| Soundwave said:
As some one who travels a lot for work, I'd say the ratio I see of kids using iPads/their parents smartphone for gaming outnumbers the 3DS by 10 to 1. Easily. This isn't even a contest anymore. The 3DS this year will have the lowest Nintendo handheld shipment in almost 20 years. They have not had sales this low since before Pokemon was invented. People who think "everything is hunky dory" haven't actually looked at the cold sales data. Nintendo has. That's why they are making smartphone games. 3DS is not getting it done. I don't think there's anything superior about a dual screen. The human eye can only fixate on one screen at a time most times. That means the second screen is almost always a map/inventory screen, which is eating up half the system's battery for something you look at maybe 10% of your play time. I'd rather have one single screen, especially as the graphics in the next handheld are going to be much better. Let the artists who work hard show off their work on a bigger canvas. |
You're eyes don't need to fixate on two screens simultaneously for dual screens to offer a vastly superior experience. You don't need more than a map and some quick equip buttons for the dual screen experience to be superior. Literally just having a map and inventory screens, two things you never need you eyes on more than 10% of the time, makes for a 100% better gaming experience. The games are worse when they try and reinvent the wheel with the second screen. Star Fox Zero and Splatoon are a poor use of the second screen. MGS3D and WWHD are perfect implementation. Map. Inventory. Quick equip. Perfect . Sleek. Non intrusive. Superior to single screen.
Don't need a bigger canvas. The XL's screen is plenty big. Just raise the resolution and it'll be fine.
I never said "everything is hunky dory." I said dual screens aren't "outdated to kids." They aren't. Kids aren't playing on smart phones because they think "dual screens are outdated" - they're playing on smart phones because their parents have smart phones and smart phones have one screen because they aren't built for gaming, but for, shocker, phone calls.
I didn't bring up the summer camp to prove "3DS is doing better than smart phones and tablets." I brought it up to show how kids don't think dual screens are out dated. That's made up. Fabricated. Not true.
