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As we all know it's usually every 5-7 years till a new console comes along.
Thing is Nintendo seems to be trying to shorten generations between consoles.
With Nintendo's immediate release of the N3DS, only after 3 years after the 3DS was released.
Beforehand the DS had 7 years with 3 revisions that's nothing more than case design & off the shelf updates.

The N3DS on the other hand proving itself to be a fully fledge successor to the 3DS, yet it's release is at least a couple of years sooner than normally expected.

Think of it this way once a console been released a couple of years & have plenty of time for the systems catalogue to build up to choose from & lot of people tend to be ready to grab one themselves expecting another couple of years for left for some neat new releases.

Think of it this way, A lot of people just recently just grabbed themselves a 3DS & the very next day that the N3DS was announced.
It would put them off because a new generation means only a handful of new 3DS games is going to be released & after that It's all exclusively new games for this prematurely new generation system.
That means that they be missing out on a lot of games because of this shortened generation gap.


Nintendo should really make the 3DS a few more years worthwhile, not make a whole new system too soon.

kawaiipikachu wrote:As we all know it's usually every 5-7 years till a new console comes along.
Thing is Nintendo seems to be trying to shorten generations between consoles.
With Nintendo's immediate release of the N3DS, only after 3 years after the 3DS was released.
Beforehand the DS had 7 years with 3 revisions that's nothing more than case design & off the shelf updates.

The N3DS on the other hand proving itself to be a fully fledge successor to the 3DS, yet it's release is at least a couple of years sooner than normally expected.

Think of it this way once a console been released a couple of years & have plenty of time for the systems catalogue to build up to choose from & lot of people tend to be ready to grab one themselves expecting another couple of years for left for some neat new releases.

Think of it this way, A lot of people just recently just grabbed themselves a 3DS & the very next day that the N3DS was announced.
It would put them off because a new generation means only a handful of new 3DS games is going to be released & after that It's all exclusively new games for this prematurely new generation system.
That means that they be missing out on a lot of games because of this shortened generation gap.


Nintendo should really make the 3DS a few more years worthwhile, not make a whole new system too soon.

They're making the New 3DS for convenience, in regards to not requiring the Circle Pad Pro and Amiibo adapters, as well as more effective 3D and faster speed/improved stability. However, as we all know it, Nintendo is the Apple of traditional gaming (especially on handhelds).

kawaiipikachu wrote:It would put them off because a new generation means only a handful of new 3DS games is going to be released & after that It's all exclusively new games for this prematurely new generation system.

This is what remains to be seen. We don't know how many upcoming games are going to be released exclusively for N3DS, and how many are just going to be 3DS games that are also compatible with the new system.

Kong Wen wrote:

kawaiipikachu wrote:It would put them off because a new generation means only a handful of new 3DS games is going to be released & after that It's all exclusively new games for this prematurely new generation system.

This is what remains to be seen. We don't know how many upcoming games are going to be released exclusively for N3DS, and how many are just going to be 3DS games that are also compatible with the new system.

Definitely a wait and see situation. I`m sticking with my guns and hoping that there will be more 3DS games than new 3DS, but who knows. I hope we see more games like Smash Bros. and MH4U which benefit from playing on a new 3DS, but are perfectly playable on the regular one.

Kong Wen wrote:

kawaiipikachu wrote:It would put them off because a new generation means only a handful of new 3DS games is going to be released & after that It's all exclusively new games for this prematurely new generation system.

This is what remains to be seen. We don't know how many upcoming games are going to be released exclusively for N3DS, and how many are just going to be 3DS games that are also compatible with the new system.

Should expect Nintendo to get developers to take full advantage of the N3DS extra hardware meaning most N3DS games are probably be straight out exclusives.

I can't imagine Dual mode graphics system without having 2 slightly different versions of the same game on the Card So graphics wise I can't even see how a GameBoy Colour/Super GameBoy style dual mode game would work.
Sure load times can be improved similar to smash bros but I can't imagine developers spending money getting new dev units just to do that.
I can only imagine most N3DS games be exclusive's.

kawaiipikachu wrote:

Kong Wen wrote:

kawaiipikachu wrote:It would put them off because a new generation means only a handful of new 3DS games is going to be released & after that It's all exclusively new games for this prematurely new generation system.

This is what remains to be seen. We don't know how many upcoming games are going to be released exclusively for N3DS, and how many are just going to be 3DS games that are also compatible with the new system.

Should expect Nintendo to get developers to take full advantage of the N3DS extra hardware meaning most N3DS games are probably be straight out exclusives.

I can't imagine Dual mode graphics system without having 2 slightly different versions of the same game on the Card So graphics wise I can't even see how a GameBoy Colour/Super GameBoy style dual mode game would work.
Sure load times can be improved similar to smash bros but I can't imagine developers spending money getting new dev units just to do that.
I can only imagine most N3DS games be exclusive's.

I think developers will be much more willing to appeal to the 40 million 3DS owners over the new 3DS ones. It sounds like it's not too much of a hassel to offer new 3DS support to 3DS games - WayForward have said that when the new 3DS comes out they're going to update Shantae and the Pirates Curse to take advantage of the new 3DS.