Nintendo 2DS .... WTF
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Setsuna1982
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Kid Icarus uprising on 2DS. Think about it
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From a parent point of view i think its a great design and bulky enough for the sloppy hands of kids. My 3DS has hit the floor more times than i can count while my 4 year old daughter was toying around with her Nitendodogs. I was planning on getting her a 3DS for her birthday next month, though i never felt comfortable with the 3D effect, i always tell her to turn it off in order to play on my 3DS. Also people tend to forget that Nintendo is a toy company, these new models (Fisher Price anyone?) have a very defined target in mind. I wouldn't buy it for me but i will surely buy it for my kid.
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I just have to ask...a 4 year old? With a $200 precision gaming handheld? No offense man, but that's just silly...
Shifting gears...this:
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WonderBread X Nintendo = 2DS
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A lot of my friends let their 2-3 years old kid playing iPad & iphone ................no kidding
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Design so bad it doesn't even appeal to a blind person...
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The voiceover narration is a bit unforgiving, almost verging on the suggestion that 2DS is dog food, and those who buy it at $130 are poor suckers.
I've demo'd the 3DS before in stores, and the games have never become comfortable to play with 3D turned on; I'm betting that significant feedback and market research prolly also suggested the same, otherwise Nintendo wouldn't have made the move to redesign and sell the 2DS. Sure, it might cannibalize the 3DS sales a bit, but the Nintendo DS sold 153M worldwide, whereas 3DS has thus far only reached 32M — a potential 120M that hasn't made the hardware upgrade.
The Nintendo 2DS is gonna do just fine, despite all the internet ribbing it's receiving a la the notorious tacophone.
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Hopefully it's region-free :P
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I think the design is stupid, but the fact that there is no 3D on the thing is a big bonus. If I had extra money laying around I'd be picking this up for my niece and nephew.
If it comes with the carry case, then I'd just as soon they left it out, and further dropped the price the ten or fifteen dollars I'm sure they think it's worth.
If it comes with the carry case, then I'd just as soon they left it out, and further dropped the price the ten or fifteen dollars I'm sure they think it's worth.
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http://www.barrelrollgaming.com/2013/07/end-region-locking.html#.Uh9ikz_TNZY
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One thing I noticed is that the controls are up by the top screen when they are normally at the bottom. I seem to recall some games really needing quick access to the touch screen, which works well with the original button placement. The 2DS looks cumbersome
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Sure, kids. With small hands. That being said, the control layout makes NO sense...
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One day they'll get it, we might not be around but one day
A month, a year, a decade, a century
One day
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It could take a millennium.
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You always have the option of researching and not buying those games then, the rating system also exists for a reason. People who get offended by video games are hilarious.
Region lock is stupid shit that should've died in the nineties.
Region lock is stupid shit that should've died in the nineties.
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Not when there is money to be made!
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I may place an order because I'm a Nintendo fanboy :P
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In the age that everyone has easy access to the web there's no excuse on people being clueless( or just lazy ) about a quick iPhone/tablet/android search to get what you need to know
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The comic doesn't make any persuasive case for removing region-lock other than "your competitors aren't doing it."
That's always been a sketchy territory to traverse, especially considering the demographic for Nintendo consoles rarely overlap with Sony or Microsoft consoles, when looking at the numbers. In the case of handhelds, reports of Sony retooling its PSP marketing towards women and children is particularly revealing. Even after taking those things into consideration, the majority with Nintendo handheld prolly won't even bat an eye at the region lockout — the language barrier is the most effective region lockout, so what's another hardware barrier?