Originally Posted by
Alan Heer
4. Pokemon is the same game over and over again in new regions.
5. What does GBA have to do with 3ds being tops
6. Nds was made on top of a gimmick. There are games that are great, but most just used the gimmick to survive.
7. PSP was more powerful and it only suffered because games were relatively unmade for it. That is devs and publishers job.
8. I believe this 3d phase will die down in a couple months when people decide they would rather play without the headaches, glasses or not.
9. 3ds will be more marketed to casual audience just like ds and wii is. Ninty has not changed.
10. Of course parents will buy the cheaper game. I knew a guy that would never spend more than five dollars a game. And he would always complain that said cheap game sucked. You get what you pay for. My nephew is more into games than even me and he rarely plays his ds because for one very few games are any good and two I can tell he isn't too fond of the touch screen. But parents buying more 3ds's does not make the 3ds better.
11. Gaming may not be about graphics, but that doesn't mean game devs shouldn't even try. I still play my snes, n64 gamecube ps2 and I emulate other older systems as well so I don't consider myself a graphics whore, but If you have ever played a game as large as fallout 3 you'd know a snes could not handle the size. I'm not talking graphically. It takes more than just a graphics card or whatnot for a game. there is also processing as well as many other factors. So a system that is far more powerful than another has a lot more possibilities. Another thing is that you only mentioned first-party titles. That has been Ninty's weakness for a long time. For some reason most 3rd party devs aren't serious enough about making a good game and that low par for quality has made ds and wii games suffer the most. The sad thing is is that they often take up the space a good game could have had for the wii/ds on the store shelves.
Here are some reasons why the NGP may actually win.
1. greatest hits. If a game sells enough the price will decrease creating further incentive for someone to buy a PSP2 and said game. Ninty has fallen behind here. Games released several years ago are almost full price still and many of them are top sellers.
2. Price. $250 for a handheld that has likely seen only small improvements besides the tacked on 3d or a handheld that you know is worth the price. It's like having a ps3, only portable. I have a ds lite from the last handheld generation and I feel the media playing abilities are greatly limited. Mp3s play fine, but sound quality is bad compared to an mp3 player. Furthermore the ds can only play files that are in dpg format. Movie files I have all seem to jump from 20MB to around 150MB. And then you find out the ds can't really handle the video anyway so video function is out. With Psp2, I could listen to all of my music and watch movies without enlarging the filesize and degrading the quality and framerate so it can catch up. Then I could play my games and not get hand cramps from holding the handheld.
3. Format. When games get ported form 360 and ps3 to wii, the game gets heavily butchered. Therefor if a game is on both, the PSp2's is likely to be more fully featured and the 3ds's will be more of a glorified demo with a feature that is really unnecessary.
4. The lesser of two evils. I am not a big fan of Sony, but I don't like Ninty either. Overall, I'd say Sony is the lesser of two evils. What's to say you won't be playing a game and you have finally gotten past a part really far into it and you haven't saved. What if Ninty popped a message that said "now updating" and your system gets rebooted immediately to update. Or what if your battery is to low and it updates running the power out while updating. Then you would have a bricked 3ds. Ninty wouldn't hesitate to brick it just like they didn't hesitate to brick all of those unmodded wiis (they were unmodded because smart modders usually don't update for just this reason unless it's deemed safe).
5. games. Those titles you mentioned were first-party titles. Ninty has always had some problems with 3rd party games besides the usual licensed games. Ninty's games also seem to be watered down when ported form other systems. Zelda has been good except PH at least(I haven't played st). That game is seeming way too easy, even compared to the non overhead games. There are zelda fans older than 7 and they would like at least some challenge. They don't have to be Nintindo hard, just harder than a toddler's zelda game. This brings me back to my older point about being marketed to kids. Mario has been good, but even he has been in a bad game or two (shudders at thought of cd-i). Also at this point, what direction does mario go. If only they would remake a certain rpg for the snes with mario in it. Instead we'll probably get another olympics game. metroid may be a good series (hopefully Team Ninja didn't wreck it), but Other M was disastrous. Fire emblem, you really can't expect too much yet over here in America when they've just started bringing titles over. I liked the radiance series. Never had too much of a chance to play starfox other than the zelda clone. Pokemon is as I said the same game again and again, besides they have just came out with black and white for ds so it will be a couple years before than come out with the next Pokemon repetition series. Besides, the series went downhill after the second gen. If those are the only series the 3ds will be counting on besides the occasional 3rd party gem here and there, then the library will be as bad as the wii's.
6. Gameplay. You said it yourself,the 3d will attract more non gamers than a quality game. That's the gimmick. Most game devs will be banking on the gimmick since people who don't play games will not know a crappy game when they see one. If it's a feature that is largely unneeded, then it's a gimmick. If the gimmick is the selling point then you can throw out any idea that many will take the 3ds' potential to it's limits when all they have to do is throw some 3d on a crappy game. They've been doing that for the wii for a long time with it's waggle controls.
