Nintendo working on 'future generation' handheld
Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto says that he's satisfied with the current model of the 3DS, and instead the company is thinking about ideas for its next handheld.
We saw some rumors circulating of a redesigned 3DS that could have debuted at E3, but Nintendo's press briefing came and went without a peep of any such thing. According to producer Shigeru Miyamoto, Nintendo is focusing on its next handheld instead of considering another 3DS.
"I really feel like I'm satisfied with the 3DS hardware as it is. I feel like it's the best for this generation," Miyamoto told IGN. "What we're thinking about right now is probably going to be for a future generation of handheld." He also said that the gyroscope could serve as a substitute for the second stick.
It doesn't come as much of a surprise that Nintendo is already thinking ahead to the next generation--most hardware manufacturers constantly have future ideas in development. But Miyamoto's response seems like a fairly definitive answer to the question of 3DS hardware revisions, at least for the time being.
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Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto says that he's satisfied with the current model of the 3DS, and instead the company is thinking about ideas for its next handheld.-
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The one major problem I have with it is that bright objects against dark backgrounds have very prominent ghosting.
Otherwise, everything else is minor and doesn't really merit a hardware revision.
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Ah....why would they say this? That translates to 'why bother buying the 3ds, when they are already thinking of the next one'
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While true, they never said something like that 1 year into the DS's lifecycle. New revision of the DS maybe, but not completely new handheld.
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The problem here is Miyamoto saying things in interviews that gets translated into "New announcement from Nintendo". Sure, he's thinking about making a FPS, sure, he and others and NCL are thinking about the next handheld iteration. These aren't announcements though, they are just behind the scenes looks into some ideas being kicked around. I wouldn't take this as news that Nintendo is going to make all 3DS's obsolete by year end, or even next year.
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I mean i guess I am glad the guy isn't bound by PR speak, but any american dev would have a whole script written up to answer this sort of thing like 'we are wholey supporting the 3ds for years to come while we are looking into the next next gen tech' or something.
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They were making comments a year or so after the GBA launched which turned out to be the DS. Formally announced at the 2 year mark and released at the 3 year mark. But they kept saying it wasn't the successor to the GBA, it was just... a 3rd pillar or something. Turned out....it was pretty much the successor.
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Hmm, yeah I was waiting for the revision with AT LEAST the dual thumb-pads built in and some better battery life. But if they're already making the next handheld, it'd better be backwards-compatible with 3DS games 'cause I already bought Ocarina of Time...
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I don't understand why this is always news. Nintendo has always started working on the next console nearly immediately after releasing the "current" one.
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"instead" of what?
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