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d21lewis said:
After watching Nintendo Direct on my 3DS last night and seeing some of the upcoming games, I'm having a hard time seeing the difference between 3DS and DS, too.


That may be the nicest thing anyone's ever said about the 3DS!

Too bad it isn't true.



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It's Nintendo's fault. They went after the mainstream audience who aren't very familiar with video games; it is also their job to present the core difference of the two in ways this certain audience can very well understand.



I'm pretty sure all those gaming machine things are called Nintendos.



Before the PS3 everyone was nice to me :(

MDMAlliance said:
d21lewis said:
After watching Nintendo Direct on my 3DS last night and seeing some of the upcoming games, I'm having a hard time seeing the difference between 3DS and DS, too.


Sarcasm?  or are you referring to something else?  Because there's a clear difference in capabilities.  I've gotten myself some DS games and they look wayyyy different. 

A little.  I have some games that clearly aren't possible on the original DS.  But you have some games like RE:R that look amazing and didn't sell very well.  It may just be a little discouraging for devs to try and push the hardware (which is definitely powerful).  I don't think many of them are even bothering.

I watched the Nintendo Direct video in hopes of finding something to be excited about.  They showed some awesome stuff like Paper Mario but they also showed a lot of stuff that will definitely be fun but don't push the console (Like Angry Birds and the 2D Mickey Mouse).  I'll be buying the Mickey Mouse game almost definitely since Magical Quest was one of my favorite SNES games but it doesn't look amazing.

And aren't you on my 3DS friends list?  You KNOW I play the fuck out of my 3DS!!



How exactly has the 3DS not been a success?  The DS released in the US in November 2004 and in Japan in December 2004.  After 18 months, it shipped 21.27mil units worldwide with over 20mil sold.  The 3DS released in Japan in February 2011 and in the US in March 2011.  After 18 months, the 3DS shipped 21mil with more than 20mil sold worldwide.  So the DS was a success, but the 3DS is a failure?



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wvelting said:

How exactly has the 3DS not been a success?  The DS released in the US in November 2004 and in Japan in December 2004.  After 18 months, it shipped 21.27mil units worldwide with over 20mil sold.  The 3DS released in Japan in February 2011 and in the US in March 2011.  After 18 months, the 3DS shipped 21mil with more than 20mil sold worldwide.  So the DS was a success, but the 3DS is a failure?


Somebody said it wasn't a success?



they are all nintendos so who gives a shit?



in the front cover says 3 in red, isnt that enough?



d21lewis said:
MDMAlliance said:
d21lewis said:
After watching Nintendo Direct on my 3DS last night and seeing some of the upcoming games, I'm having a hard time seeing the difference between 3DS and DS, too.


Sarcasm?  or are you referring to something else?  Because there's a clear difference in capabilities.  I've gotten myself some DS games and they look wayyyy different. 

A little.  I have some games that clearly aren't possible on the original DS.  But you have some games like RE:R that look amazing and didn't sell very well.  It may just be a little discouraging for devs to try and push the hardware (which is definitely powerful).  I don't think many of them are even bothering.

I watched the Nintendo Direct video in hopes of finding something to be excited about.  They showed some awesome stuff like Paper Mario but they also showed a lot of stuff that will definitely be fun but don't push the console (Like Angry Birds and the 2D Mickey Mouse).  I'll be buying the Mickey Mouse game almost definitely since Magical Quest was one of my favorite SNES games but it doesn't look amazing.

And aren't you on my 3DS friends list?  You KNOW I play the fuck out of my 3DS!!


I don't think I've added anyone here yet on my friends list on the 3DS.  I definitely agree that the Mickey Mouse game looks graphically similar to a DS game, though.  It seems to me that it may have originally been planned for DS as it doesn't do anything that a DS couldn't do anyway.  I also play my 3DS a lot, with over a hundred hours put into Kid Icarus and over 90 hours put into Ocarina of Time 3D, nearly 70 hours in Theatrhythm, etc.



you guys have little memory
the 3DS underperformed severely for like 5 months, and it was being sold at a loss, just because now its doing great doesnt mean is going to turn into a monstruous succes like the DS
i will do great and make billions for Nintendo, but it will never ever match the DS in the long run