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Nintendo's Big-Screen 3DS XL Meets Lukewarm Reception
MojoKid writes "Nintendo took the wraps off its new, super-sized 3DS XL handheld on Friday, but reactions have been anything but enthusiastic. The new DS offers a larger set of screens (4.88 inches top / 4.18" bottom), better battery life, and will ship with a copy of New Super Marios 2 but it's launching into a very different market than what the original DS XL faced in 2009. The 3DS XL's battery improvements aren't just icing on the cake — they're seen as remedying a critical problem with the current handheld. It also won't support the second circle pad added by the Circle Pad Pro, which implies Nintendo is ready to kill that peripheral altogether. The other major problem is that a larger screen isn't really what the 3DS needed in order to be more successful."
The old stuff was good! The new stuff isn't. 1990's NES / GameBoy rocked. So was Sega's Game Gear (although if you didn't have a car charger... ouch). Nothing today compares to the games released in the 1990's. Man we had Wolfenstein 3D, Jetback (1993 DOS game), Nibbles (A version of snake- QBasic game that came with DOS 5+), and Super Mario (Gameboy/NES). Doom, Quake, and those that followed never excited me. I was the only kid who didn't play Quake or Doom. I went to a computer camp for many years and I'd be the ONLY one not playing in the entire camp during our free time. Ohh and there was one more I liked if only for the fact it pissed off conservative nut bags. Duke Nukem 3D for those who don't know contained "pornography". It was basically dead naked chicks hanging upside down or something like that. The quality was so bad that it was more humorous than disturbing. For god sake- this was the generation that was playing games where you killed Nazis. Back in those days even eight year olds weren't censored to death (except occasionally for maybe some movies). You could actually get into an R rated movie without an adult. Now you have the religious nuts telling parents they're bad parents if they let there kid see an R rated movie- and god forbid if we use our legal rights (as business owners) and let a kid into an R rated movie (you should see the shit storm that results). YES- the state can't force censorship on businesses to lock out children from purchasing R rated games/movies etc. Parents act as if it's not there responsibility to keep an eye on things (and telling a movie theater not to let there kid into an R rated movie is handing the responsibility over to others). My kid shouldn't be prevented from getting into an R rated film just because YOU are a nut case.
What happened? I mean. Why couldn't we have just stuck to 1990's style gaming. It was awesome. The graphics might not have been great although the games were awesome.