There are a lot of strong feelings about the New 3DS, both excited for it and enraged by it. I have a proposition that may be seen as a potential solution to this dilemma, and I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts on it.

One of the main concerns of the New 3DS is that Nintendo (and other publishers) will phase out support for the old 3DS models and begin developing several titles exclusively for the New 3DS. I'll put those fears to rest right now, my suggestion (and I suspect reality will reflect this) would be for these exclusives to be extremely few and far between, and perhaps entirely ports of Wii or GameCube games. Basically, don't worry about those, I already know how everyone feels about that. Try to imagine that the New 3DS effectively receives zero exclusive retail support, for the purposes of the upcoming question.

What if the main focus of "exclusive" New 3DS software support is through the Virtual Console? NES, GameBoy, and GameBoy Color support on the 3DS VC has slowed to a crawl, but most of the important stuff is there. It's been suggested (or outright stated? I can't recall) before that the reason the 3DS does not support SNES and GBA Virtual Console games is because it doesn't have enough power to run them with the bells and whistles afforded to NES and GB/C VC games. The more powerful New 3DS may be able to get there.

I'm certainly not the first person to think of this, but I haven't seen anyone discussing it around here. So I ask: would you still be upset (or would you still be excited) if the exclusive software for the New 3DS was almost entirely comprised of SNES and/or GBA Virtual Console support?

Not mad at all. I only have one 3DS which I share with my sister. I really need to buy a new one and the new model will totally come in handy! Good exclusives would be the icing, as I don't plan on purchasing Xenoblade.

After reading your post, I guess bragging about exclusives with them almost exclusively being of SNES/GBA VC games would be extremely stupid. I'm not looking forward to exclusives, so I don't care about them, but I'm not the GP.

My old 3ds will be sold and the new one will be mine. Any theoreticall problem solved.

I haven't been following this new 3DS closely, but Does the difference in power make it impossible to create games that run on both sytems ?

Not at all. This question was posed under the assumption that almost all future 3DS releases will be compatible with all models. However, Nintendo has promised additional exclusive N3DS support beyond Xenoblade, which has upset some 3DS owners.

The GBA ambassador games are not 'Virtual Console' releases. They are essentially running through DS backwards compatibility mode, while running the DS's GBA backwards compatibility. I'm not so tech-savvy with this stuff but my understanding is that the 3DS is simulating DS hardware simulating GBA hardware, and is not emulating the software. It's a complicated workaround and it's very limited compared to the Virtual Console emulation on 3DS.

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So far it appears that this proposition has appeased no one. Oh well.

I don't mind it and I am going to get it day one! The current 3ds clearly has a lot of issues, specially with online so I can kinda see why they did this. I was thinking of selling my current 3ds xl for the n3ds but now, I think, I will keep it for hacking purposes lolll

But yea, I, personally, can't wait! I get why some people are mad about it but people has to understand that this isn't Nintendo's next gen console nor is Nintendo dropping all of their support for the current 3ds... All they are doing is just extending the life of the 3ds by doing something like this and I am sure they will have few exclusives for the n3ds but I doubt it will be like, n3ds or nothing

And it would be great if it was more of a "port" machine than just an exclusive machine and what I mean by that is that if the only games that are exclusive to the n3ds were ports from wii/gc, I think that would stop all the whining

This is probably the first thing I thought when I heard about the new 3DS's increased capability.

And yes, I want it. I'm almost certainly going to upgrade and sell my XL.
Plus digital exclusives will confuse the consumer less, because I'm sure we'll have people trying to play the few n3DS exclusive carts on their original 3DSs and complaining about it.

I think the poll is poorly structurated man, i love the new 3DS and while i agree these ''exclusive titles'' will be possible to count with 1 hand's fingers at the end of the generation, i would hate if the new software was only VC titles and there is no poll option that represents how i feel

At first I was pissed. Like reallllllllllly pissed off. Now I'm just between very annoyed and pissed.

I hate the name, and the fact that it comes with exclusives games. Would rather them wait and just do a new generation of hardware. If I sell 2 of my 3DS' then maybe it would help offset 50% of the cost.

"I need dat, now maybe not so much." is supposed to represent excitement for the console but disappointment with exclusive support being limited mainly to VC releases. I wanted the poll options to still show up in full after voting, so I made them short & sweet.