the case with the New 3DS. There's only one game announced for it. Games like Majora's Mask 3D, MH4U, Codename STEAM, Fire Emblem If, etc. work on a regular 3DS.

And you believe there won't be more? Third parties will wait and see how sales go to see if there will be an install base worth making a game that makes use of the new specs. If N3DS has the sales effect Nintendo are hoping it does then there will be a big enough install base for 3rd parties and Nintendo to make use of those better specs.

At the moment your defence amounts to, "no one will use the new specs for games so Nintendo aren't really being dicks, they are actually just being cynical by releasing new hardware that will get Nintendo fans to re-buy 3DS but that will never be used in any meaningful way." The motivations really aren't any better. Either way you cut it, doing a spec refresh is a dick move.