I never cared much for Nintendo's offerings but the 3ds is so disappointing in basically every way that matters to me. I wonder how history will remember it and when people will really start turning on it.
Library: DS, for now
Hacked + DSTWO+: 3DS, all the things that can be done, and so many games "crazy cackeling"
Fair. The 3D part obviously is the new feature, but fair. But nothing wrong with it.Nintendo just tried to refurbish and push out what could amount to "revisions" of their existing systems this gen.
DS > 3DSD
Wii U a revision of Wii? No. Just no. The naming only was used for helping the sales figures (see Yoshi's Island which is marked as Super Mario Land 2).Nintendo just tried to refurbish and push out what could amount to "revisions" of their existing systems this gen.
Wii > Wii U
I guess they will continue to make handhelds for a long time. Therfore I think we will see a handheld topping the DS library someday.Do you think they can outpace the DS and build up another legendary library, or are those days behind us?
Wii U a revision of Wii? No. Just no. The naming only was used for helping the seal number (see Yoshi's Island which should be Super Mario Land 2).
I guess they will continue to make handhelds for a long time. Therfore I think we will see a handheld topping the DS lib someday.
Next handheld.Since you mentioned history, what do you think Nintendo's next handheld will be? Do you think they can outpace the DS and build up another legendary library, or are those days behind us?
Next handheld
My hope.
Flagship android device. Them going third party developer, along with said flagship and maybe controllers (I don't think they make great controllers, they don't necessarily make bad ones though and more baseline acceptable controllers is nice).
My expectation.
At this point the NX is still a massive question mark but ignoring that I imagine they have another round of slightly tarted up version of the handheld what came before in them before something radical happens. Some call the GB/GBC a portable NES, the GBA and DS a portable SNES and this I guess means the 3ds is the portable N64.
Library to rival the DS. Android and IOS are maturing and have a lot of the devs that made the things I liked on the GBA and DS so I am looking to that, despite not having anything worth speaking of there. I truly do not care about most Nintendo first party and captive dev stuff, with the exception of Advance Wars and Starfy and both of those are pretty dead at this point. Time and time again though when I was doing things like https://gbatemp.net/threads/links-to-various-gbatemp-features-over-the-years.352851/ I would do a "where are they now" (even if only for myself) and Android and IOS were where it was at for a lot of those devs. "but the shovelware", what of it? Get a decent filter for the store and it matters not.
I would rather it be for a really nice and open platform but there is optimism and there is drug induced break from reality levels of optimism.
The GBA SP AGS-101 is Nintendos best handheld. It is compatible with all gameboy games and has a screen that still looks awesome today. All it's missing is the headphone jack.