A Word From The Future: I want one now. Also, due to the deletion of a couple of old pseudo-optimistic posts relating to life with The Worst Person In The World....That I Personally Know, about how cool it would be to be roommates and a lame project where I had to buoy his non-existent comedy skills, this stands as the earliest entry on my blog! Until I perfect my time twisting machine, of course.
Am I the only one who isn't really all that excited for the Nintendo 3DS? Maybe it's just because I'm not a wealthy person with metric tonnes of money to blow, but $250 seems a bit steep for a handheld with a ludicrously short battery life. Sounds to me like we're rushing into new technology a little bit before it's actually ready for wide consumption. It doesn't count as portable if I have to remain in one spot and play with the device plugged in, you know! And I hesitate to pretend like I actually fully understand such business things, but loading your software lineup with remakes right out of the gate seems questionable to me. "This new hardware is so advanced that it can even play marginally enhanced Nintendo 64 titles!" And, well, can't say I agree with Nintendo continuing to perpetuate the myth that the awkward and disjointed Ocarina of Time is genuinely a classic. Furthermore, seeing another Deca Sports among this first batch of games doesn't give me a lot of hope for the future. I'm not sure when, exactly, the powers-that-be decided that "casual gamers" were only willing to play shallow crap - like the Wii's endless parade of Wii Sports ripoffs with inferior controls, or these browser-based non-games a la FarmVille - but it's a trend of which I am not fond. They deserve better!
But, let's face it, I'm a nerd and I will eventually be getting a 3DS regardless. So, from that standpoint, I can't say that there aren't things I'm looking forward to. I'll always approve of more Paper Mario so long as it's an RPG, as opposed to a slow, plodding platformer! And I am intrigued by the possibility of the Game Boy Virtual Console. Of course, seeing as how the Wii's VC has mostly been dead for the last couple years now, I'd hope you can understand why this is not a huge immediate selling point for me.
Regardless of my scepticism of the New and Improved Virtual Boy II, I must admit that this is infinitely better than my initial thought, months ago, upon hearing the "3DS" name for the first time - a three-screened handheld? I....I don't know how that would work.
One only wonders what the Angry Video Game Nerd will say about this system when he reviews this in 20 years...
ReplyDelete...and what all those poor pedestrians will think of his unwelcome drunken ramblings.
ReplyDeleteI'm humorously implying that he will no longer popular in twenty years, and as such somehow will be forced into being a desperate homeless bum who rambles deliriously to pass the time, you see.
You're confusing him with the Irate Gamer.
ReplyDeleteI'm not really all that excited for the Nintendo 3DS! Though I am interested in it. Silly question: If it's more of an upgrade from the DSi than it is from the DS, why is it not the 3DSi? Maybe that would be too confusing. Is the screen big enough to call it a 3DSiXL? Try pronouncing that as a word!
ReplyDeleteI don't get the complaints about the shorter battery life. I mean, if you want to trade in your sedan for a pick-up truck, then of course it's going to take more gas! My beef about the battery is that it's the kind that's meant to always stay in the thing. I would prefer to be able to alternate between chargeable removable batteries, but maybe that's just me!
Anyway, I think I'd rather hold out for the 5DS. Imagine how awesome it would be to SMELL the action of a handheld game!
I really missed these semi-manic rants of yours! :)
ReplyDeleteI don't know that the sedan/pick-up comparison is really valid, in that they're still simultaneously coming out with new models of both sedans and pick-ups. You can run with whichever one you choose. It's not like sedans are being phased out, with only pick-up trucks being manufactured after that.
Mario is supposed to be a professional plumber. Do we really want to smell the lingering remnants of his day job?
If you liked that, you'll love the semi-manic rants I'm writing about DisneyWorld! But they're actually happy rants, if that's something that exists.
ReplyDeleteI admit it...wasn't the greatest metaphor. All I meant was that a more powerful version of something should be expected to require more...well, power, to run.
But surely it is still a choice in that the Nintendo DS being phased out doesn't mean you can't still play the games already available on it. And we knew they'd stop making "regular" DS games at some point, right?