spemanig said:
No they are not "effectively" one vertical screen. Just because you can put the two screens together on a bugdet device doesn't mean they are functionally unified. You could do the same exact connecting with the Wii U and it's games would play exactly the same as 3DS games, only you wouldn't because TVs are a tiny bit heavier to move around than a 3DS is. There's nothing wrong with the concept. Just the excecution. That's why it's being brought back on the NX home console, and being executed differently, as proven by the two recent patents. When I play DS mode on the Wii U, I usually have the top screen on the TV and the bottom screen on the gamepad, because that's the way 99% of DS games are meant to be played and that's likely the way most people play DS games on the Wii U. There's very little reason to be playing most DS games while looking at both screens at the same time, and the types of games that tried to treat both screens as a single unified screen died out because the concept doesn't work. There are hardly any 3DS games like that anymore, and there will be even less NX games like that. Most dual screen games have the main action on the top and the map/hud/inventory on the bottom because that is by far the best use of that screen. Most Wii U games do it. Most 3DS games do it. Most DS games did it, and the only ones that didn't are part of that extinct brand of experimental early DS games that where merely trying to figure out the best ways to use the new format. Nintendo aren't going to relegate BC for a handheld to an optional controller periferal attatchment when they can just make the handheld naturally compatible with literally everything other than most Wii games. That would be beyond stupid. And it wouldn't "cost pennies to produce." The circle pad pro was a $20 attachment, and this would be much more expensive to make and sell than that. And the CCP sold so porely that they had to sell an entirely new console with the same added functionality to make up for it, which sold exponencially better. |
If you wanna play 15 year old games, then you can pay the extra $20 as far as I see it. The whole userbase and development community shouldn't have to be penalized with weaker hardware because some old fart wants to play a DS game from 2005.
No one is going to buy a NX because it can play old games over what Sony or MS are offering, Nintendo needs to wake up and stop looking to the past to bail them out.
If you like DS/3DS and don't want to pay $20 for a piece of clip on plastic ... great. Buy a freaking New 3DS. That's what it's there for. Enjoy it.
I can't play GBA games on my 3DS, I don't complain about it, I don't need to play GBA games on my 3DS. It'd be a nice-to-have, but that's it, it's the last thing I think about when I use my 3DS. Most people don't care. The 3DS would not be selling any better if it had access to 12 year old GBA games. Nobody but like a tiny minority on the internet gives two craps about that.
Nintendo should be asking themselves about the people who today AREN'T buying their hardware. Why aren't they. That's the audience they need to focus, not Nintendo fans. I'm sorry, yes they make a lot of noise on the internet, but they will all shut up and fall in line once you show a good Mario game, it's the other people that need Nintendo's attention. That should be the driving design principal of the NX ... and they should not be afraid to make changes to their "traditional format". Their "traditional format" is a fast lane highway to being a third party at this rate.
