No Paper Instruction Manual For Super Mario 3D Land On Nintendo 3DS

[Canonbeat234]

I still say w'ever to their deed on saving 'paper'. What about the all the plastic cases that protects your precious cartiage, CD, or whatever.

Nintendo didn't make any difference at all, they are using tutorials inside the game which they already had been before the DS. So their efforts are non-existant.

 

[Bladexdsl]

plastic is synthetic and easy to make trees are not

 

[prowler]

Digital manuals are nothing compared to the real thing.

Why do they even bother with a digital manual anyway?

better for the environment

haha it's a bit late to be environment friendly.

 

[Bladexdsl]

never too late

 

[cosmiccow]

It's never too late to be eco-friendly. I think it's great because I never read them anyway. Using up resources for stuff that's not needed is just unnecessary.

 

[Diamondred]

This is practically the case for Tetris Axis too.
It's instruction booklet is literally 6 pages, 6.

and also Zelda Ocarina of Time 3D. that wasn't an instruction manual: that was a big poster with instructions, xD. it kinda surprised me

 

[awssk8er]

I think I've only read the manual for a game like three times.

If it's how retro games on the eShop work, that'd be cool. When you press the home button, it has the option for instructions. (Might not be the retro games, some games do have that though).

 

[Pong20302000]

lol manuals

the 3DS has them built into game carts now

when on main menu u hover over icon and press X or something to do so and it brings up manual

i prefer to having paper one

 

[EZ-Megaman]

I oftend do read my game manuals but I wouldn't mind reading it on my 3DS. Reduces money coststoo so it wouldn''t be a bad idea to go a little eco-friendly

 

[chartube12]

+1 to Nintendo for saving the environment.

 

[Necron]

Yeah, lol, saving the environment. Mostly reducing production cost, but not the final price.

 

[shakirmoledina]

Is this a first time thing? never heard of it. retro classic collection (or similar name) on the ds said reading the manual is like cheating.
i always liked the manuals especially if they have character backgrounds and many images. its not too bad actually. everything today IS ebooks

 

[Ace]

Great, less trees murdered for entertainment!

Now, if only they ever decided to use less plastic for the cases....

 

[Snailface]

This is just one small step towards no physical presence for a game whatsoever. Nintendo's catching up with the times.

(I hope they take their time)

 

[DiscostewSM]

I will miss having the booklets for my newer games, but this is a step in the right direction.

 

[KingVamp]

Great, less trees murdered for entertainment!

Now, if only they ever decided to use less plastic for the cases....

I believe they said these cases are more environmental friendly than the old case they were using.

This is just one small step towards no physical presence for a game whatsoever. Nintendo's catching up with the times.

(I hope they take their time)

Nintendo stated something about that and they believe it wouldn't happen any time soon. (Basically of what they said)

 

[jalaneme]

sims 3 pets on the ps3 had a 4 page instruction booklet, batman arkham city hardly had anything in terms of a instruction manual, you are going to see more and more recently released games having less and less physical content as it moves to more online oriented with cloud gaming on the horizon too.

I will miss having the booklets for my newer games, but this is a step in the right direction.

i don't agree, so you are basically saying that it's ok to take away content that was normally there in the first place? god forbid what the wii U will be like.

 

[Necron]

sims 3 pets on the ps3 had a 4 page instruction booklet, batman arkham city hardly had anything in terms of a instruction manual, you are going to see more and more recently released games having less and less physical content as it moves to more online oriented with cloud gaming on the horizon too.

I will miss having the booklets for my newer games, but this is a step in the right direction.

i don't agree, so you are basically saying that it's ok to take away content that was normally there in the first place? god forbid what the wii U will be like.

The games will come in an ethereal way

 

[KingVamp]

i don't agree, so you are basically saying that it's ok to take away content that was normally there in the first place? god forbid what the wii U will be like.

They are changing the content, not taking it away, which they would have to program it whether than produce it.

 

[Zarxrax]

Meh, manuals have really sucked for a long time anyways.
I used to really enjoy reading the game manuals back in the NES days. Even during SNES and Genesis, they contained a wealth of great info. The manual used to be where you read the actual storyline of the game.
But somewhere along the time that we moved into 3d, manuals just started getting boring. More and more started being moved to in-game story and tutorials. Manuals these days usually just list the basic controls, and thats about it :\ So, no big loss.