Is the 3DS at its end? I can't really find many titles that are to be released this year. (In NA/EU atleast)
Ninty have only recently released the "NEW" 3DS so I'd have thought that the 3DS has at least a good few years left.Is the 3DS at its end? I can't really find many titles that are to be released this year. (In NA/EU atleast)
It sells like hotcakes.
Handheld consoles are slowly but surely outclassed by smartphones - I've been saying that since DS times. I sincerely doubt that the 3DS will ever achieve the heights of the DS, the market is being cannibalized by smartphone development. People don't feel like carrying a device designed for entertainment when they're already carrying another device that does that and so much more. If Nintendo has two braincells that occasionally meet, their next handheld should in fact be a gaming smartphone. They seem to be heading in that direction judging by their latest plans of involvement in the smartphone gaming market.The fact that bothers me, is the lack of games for it. hardly any good titles planned this year
4 more years at most, then it will become obsolete (not that it wasn't obsolete day 1, but that's besides the point).
There's a substantial difference between a low-power system and an obsolete one and that difference is adequacy. Neither the 3DS nor the Wii U are adequate in the contemporary technological climate. A console doesn't have to be high-end, that's what PC's are for, but it has to be adequate - provide a reasonable balance between processing power and price point and be sufficient for contemporary dedevelopment. Nither of Nintendo's systems this gen utilizes contemporary hardware or low-level software solutions, both are miles behind the status quo and both were obsolete Day 1, the 3DS just happens to have a following of fans to counterbalance the glaring inadequacy of its specs.Why this bashing on the 3DS? Consoles and handhelds focus in games rather than in processing power. None of the 5 mainstream current-gen machines (PS4/XBO/Wii U/3DS/Vita) was obsolete day 1, even though computers outperform the PS4 by far for example.
The wii and ds were underpowered for their time and they still excelled. Adequate? What does that mean exactly? The mass market doesn't give a crap about graphics -- it doesn't take a PS4 to play Candy Crush and Minecraft.There's a substantial difference between a low-power system and an obsolete one and that difference is adequacy. Neither the 3DS nor the Wii U are adequate in the contemporary technological climate. A console doesn't have to be high-end, that's what PC's are for, but it has to be adequate - provide a reasonable balance between processing power and price point and be sufficient for contemporary dedevelopment. Nither of Nintendo's systems this gen utilizes contemporary hardware or low-level software solutions, both are miles behind the status quo and both were obsolete Day 1, the 3DS just happens to have a following of fans to counterbalance the glaring inadequacy of its specs.
We shouldn't really underestimate the controls though.Handheld consoles are slowly but surely outclassed by smartphones - I've been saying that since DS times. I sincerely doubt that the 3DS will ever achieve the heights of the DS, the market is being cannibalized by smartphone development. People don't feel like carrying a device designed for entertainment when they're already carrying another device that does that and so much more. If Nintendo has two braincells that occasionally meet, their next handheld should in fact be a gaming smartphone. They seem to be heading in that direction judging by their latest plans of involvement in the smartphone gaming market.
The DSi never caught on, as there are only two DSi-only games and both are about using the camera on since stupid way.The 3ds has some years left in it.
The new 3ds has it full life ahead of it.
Nintendo will start phasing out the old 3ds.
And replacing it with the N3ds.
Same thing happen with the fat ds, to dsi, to 3ds.
Stop blaming the name, the Wii U flopped because it's poor hardware that doesn't run contemporary games. The success of the Vita in Japan proves that the west failed to adopt it due to terrible marketing. The Wii was successful comercially due to a gimmick that quickly got old and a low price point - if the Wii U was sold for $150-200 it would flourish among soccer moms too. Look at the library of the Wii if you need evidence - 100 million selling dust collector. And just so we're clear, I own all of the consoles I mentioned so far. The Wii U is not a PS2 situation - the PS2 was *the* status quo, the Wii U doesn't come close.The wii and ds were underpowered for their time and they still excelled. Adequate? What does that mean exactly? The mass market doesn't give a crap about graphics -- it doesn't take a PS4 to play Candy Crush and Minecraft.
Vita is more than adequate and it floundered. I could go on...
You're right about smartphones succeeding because of their ubiquity. I mean everybody needs a phone and if it's there why not use it? Why lug an extra nintendo system that plays more expensive games (you missed that important point). That was the 3ds's shortcoming (and vita's). The WiiU's shortcoming was the name confusing everyone as just an expensive upgrade. They completely lost the casual market that embraced it's predecessor by releasing a system that nobody but Nintendo fanboys could distinguish on a shelf and had a gimmick (ugly tablet controller) that didn't inspire the remaining casuals that did notice.