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RCTjunkie on 19 March 2011

Good thing I joined the "Reviewers don't influence us" club, or I would miss out on possibly the greatest systtem ever.



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Conegamer on 19 March 2011
radiantshadow92 said:
Conegamer said:

'definite redesign'

Why is a re-design guaranteed anyway?

At any rate, I agree with the review...mostly. I wouldn't say its too bulky, nor would I say it has short battery life, but I shall see that for myself

I'm getting one over here for £200, seems about fair to me 

That would be like saying that the Ps4 isn't going to get a slim version. We all know it is lol, just like the 3DS is going to get a revision. It always happens. 

You'd think so, but in an interview with ONM, Iwata claimned that a 3DS re-design 'was not planned' and 'is unlikely to occur'

Also, I played the 3DS today for a while and loved it. The staff says that it lasts around 3 and a half hour with everything on, but it lasts nearly 9 hours with everything off, in power-saving mode

There's nothing to worry about



 

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Galaki on 19 March 2011
Conegamer said:

but it lasts nearly 9 hours with everything off


Bullshit. I lasts forever with everything off.



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Conegamer on 19 March 2011
Galaki said:
Conegamer said:

but it lasts nearly 9 hours with everything off


Bullshit. I lasts forever with everything off.

Lol, fine

It lasts nearly 9 hours on the lowest brigthness setting, power saving mode. This is the first step ABOVe everything being turned off



 

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Acevil on 19 March 2011
MaxwellGT2000 said:

Build quality score is such BS it's not even funny.  Being someone that has actually played the system it's a higher build quality of the DS lite and the DS Lite was one of the best revisions to a Nintendo handheld ever.

Clicky shoulder buttons have always been there since DS Phat - fact he stated being wrong *check*

Longevity I'm really iffy about since this is the first and only report I've heard of "two and a half" hours of battery life, since that would but it at as low as the original PSP.  All reports I've read has it at three and a half to seven hours depending on what you're playing and if you turn features off.  

And yeah counting off because there's going to be a handheld revision is a joke.

I can agree on the price being a bit much for a handheld but it's in line with the revisions to the DS and the same price as the launch PSP, but my limit for a handheld is 200 I stick to that, but I'm going a bit out of my way for a 3DS simply because it has a lot of things I want.

Bottom line is this review has bad examples, I don't think was properly tested when multiple credible sources say something else and in line with each other, and it's like the guy never played an original DS since he made a point to talk about the "clicky" shoulder buttons but the DS has always had them... 

Eh IGN does a piss poor job at reviewing ever since their only good reviewers Matt, Mark, and Craig left.

Well IGN is a joke site anyways, they are as much as gamer site as they are anything else site these days. If you ever looked at traffic results for IGN, they have greatly declined. Opinions based by them have been greatly being ingored by majority of gaming audience, until they do attention whore BS such as this. 

Personally I love users, who don't know anything about the PSP battery life, or the DSi Battery life on highest settings. (HINT: They were at the same level)



 

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irstupid on 19 March 2011

rating systems before out is just dumb, they should be rated after at minimum a year

btw anyone know other ign scores?

i couldn't find original psp score, but saw ps3 got a 6/10

also 2 hours? i have yet to see ANYWHERE else state anything less than 3 EVER. 

was this 2 hours off the original "half-charge" that the battery came like when he opened box?



Acevil on 19 March 2011
irstupid said:

rating systems before out is just dumb, they should be rated after at minimum a year

btw anyone know other ign scores?

i couldn't find original psp score, but saw ps3 got a 6/10

also 2 hours? i have yet to see ANYWHERE else state anything less than 3 EVER. 

was this 2 hours off the original "half-charge" that the battery came like when he opened box?


It is IGN, they most likely were like what would annoy people like us the most.....hmmm. 



 

radiantshadow92 on 19 March 2011
irstupid said:

rating systems before out is just dumb, they should be rated after at minimum a year

btw anyone know other ign scores?

i couldn't find original psp score, but saw ps3 got a 6/10

also 2 hours? i have yet to see ANYWHERE else state anything less than 3 EVER. 

was this 2 hours off the original "half-charge" that the battery came like when he opened box?


Ummmm no. They have to rate the system so people know what they are getting before they buy it. Much like a game.



radiantshadow92 on 19 March 2011
Acevil said:
irstupid said:

rating systems before out is just dumb, they should be rated after at minimum a year

btw anyone know other ign scores?

i couldn't find original psp score, but saw ps3 got a 6/10

also 2 hours? i have yet to see ANYWHERE else state anything less than 3 EVER. 

was this 2 hours off the original "half-charge" that the battery came like when he opened box?


It is IGN, they most likely were like what would annoy people like us the most.....hmmm. 

I really don't see what would annoy anyone. The system got a good score. Emphasis on good.



Christian973 on 19 March 2011

You can't spell IGNorant without IGN ;)



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