Gaming The 3DS is the king of vaporware...

[TripleSMoon]

Tho this means that unfinished builds could eventually leak into the wild <3

How often does this actually happen?

This isn't a rhetorical or loaded question; I'm just honestly curious.

 

[endoverend]

Flipnote Studio 3D for US...
hyped since flipnote hatena dsi shut down 4 years ago...
*cries*

 

[einstein95]

http://www.nesworld.com/mirror/nr.htm

Did someone say something about 3DS being "king" of vaporware?

 

[DinohScene]

How often does this actually happen?

This isn't a rhetorical or loaded question; I'm just honestly curious.

Developers aren't to careful about destroying their devsystems and beta builds.
A lot has leaked into the wild.
XDK's, DVT's even Alpha towers (computer hardware that exists a year before the console is even finished prototyping)
Mostly, the debug/dev hardware contains a lot of data on the HDD/carts.

 

[WiiCube_2013]

This. There is a serious drought of games right now and it amazes me how since launch, the 3DS has just as many cancelled projects as games available on the system. It's ridiculous how they like to take advantage of 3Ds owners hype.

The Ultimate Hype Bomb would be if they cancelled Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS now this is something it'd completely piss 3DS owners and casual customers because it's what they always wanted and then for Nintendo to take that away from them would've meant loss of sales and fans too (no more future Nintendo purchases).

 

[Purple_Shyguy]

Just HAD to post this.

ITS ALIVE!

http://www.siliconera.com/2014/11/11/rodea-sky-soldier-lives-coming-wii-u-3ds-spring-2015/

The new WiiU game even comes with the full finshed but unreleased Wii game!

 

[MyJoyConRunsHot]

...As well as info I got from an email from VD-Dev regarding Ironfall:

yes its still in development,
we'll communicate the release date when the game is 100% finished.
we stop communication with twitter/facebook because we have no time (we are a very small team),
and every hour is important now to finish the game

Some one on youtube(presumably emailed them aswell) issued info about an update around this month or next month.

 

[MyJoyConRunsHot]

Behold, the 355th cancelled 3DS game...
Metroid For The Nintendo 3DS Was In Development And Was Cancelled
http://mynintendonews.com/2014/12/1...ndo-3ds-was-in-development-and-was-cancelled/
Guess Nintendo honestly can't get enough Mario.

 

[TripleSMoon]

Behold, the 355th cancelled 3DS game...
Metroid For The Nintendo 3DS Was In Development And Was Cancelled
http://mynintendonews.com/2014/12/1...ndo-3ds-was-in-development-and-was-cancelled/

This news is recent, but the event happened before Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon was put into development, as evidenced by them saying it was scrapped in favor of Luigi's Mansion. Meanwhile, an interview with Nintendo after E3 this year reveals that they have plans for both 2D and 3D Metroid in the future. Maybe I'm wrong, but I have a feeling that a 2D Metroid would be destined for the 3DS.

 

[Nemix77]

Mega Man Legends was canned, Ironfall looks very interesting and makes me want to think what would come into fruition if Epic Games were to to work on a Gears like game for the 3DS.

Rodea the Sky Soldier is still on as far I know and looks very promising if the developers can tap into the New 3DS's upgraded hardware if more power is needed for enhanced versions.

 

[Phantom_User]

So many cancelled 3ds games

The MegaMan Legends one hurted a lot more

 

[Nemix77]

Mega Man was canned as series altogether on all platforms, no more Mega Man games until further notice from Capcom.

Besides there's so many 3DS games that are worth playing already out on the system, I can think of 30 retail games that worth playing on the 3DS (some of which you can spend 100+ hours on) and that's not mentioning eShop games, backwards compatible DSi games, DSiWare games and future unreleased/unannounced 3DS titles.

 

[Phantom_User]

Mega Man was canned as series altogether on all platforms, no more Mega Man games until further notice from Capcom.

Besides there's so many 3DS games that are worth playing already out on the system, I can think of 30 retail games that worth playing on the 3DS (some of which you can spend 100+ hours on) and that's not mentioning eShop games, backwards compatible DSi games, DSiWare games and future unreleased/unannounced 3DS titles.

If Legends was out, it'd be 31 games!

Damn you Crapcom!!

 

[Nemix77]

Regardless if the 3DS is the King of vaporware...it's still also the King of handhelds the competition is not even close.

No need for fancy HD graphics when you've got great software, innovative hardware and an all-in-one package in a handheld gaming console that's just fun and friendly to use for everyone.

But I'd really it if some more new games get announced after the New Year in preparation hype for the New 3DS release in North America and Europe.