Do we know for sure the New 3Ds doesn't have a higher resolution? DIdn't they mention being able to watch HD videos?
Xenoblade announced for New 3DS
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Do we know for sure the New 3Ds doesn't have a higher resolution? DIdn't they mention being able to watch HD videos?
Dark_castle
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The frame rate...
Fix The Scientist
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Daddy likey
truestatic
Member
Nothing we haven't experienced before with literally every other new piece of hardware that borrowed the old hardware's branding, and even in some occasions where the two pieces of hardware had nothing to do with each other at all.
Interesting.
On second thought I'll stick to playing this on the Wii. Thanks Nintendo. ¬_¬
On second thought I'll stick to playing this on the Wii. Thanks Nintendo. ¬_¬
SweetDonuts
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Sweet! I wasn't prepared to pay £60 (or whatever) for it on the Wii.
The new second stick look like ass and placed on a really strange place... I dunno if it'll be confortable.
The R2/L2 trigger too. It's the only solution to have these buttons with this thickness, but I think it doesn't look very confortable.
The rest of the improvements I don't really care, the 3D (which I never use anyway), amiibo (is that like Skylander? I don't think I'll ever buy these), the processing power should have been towards the OS only, not exclusive games.
Well, I'll just not support them.
What's the problem here?
If you wanted a Xenoblade remake for the Wii U, they've been working hard on XCX.
If you wanted to play the old Xenoblade on the Wii U you can.
They put a little bit of resources into porting it for the New 3DS. It opens up the game to a new audience and will drive more people to buy XCX.
Win all around!
If you don't want to play it on the 3DS go play it on a Wii or a Wii U. It's the same game.
If you wanted a Xenoblade remake for the Wii U, they've been working hard on XCX.
If you wanted to play the old Xenoblade on the Wii U you can.
They put a little bit of resources into porting it for the New 3DS. It opens up the game to a new audience and will drive more people to buy XCX.
Win all around!
If you don't want to play it on the 3DS go play it on a Wii or a Wii U. It's the same game.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
God, I want to so go through the game again.
Not75Drops
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Pellegri Testament
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No, your browser is not loading the gif, it's current speed.
Grats to the lucky people who go out and buy the new system for this I guess?
lmao
Yes Sony too, but being portable wasn't the point, I more meant console wise in general. Imagine the rage if a "new X1" was announced with a little better specs and exclusive games.
And mobiles are different... You don't buy a phone to play games aimed for that phone in particular. Games aren't optimised to certain phones, (well iPhone perhaps, but earlier ones are seemingly ignored now). The beauty of consoles is you have fixed specs, so it can be optimised to the max, everyone has same experience, etc.
truestatic
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You don't want this hardware revision, but you'd be interested if they took a feature out? I don't follow. At any rate, someone in the Direct thread said (I believe) that Iwata said they already had teams working on gameS for the new hardware. Plural. I would be very surprised indeed if they stopped at just Xenoblade, though I doubt that it'll be the majority of their software that gets made N3DS exclusive.
Fair complaints, thanks for telling me.
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That's why I'm pretty sad about it.
Oh well, they still have time to (hopefully) improve it.
For me, the problem is not per se the Xenoblade port, but the precedent that is being created. How many other games will follow, that will not be able to run on the OG3DS because it's CPU is 5% (number out of ass) slower? Are people going to be forced to buy a new device for new games on basically the same hardware?
A new audience that has to buy another 3DS to be able to play the game, this is a very limiting new audience if that's the goal.
BlackBuzzard
Banned
That is just not gonna work.
Uncle Rupee
Banned
The way people go through mobile phones these days, no one should be surprised by this sort of thing.
Yes and apparently you should shut up about it if you think thats bad. People keep talking about the dsi, but it's not like the dsi had many major releases. A Xenoblade portable is pretty major.
Xenoblade Wii is known for being extremely rare or expensive to get. A WiiU port will be less expensive for anyone who gets the game simply because they already have the console. If they don't have the console at least when they buy a WiiU they have immediate access to XCX when it comes out. A 3DS port that requires someone to buy an entirely new system just to play a game that has a sequel coming out on another system that they might also need to buy is pure stupidity.
They can open it up to a new audience as well by having it on the WiiU. Anyone who doesn't have a WiiU can quite easily buy a WiiU and also then have access to the upcoming sequel. Rather than this nonsensical method that essentially means that the person not only has to buy a new 3DS and Xenoblade 3DS but if they don't own a WiiU then they have to buy a WiiU and XCX as well if they want to play that.
Bomber Bob
Banned
FUCKING YES
edit: so this game don't work on existing 3ds? fuck you nintendo
edit: so this game don't work on existing 3ds? fuck you nintendo
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
truestatic
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Well, the 3DS is a system called DS that has games don't work on "other" DS's. Gameboy Advance/Colour, likewise. If you're trying to draw attention to a dissonance between sharing a name, but not sharing games, then welcome to video game hardware, because every piece of it does this crap.
But.... that's exactly the reason why i don't play games on mobile phones and buy dedicated hardware. To not have to deal with this shit.
Pellegri Testament
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How can people defend any mobile phone developer and the fact that every single year a new revision comes out for said phone that has only slightly better specs? Because the money the masses still throw at them and their decision laughs at you and your "choice to not be like everyone else".
Aaronrules380
Member
So, did anyone ever bitch about gold and silver being exclusive to Gameboy Color? I mean, that was a far bigger franchise as well
The_Darkest_Red
Member
I bought a 3DS on launch day and replaced it with an XL the day it came out. It honestly kind of pisses me off that Nintendo wants me to buy a third iteration of their system just to play a new game (and I don't think this is comparable to DSiWare).
Thankfully this looks like crap and I already played Xenoblade on Wii, but it's a troubling precedent. Not cool, Nintendo.
Thankfully this looks like crap and I already played Xenoblade on Wii, but it's a troubling precedent. Not cool, Nintendo.
It's over double the playtime of the original though!
MoogleWizard
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I just watched the trailer and that battle footage is slow motion, right? Seems like the CPU bump wasn't enough...
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lmao
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That's unfortunate but expected. After all we're talking about a game that made the Wii sweat to run it, I seriously doubt the CPU boost puts the New 3DS on par with the Wii.
Only Crystal was exclusive to GBC. Gold and Silver could be played in a regular Game Boy with no missing features.
truestatic
Member
I didn't hear any of it first hand, but I think it's a pretty safe bet that yes, they did just that.
The past apparently doesn't matter to these people complaining.
Orniletter
Banned
No, your browser is not loading the gif, it's current speed.
Thats not how the game looked on the niconico stream.
It was far smoother.
Uncle Rupee
Banned
The thing is, the GBC came out years and years after the GB had been around... so it wasn't as much of a shock as these newer iterations. By that point a lot of people who had a Gameboy were ready to buy a new system, whereas many people weren't prepared for the onslaught of GBAs, DSs, and 3DSs/2DSs.
The reality is that many of the best games on the 3DS don't require this 'new' CPU. Fire Emblem... Luigi's Mansion... Kid Icarus... etc etc. There will only be a handful of games exclusive to the 'new' brand. Look at the DSi era.
If you're worried about the precedent or 'forcing' people to buy new hardware for new games, maybe Nintendo should never have upgraded the game boy.
It's still a new audience. If one was on the fence about upgrading or buying a 3DS for the first time, they would buy this revision and have the game available as one of their choices. As it's a 'launch' game, there's a very strong chance of them picking it up.
It's either that or not having the game at all, on any 3DS system. Why want something to not exist?
Yes but a Wii U port doesn't exist. Complaining about a 3DS port because you wanted a Wii U port is ..... illogical. Maybe it's coming, who knows. But the 3DS version is here. Would you rather it not exist?
The fact is that this is a game that tests the 'new' 3DS' power, and hopefully will be able to drive extra hardware sales as well. If you wanted to play it on the 3DS.
Not to mention the 2DS which can't even be 2 years old yet?
truestatic
Member
If the footage they showed was any indication, I don't think you need to worry much about missing out on any improvements at all. Rest assured in your home console version superiority.
Or alternatively, it's the 3D-DD-S.
IntelliHeath
As in "Heathcliff"
Yeah, I agreed. I'm looking forward to pick up new 3DS but it made me wary about Smash 3DS Limited Bundle. I wouldn't buy it if it's NOT new 3DS.