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Nintendo fans that seem to hate the 3DS? "It's just a gimmick" discussion [roundtable]
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Now that the 3DS is out, and I've seen it for myself. (Though I haven't seen most of what it has to offer yet, I'll be seeing that this Friday when my friend brings over hers with SSFIV.) I thought we would talk about those who are skeptical about the 3DS... our fellow Nintendo fans that seem to cry out, 'It's just a gimmick!' and don't feel the same way most of us do about the system. It seems like the 3DS is facing the same problems the Wii and DS had during their launches. Both the DS and Wii were called gimmicks, but yet they both held up and are two of the highest selling consoles/handhelds of all time... yet... people seem to not remember that. I was watching T.V. with my friend the other day, the launch day of the 3DS, and a commercial for it came on. I started talking about the capabilities of the system and my excitement for it... and for some reason, he became hostile... angry... and I have no idea why, because he's a huge Nintendo fan like I am... What is it with this hostility towards the 3DS? Is it the price? The time of launch? I'm not sure if you guys have met anyone who has this unwarranted hatred towards the system, but I've seen at least two cases, and I've seen a few on the gamespot forums, but those are usually self-explanatory.... though there are still some from Nintendo fans. URL to share (right click and copy)
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03/29/11, 23:08 |
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MightyOwned said:Nintendo has been doing gimmicks for a long time now.
Everyone says that what they do are gimmicks, have no lasting power, etc. (see Wii's motion control and DS's touchscreen)
What happens?
Oh yeah, everyone is proved wrong and instead the companies who apparently don't do gimmicks (Sony and Microsoft) create the Kinect and Move and the NGP. (which has touch controls).
Everything runs on gimmicks. Gimmicks sell. I want to touch on this along with the 480i to 1080p comment. calling 1080p gimmicky is like calling more ram gimmicky, it's a natural progression of tech, 3D isn't the obvious next step in tech, as much as everybody would want you to believe. Motion control isn't inherently gimmicky, but it has a lot of potential to be. Twilight Princess Sword waggle was gimmicky, but Wii Sports bowling clearly isn't. The difference being it would have been just as easy to map the sword attacks to a button, and the game would play exactly the same. you replace motion controls in Wii Sports, and you've changed the entire dynamic of the game. So 3D is gimmicky, because it doesn't offer anything that changes the way you play the game. The only thing that's going to stop the 3D from being gimmicky is something that is impossible to play without 3D, and with the fairly limited 3D depth that the 3DS is capable of producing, I can;t see anything ever being 3D dependent. |
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