Nintendo introduces upgraded 'New 3DS' models
Nintendo announced new models of the 3DS and 3DS XL in Japan this morning, with more buttons, another analog nub, and an upgraded CPU.
During a Nintendo Direct in Japan this morning, Nintendo announced two new 3DS models today, simply called the "New 3DS' and "New 3DS LL" (or "XL" to us westerners).
Forbes reports that both new models feature a small analog nub above the buttons, two more shoulder buttons, and an upgraded CPU. It can also support custom covers. Alongside the announcement, Nintendo showed a Xenoblade Chronicles game for 3DS that requires the upgraded CPU in the new system. It also recolors the face buttons and promises better viewing angles for the 3D feature. As the report notes, this all would appear to run the rather serious risk of confusing consumers and fracturing the system's user base.
The system is due out in Japan in October, and a representative told Eurogamer it wouldn't hit that region until 2015. We have no word on a North American release yet.
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Steve Watts posted a new article, Nintendo introduces upgraded 'New 3DS' models.
Nintendo announced new models of the 3DS and 3DS XL in Japan this morning, with more buttons, another analog nub, and an upgraded CPU.-
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http://imgur.com/e9P5u6F
The Nintendo software end still knows what it's doing but apparently the hardware end is a bit challenged.
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The 3ds just had a very large influx of users last year with a strong release line and the introduction of the 2ds. It's like they rolled out the red carpet right into a brick wall. The market for people who buy the 2ds is definitely not the kind that will understand that some games for 3ds released in the near future will not work on their console they just bought last year. Neither should they accept it.
Want to fragment and disenfranchise your userbase? This is how you do it. -
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The upgraded CPU is definitely a bad idea. Their userbase is way too small to fracture it right now. They kind of did this with the Game Boy Color, it had games that wouldn't work with the older game boys, but that was 8 years after the first Game Boy, and the install base was huge.
I just don't think a lot of people are going to be happy seeing games that require this new, slightly faster 3DS. Could build some ill-will.-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_3DS_sales
over 44 million units doesn't seem like a small userbase. -
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I remember a couple years ago that Nintendo should make a 3DS that has the Circle Pad Pro embedded, and I disagreed with them because because it would cause fragmentation in the user base, and now that it actually happened, I still think it's a bad idea. Being the idiot Nintendo fan that I am, I'm probably going to buy it eventually, cause I like the changes. It still sucks though. Hope they don't make too many games that requires the new model.
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i think this might be the nail in the coffin for nintendo for me.
this kind of fragmentation of the 3ds games market is not good. not good at all. it shows that the 3ds was badly designed from the outset. 3ds should have always had two sticks Nintendo lack of foresight is their downfall.
i wont be replacing any of our 3d's or 2ds's with this new one.
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