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Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

gambiting wrote: post #29

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?

I'd assume there's probably only one line producing (at a single factory) as all the other ones have retooled to something else.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by saagarjha »

derefr wrote: post #37
Multicomp wrote: post #26

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

Nintendo has never really wanted to discontinue a platform. Their vision was always that developers could support old and new platforms together through funky cross-compact measures. • Did you know that the SNES’s CPU starts up in a “NES 6502 compatibility” mode, sort of like x86-64 processors starting up in 16-bit real mode? It’s fully possible to design and build a game entirely for the NES as a 6502-assembler code…

That said, it was a very cool form factor.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by gugagore »

gambiting wrote: post #29

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?

It's not the same, but ‘Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu’ (you can find it easily online) is a documentary about the last day that the New York Times used linotypes and hot metal typesetting before they switched to electronic/optical typesetting.

I think it's a wonderful, heartfelt, and technologically fascinating documentary. I recommend it when you have a half hour to spare.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by CDSlice »

perardi wrote: post #38

I wonder what the game plan is for offering these games in the future. The dual-screen setup obviously doesn’t map to the Switch, so it’s not just a simple eShop port like you’d have for an old SNES game. I am mostly thinking about Pokémon. They’ve got this rich new Pokémon Home system to transfer between generations, but that’s reliant on having functioning older hardware. Now, there’s a massive pool of functional 3…

Maybe they could something like what Drastic/Citrus does and have the two 3DS screens share the Switch/TV screen? I would say the main problem is that it has an effective resolution of 400x240 pixels on the top screen and 320x240 pixels on the bottom screen and the games were designed to look good on the really small displays, not blown up to a TV or even a Switch size display.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by Avshalom »

derefr wrote: post #37
Multicomp wrote: post #26

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

Nintendo has never really wanted to discontinue a platform. Their vision was always that developers could support old and new platforms together through funky cross-compact measures. • Did you know that the SNES’s CPU starts up in a “NES 6502 compatibility” mode, sort of like x86-64 processors starting up in 16-bit real mode? It’s fully possible to design and build a game entirely for the NES as a 6502-assembler code…

>>Did you know it was possible to create a GBC cart that would act as a fully-fledged SNES game (i.e. mapping a separate SNES game ROM) when plugged into a SNES through a Super Gameboy? Or to have “progressive enhancement” logic in the GBC ROM itself that draws full-color sprites (OBJs) when played on a Super Gameboy? AFAIK, literally nobody has ever fully exploited this, not even demoscene devs.

https://loveconquersallgam.es/post/2350461718/fuck-the-super... are the definitive posts on this madness

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by bloodorange »

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.

I got a lot of popular 3DS games from the used games market and likewise also sold off some of them when I was done with them. I never bought any at more than half the retail price of the game at that time. Of course, for this reason (and also to really own my games) I always preferred cartridges.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by coding123 »

Sorry about this, as it's an old argument that everyone here knows, but I wish Nintendo would stop making systems and just focus on their games on competing platforms. They do it for the money. So if I want to have the next Zelda, Mario/MK, DK I have to pay the 300 cost for the system first, then the price of the game ($60 on release day?) I mean, I get it from their perspective. Every Nintendo I purchase the number of games I buy for it seem to drip closer and closer to Nintendo only titles, essentially making it so my favorites really cost about $135 each. (Z/M/MK/DK + 299). I suppose that price is still worth it - not really - but what's killing me is this new thing they're doing where they just kinda stretch a title out for 9 years between the AAA releases. I don't consider a bunch of ports from DS style Zelda games as one of the titles I would buy.

Re: Nintendo 3DS discontinued after almost a decade

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Post by erinnh »

clubsoda wrote: post #34
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.

Facebook Market, Craigslist, and Amazon are severely overpriced for even DS games. For example, Pokemon Platinum, is selling used for about 120-150.

"Even" DS Games is not really applicable anymore really.

Games for consoles tend to follow the same cycle every time. They get cheaper as the current console gets older, then once the new Gen starts, they get really cheap and once you're about one to two generations removed, they get more expensive again.

It has been the DS's time to get more expensive for a while. PSP has also started to get more expensive, though not remotely as much as DS games, since the DS was more popular.

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