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Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by opencl » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 3:13 PM UTC

kawsper wrote: post #10

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #6

The small New 3DS is the last portable console I can actually fit in my pocket, and for that I still take it out with me instead of the Switch on some days. So much easier to whip out of my pocket.

I do still play on my PS Vita, and I'm still sad that Sony abandoned it quite quickly after it was released, for me it's a perfect portable "Risk of Rain" machine (although I've played other games on it too!), it's also cool that they've ported some PS1 games to it like Metal Gear Solid, I wrote about my experience here: http://kaspergrubbe.com/i-bought-a-ps-vita-in-2016-first-imp...

The PS1 games on Vita are quite odd from a technical perspective because they run in a PS1 emulator running inside of a PSP emulator.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by AdmiralAsshat » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 3:19 PM UTC

peruvian wrote: post #11

AdmiralAsshat wrote: post #7

Looks like it's finally time to grab all those games I held off on grabbing because my backlog was already extraordinary, lest I have to find them in a couple years on eBay at wildly inflated prices.

Most in-demand 3DS games have not been cheap in years. They've been pretty expensive due to low printing (Bravely Default, DQ remakes, most Atlus RPGs) for years now. I'm guessing Nintendo games are OK due to so many people owning them though. 3DS eShop might be a safe bet but aside from the usual downsides of digital, the games are tied to the system, not your eShop account.

There are some that remained in print, however, and so I held off on taking the plunge because I didn't feel like dropping $40 for Fire Emblem Echoes (for example), knowing it would probably be a year before I played it.

But knowing that the console and likely all first-party games will soon be OOP certainly lights a fire under me, as I'd much rather pay $40 for a new, sealed copy of the game than $70 for a cart-only copy of the game off eBay in a year's time.

Radiant Historia: Perfect Chronology evidently went OOP while I wasn't looking, and the Ebay price has already skyrocketed. Argh!

EDIT: And yes, I've got a couple from the eShop (Devil Survivor's 1 & 2 and Soul Hackers), but I prefer carts since they're not locked to my system/account. And who knows when Nintendo will decide to shut down the eShop, just like they did for the Wii shop?

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by gldev » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 3:22 PM UTC

At long last it can rest, one of the best consoles ever and kept the legacy of the DS going im glad i was able to experience it first hand!

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by gxqoz » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 3:24 PM UTC

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #6

The small New 3DS is the last portable console I can actually fit in my pocket, and for that I still take it out with me instead of the Switch on some days. So much easier to whip out of my pocket.

My wife was angry at me that I could fit a Switch into my pocket the other day. Although it's pretty cumbersome to carry it around like that.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by fullstop » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 3:27 PM UTC

optimuspaul wrote: post #2

seriously?! I just bought one now after putting it off for years

There are cartridges which allow you to load games onto a micro SD card. They can be used to load homebrew games or roms obtained from less than legal means.

I had one for the original DS and obtained ROMs for the cartridges that I owned. It was convenient to have them all in one place when traveling without having to bring a bunch of cartridges with me.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by Multicomp » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 3:28 PM UTC

Nintendo insisted that the 3DS was not being replaced by the switch, in the same way that they told me that the game boy line would keep going after the DS began.

Something tells me this is Nintendo hedging bets

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by kyoob » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 3:30 PM UTC

This is like when someone like Gerald Ford dies and I say, "Wow. I could have sworn Gerald Ford died 8 years ago."

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by JohnBooty » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 3:32 PM UTC

I'm nearly blind in one eye.

The 3DS XL was the first time I ever saw 3D.

In my life.

I don't just mean "the first time I saw a stereoscopic 3D effect in movies or a game console."

It was the first time I ever saw in three dimensions ever. As a human being.

It's a little bit hard to describe my typical experience with you, since I've never had "normal" version and I don't know what it's like. I would compare my life to playing a video game with a first-person perspective. You know how when you play one of those games, you're thinking in three dimensions, even though you're seeing the game on a flat two-dimensional television?

Well, that's my life. I see the world in two dimensions, even though I'm thinking about it in three dimensions.

But playing Zelda on a 3DS XL? Wow. I mean, it took my breath away. THAT'S HOW NORMAL PEOPLE SEE THE WORLD? You can just look at things and immediately know how far away they are? You don't have to move your head around to see a parallax effect to help your brain compute the distance? WOW. AMAZING.

I'm not a brainologist, so I'm not sure why the 3D system on the 3DS worked for me when nothing else had ever worked for me before, such as 1950s-style red/blue glasses. I'm still nearly blind in one eye, and the 3DS relies upon a lenticular stereoscopic effect that requires two eyes. It seems to me that it shouldn't work. But it did.

(Maybe modern VR headsets with stereo displays would work for me as well; I don't know -- I tried an early one in the 1990s and it didn't work for me, but obviously that was ancient tech)

Regardless, I had never ever experienced three-dimensional vision until the 3DS XL showed it to me. Thanks, little dude.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by gambiting » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 3:32 PM UTC

I always try to imagine what the final production run looks like at a factory for one of these. Is there usually some sort of ceremony for the very last unit rolling off the line? Or does it just run towards the end of the shift as normal, everything gets boxed up and shipped to retailers as normal, there just....isn't another shift after that? What happens with all the manufacturing hardrware?

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by mattl » Thu, Sep 17, 2020, 3:33 PM UTC

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #14

datalus wrote: post #9

Hopefully Nintendo releases the SDK? It's been a decently active platform for indie titles and homebrew games. I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think the 3DS is covered by the same NDA as the Switch in terms of toolchain/docs/etc. I believe you can find those after signing up for a developer account at https://developer.nintendo.com/

I can promise you Nintendo won’t do this.

The way things are going lately they’re probably already leaked.