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Super_Boom said:
Is there some unspoken rule here that no one reports frequent posters? From what I can see, the derailment in this thread can almost entirely be attributed to one user.

OT: Really glad to hear the 3DS is doing so well. Easily my favorite gaming device right now. I'm still working on Shin Megami Tensei IV, Zelda, and Pokemon Y, and with Bravely Default coming next month, that doesn't seem to be changing anytime soon.


Lord no, it's just hard to exactly pin what is being done other than derailing and flamebaiting other users into getting warned by telling him to go away like Naum got, but that doesn't mean his posts haven't been reported and chatted about in PMs about exactly what he is trying to do in here since it's pretty clear when Naum gets insta warned.

OT: Wow at least you're into the newer games when it comes to the 3ds, because when I got mine I still had a big back catalogue of DS games which I was working through (and still am... only just finished the unwound future in the layton series) but yeah because I didn't actually get into 3ds games for ages I now have around... 30/40 games sat on a shelf here waiting for me to open them, I have a bad issue with wanting to 100% games I love so already 100%'d the Starfox64 3d game, Sonic Generations 3d and have my 5 shiny stars on my profile in Super Mario 3d land tho.

My desire to 100% and complete a game is why I've such issues with being in World of Warcraft so much... someone needs to make an addon for that game which after a random number of enemies killed a "you win the game" message pops up and some credits roll, then I could stop.



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Lawlight said:
If the system is a powerhouse, what would they call the PS consoles?

Totally misunderstood this post at first.

But then I realised you were actually comparing 3DS and PS sales. Disappointed.



ganoncrotch said:
Super_Boom said:
Is there some unspoken rule here that no one reports frequent posters? From what I can see, the derailment in this thread can almost entirely be attributed to one user.

OT: Really glad to hear the 3DS is doing so well. Easily my favorite gaming device right now. I'm still working on Shin Megami Tensei IV, Zelda, and Pokemon Y, and with Bravely Default coming next month, that doesn't seem to be changing anytime soon.


Lord no, it's just hard to exactly pin what is being done other than derailing and flamebaiting other users into getting warned by telling him to go away like Naum got, but that doesn't mean his posts haven't been reported and chatted about in PMs about exactly what he is trying to do in here since it's pretty clear when Naum gets insta warned.

OT: Wow at least you're into the newer games when it comes to the 3ds, because when I got mine I still had a big back catalogue of DS games which I was working through (and still am... only just finished the unwound future in the layton series) but yeah because I didn't actually get into 3ds games for ages I now have around... 30/40 games sat on a shelf here waiting for me to open them, I have a bad issue with wanting to 100% games I love so already 100%'d the Starfox64 3d game, Sonic Generations 3d and have my 5 shiny stars on my profile in Super Mario 3d land tho.

My desire to 100% and complete a game is why I've such issues with being in World of Warcraft so much... someone needs to make an addon for that game which after a random number of enemies killed a "you win the game" message pops up and some credits roll, then I could stop.

Wow, that's kinda sad. It's like he's only here to ruin everyone else's fun, rather than to enjoy the community himself. Ah well, I suppose if everyone's aware of what he's doing, we can all just keep an eye out. Or ignore him.

Ha ha, I guess I'm kinda the same way. If I include my DS backlog, my 3DS list would be even bigger. >.< I suppose it's good that I have extra games whenever there's a lull in the 3DS release schedule. I still have Chrono Cross, Dragon Quest VI, and Kirby Mass Attack to beat, and Pokemon Conquest, Dragon Quest IX, and Kid Icarus to 100%. I had to skip Mario 3D Land to Luigi's Mansion because my backlog was too insane, though I'd like to play those both someday.

Do you/have you played any of the Elder Scrolls games? I only ask because I used to be kinda obsessive about 100%ing games, but Skyrim forced me to tone it down. I was spending way too much time trying to clear random bandit camps and talking to NPCs, that I was forgetting what the main game was actually about XD.



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Nkh3 said:
Glad it's kicking asses.Whenever actually a gaming system does well...it's good isn't it?
But...does anyone feel that it's not a very good hardware devise?I mean my 3ds xl is not the most comfy machine to play on and the sound is not that good as well.Just one analog stick and it feels like it's prone to damage.
I would have gotten a 2ds if it wasn't for the pokemon special edition 3ds xl.Although I have to admit that the large screens are Veeeery important.


Same with me.  I have X&Y Blue.  I thought about going with the 2DS, but the XL is definitely worth it!  



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Super_Boom said:
ganoncrotch said:
Super_Boom said:
Is there some unspoken rule here that no one reports frequent posters? From what I can see, the derailment in this thread can almost entirely be attributed to one user.

OT: Really glad to hear the 3DS is doing so well. Easily my favorite gaming device right now. I'm still working on Shin Megami Tensei IV, Zelda, and Pokemon Y, and with Bravely Default coming next month, that doesn't seem to be changing anytime soon.


Lord no, it's just hard to exactly pin what is being done other than derailing and flamebaiting other users into getting warned by telling him to go away like Naum got, but that doesn't mean his posts haven't been reported and chatted about in PMs about exactly what he is trying to do in here since it's pretty clear when Naum gets insta warned.

OT: Wow at least you're into the newer games when it comes to the 3ds, because when I got mine I still had a big back catalogue of DS games which I was working through (and still am... only just finished the unwound future in the layton series) but yeah because I didn't actually get into 3ds games for ages I now have around... 30/40 games sat on a shelf here waiting for me to open them, I have a bad issue with wanting to 100% games I love so already 100%'d the Starfox64 3d game, Sonic Generations 3d and have my 5 shiny stars on my profile in Super Mario 3d land tho.

My desire to 100% and complete a game is why I've such issues with being in World of Warcraft so much... someone needs to make an addon for that game which after a random number of enemies killed a "you win the game" message pops up and some credits roll, then I could stop.

Wow, that's kinda sad. It's like he's only here to ruin everyone else's fun, rather than to enjoy the community himself. Ah well, I suppose if everyone's aware of what he's doing, we can all just keep an eye out. Or ignore him.

Ha ha, I guess I'm kinda the same way. If I include my DS backlog, my 3DS list would be even bigger. >.< I suppose it's good that I have extra games whenever there's a lull in the 3DS release schedule. I still have Chrono Cross, Dragon Quest VI, and Kirby Mass Attack to beat, and Pokemon Conquest, Dragon Quest IX, and Kid Icarus to 100%. I had to skip Mario 3D Land to Luigi's Mansion because my backlog was too insane, though I'd like to play those both someday.

Do you/have you played any of the Elder Scrolls games? I only ask because I used to be kinda obsessive about 100%ing games, but Skyrim forced me to tone it down. I was spending way too much time trying to clear random bandit camps and talking to NPCs, that I was forgetting what the main game was actually about XD.

I have the game of the year edition of Morrowind on the original xbox, the version which came with bloodmoon and tribunal. Dear lord I think I lost about 400 or more hours into that game and never actually finished the main story line of it... but I had explored every single inch of the map and sold everything on the overworld to make gold for myself. I done the same thing more recently in fallout 3 that was another amazing bethesda openworld game that you could lose your life to. at least I have

to tell me stop playing that... altho I still sold everything for money from the overworld and collected pretty much every item from each town and cave to hoard... well over 350hours lost to fallout 3.

When it comes to handheld backlogue tho... I recently got my hands on a pspgo and have kinda fallen in love with it for how tiny and featurefilled it can be, 16gb internal storage... first thing I do , install FF7 on it and now leaving the midgar slums, that's my issue I have so many new games to play but end up burried in nostalgia'ing games I've finished 10x over because I know I enjoy them.



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lets all note they stole / took the idea of the patented camera they paid 15million $ in damages and now there paying 1.82% of each 3ds sold to this date and the future sold and its estimated they will be paying a few more big checks to toemto because of other things they "borrowed" without giving any money back for them using the patent.

 

which right now as it stand 40million 3ds's were sold so they lost 182m+ 15m= 197m... thats quite a bit :d



boogie2988 said:

lets all note they stole / took the idea of the patented camera they paid 15million $ in damages and now there paying 1.82% of each 3ds sold to this date and the future sold and its estimated they will be paying a few more big checks to toemto because of other things they "borrowed" without giving any money back for them using the patent.

 

which right now as it stand 40million 3ds's were sold so they lost 182m+ 15m= 197m... thats quite a bit :d


Very odd user name to take here I guess you're a fan of the guy but I don't think anyone would believe that the actual boogie2988 wouldn't know which there/their/they're to use.

But yeah regarding your post, they are now paying back for the use of the infringed patent which is part of what made the 3ds such a beast, they'll continue to pay it on future sales too but at the same time Nintendo is Hardware/Software having 40m+ systems out there means they can sell a whole lot more games to a whole lot more people and it pretty much means 3rd parties would have to be nuts to not side with 3ds when it comes to making a portable game if they want to make the most back from their game.



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Well, we definitely have it overtracked here. This is as of Jan 10th, while we have it at over 12M for just Jan 4th. So, 500K+ overtracked.



3DS is definitely the big winner of th 8th gen, so far.



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Lawlight said:
If the system is a powerhouse, what would they call the PS consoles?

You mean Vita, right ?

 

Interesting no notice that people here only talk about overtracking when it´s about Nintendo sales.

The truth is, nobody can say for sure how well VgChartz is accurate, but we all can be sure that the 3DS is currently the best seller console. Period.