Tanya Valdez writes: Nintendo finally announced the release of the New Nintendo 3DS in North America, during the first Nintendo Direct of 2015 that was streamed two days ago. While ours are going to be only available as the XL version and in only red or black, Japan's New Nintendo 3DS is available as the XL and as the smaller version. Nintendo has not announced their plans to release this version here in the states.
North American fans are outraged by some of the business decisions that Nintendo of America is making.
GameStop has a trade-in deal for those who want to trade in their 3DS or 3DS XL toward the purchase of the New 3DS XL. Usually, when someone takes a system to trade-in, or if they sell it online, they usually need to include the power adaptor.
We have reached out GameStop to find out if this is the case, since the New 3DS XL does not come with one.
Game developers have already started to confirm that they will support the Nintendo Switch 2 with their future titles.
Hanzala from eXputer: "As Nintendo takes out 20 years' worth of stuff from Garry's Mod, I watch in shock, thinking why it continues to hurt and discourage its fans."
The irony that some of the most disgusting business practices come from companies like Disney or Nintendo, i can't even begin to understand what terrible damage was Garrys Mod making to Nintendo bottom line, imho they're getting pretty nervous about where they're heading in the future, handhelds are no longer something exclusive to Nintendo, from Steam Deck to many others, now you can play the latest games and pay a fraction of the price on Steam sales, so it's up to their exclusives, which just on their own would make hard to justify purchasing a closed overpriced hardware with outrageous price policies (Super Mario Odyssey is still 60 euro 6 years later!), and as a home console they're always underperforming compared to Sony or Xbox.
i cam guarantee you, that their exclusives alone is what drives switch sales. they sell in the 10s of millions of copies.
nintendo created their franchises to be sort of nostalgia driven, exclusive only on nintendo.
people will always buy the pkmn games as they always bring in new younger fans amd is family friendly
mario kart, the same thing, mario games in general.
zelda games are system sellers. animal crossing for the casual gamers.
nintendo doesnt need third vame devs essentially. they made sure with the switch and the limitations that they looked more to pc ps and xbox.
its sad, but nintendo is more than fine with what they're doing. they positioned themselves to appeal to the more casual gamers.
but to your point, im not sure why they're doing this rly.
Look at how they handled Nintendo games being streamed or uploaded on YouTube in the past. They killed Yuzu and Citra even when they had nothing to do with ToTK being leaked, not to mention it was basically unplayable on emulation the week it was leaked. Smash Bros tournament, that was fairly recent. They shut down their online services without any care for purchases made. I bought a switch after skipping their last 2 consoles and handhelds but I don't plan on buying anything Nintendo in the future. They take things to the extremes, they legitimately hate their fans. They're honestly right up there with the likes of Acti, EA, and Ubi, only difference is that they disguise themselves as being family friendly all the while being shady.
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
I actually think they will release it, just didn't announce it for three reasons: one, to not confuse. The XL model has replaced the original on store shelves already. The "New" ones will eventually replace even those. They have a 3DS XL and 2DS in USA stores so they are trying not to confuse. Second, supply and demand. The New XL (or LL in Japan) outsells the smaller "new" version 2:1 in Japan and I am sure the current XL accounts for 90% of NA sales. They want to figure the demand for it or simply don't have enough supply of smaller ones for USA launch. Three, hype. Hype and things like this article describes sells systems.
Heck, I'm trying hard to resist it already and all this talk is making me want a "New" one. :)
The overwhelming demand for regular models it's just silly. Why can't people stick with the XL one or better yet, just wait for the arrival of the model they want, because it's obvious that, eventually, Nintendo will distribute them.
I'd rather have the AC Adapter with the system first. It's super cheap for Nintendo and the money they save for not putting it it's ridiculous.
I do think both should be released but i honestly would have never guessed there would be a demand for the smaller version....i still cant imagine why anyone would want the smaller one
idk what was so bad calling it "super" 3ds. this is proller the last hardware update for the 3ds successor.
Nice.