Josie Campbell writes: "Nintendo's 3DS looks great in my bag but doesn't have many games I want to play yet. The 3D looks beautiful but its reduced viewing angle and incompatibility with horizontal book style gameplay is a real turn off."
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."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Danish from eXputer: "Nintendo has historically gone against player-made content and emulation of its games. This has done much to harm the company's image."
They need to stop announcing these mods and fan remakes until they're finished. Finish it, upload it, and then if Nintendo dmca's it tough shit. Once it's online, people can share it around, even if the original download gets taken down.
This is all coming from the mouth of short-sighted fandom and grifting madness.
No.... it wont. There is a clear defined reason why they don't. This is nothing new. Make your own shi7 from your own original ideas especially if you are trying to capitalize of it it. Duh.
Yeah, hire people that have zero respect or understanding for an established process. Wow. Yep. Totally makes sense.
That would be a real shame if it proves to be the case. I can certainly see why the 3D effect doesn't work with the 3DS held at any other angle.
Would a book game still work with the 3D turned off, though? Without the 3D it appears to be a regular DS screen.
Having said that, book-style games have always been something of a niche on the DS. It seemed to be something which Nintendo encouraged early on to sell the image of the DS as a book alternative to an older generation of players but which has gone with the wind...
With the demise of Cing (the developers of Hotel Dusk) we may not get any more games of that style, with or without the 3DS. It's a real shame.
I dae say for games that require you to hold the 3DS like a book they'll disable 3D. Its not like Nintendo have not already stated the 3D can be switched off for all games anyway.
What a pointless assumption this article makes.
It's the death of many things that made the ds great. For example, having two screens with different sizes will make experiences that requires 1:1 size weird. Think about Big Bang Mini, for example.
Also, the touch screen will not be the main point anymore. Remember great games like Elite Beat Agents, when the main screen is the touch one?. You play it seeing the touch, actively using the touch. If you see the games of the 3DS, they're all focusing on the 3D and the superior screen, and not the fabulous game-changing touch screen: Now it's just a big menu. Not a game input.
These things really worries me about the 3ds.
The 3D in handhelds (and glasses free 3D for TV:s) will only be fully enjoyable once we have holographic 3D. Holograms can be viewed from any angle. But we are probably about 10-15 years away from that. But it is good that they push 3D so the development for even better techniques are pushed.
"I found a setting that lets you disable the 3D function so that a password has to be entered to launch games in 3D mode. It's a nice feature to have, but I really think this should default to off so that parents or older players have to enable it as part of the setup."
Yes yes, brilliant idea! have the 3D set to off as a default on the NINTENDO 3DS.... The rest of the article is just as foolish and presumptive as this statement above. Don't bother