Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

I knew that, I just wondered if it was for Europe as well. But it isn't ... yet...

I wouldn't worry about it happening any time soon, unless your country has a limited eshop.

I know. But I had plans to buy a secondhand 3DS these days, thats why.

@ThanosReXXX Well, carbonated drinks make up the majority of fizzy drinks imo, but anything that fizzes up your mouth also is. I don’t know, it’s hard to explain, but it’s a feeling.

@BabyYoshi12 Oh, don't get me wrong: I got the trouble with carbonated drinks alright, I'm just saying that where alcohol is concerned, there's very few carbonated drinks out there, safe for beer, bubbly wine, champagne and cider. Most other alcoholic beverages do not contain bubbles.

So, that's where my confusion about this comes from: how can something "fizz", if it isn't carbonated? That is also why I mentioned us perhaps each having a different understanding of the term fizzy. If you mean a strong taste or tang, or whatever you want to call it, then I think I got it.

Either way, I wouldn't hold it against anyone if they do or don't drink alcohol. As I mentioned earlier to @Zuljaras, each of us should enjoy whatever it is that we enjoy, and if alcohol isn't for you, for whatever reason, then that's perfectly fine.

@reporterdavid Luckily, the enjoyment of having and using a 3DS doesn't depend on there being an eShop or not. There's hundreds of cartridges that you can still buy for it, so the potential closure of the eShop isn't going to disadvantage you all that much.

The 3DS eShop ending is still a dreary sign for Switch though. Digital works because with Playstation, Steam, MS Store, etc, you know your purchases are likely to carry forward and continue being available more or less indefinitely as long as the company is still running. Nintendo right now seems to be alone in treating this as 1995 where the platform is EOL and the digital store just vanishes. That's a monumental strike against digital content on a Nintendo platform and another "Nintendo doesn't get online" meme.

Though perhaps with Switch they will change that old mentality. Not least of which because I can't imagine the next console won't be backward compatible with Switch, and Nintendo always makes their hardware at least one generation backward compatible, even physically, (Wii to WiiU, DS to 3DS, GCN to Wii, GBA to DS, GB/GBC to GBA.) Switch was just an odd transformation from old architectures to ARM and physical incompatibility.

@ThanosReXXX Depends on the game. A lot of 3DS games are rising in price pretty dramatically as of late.

I doubt 3DS eshop support will end any time in the next decade in Nintendo's biggest markets, though. The fact that you can apparently still redownload your Wii Shop purchases is telling.

Sometimes I wonder if there's high quality versions of PS1-era CGI cutscenes, or the companies just lost them on their old workstations? Or maybe they were originally rendered in 240p (probably not).

No relation to the first part of the post, what do you guys think about Brave Fencer Musashi?

I've been catching up on comics and reading Dune all summer in the downtime I've had in between prepping for uni

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@Ralizah @ThanosReXXX well lets wait to see whats going to happen.

@Ralizah That's why I said that it won't matter all that much. Obviously, there will always be the odd exception or two, but in general, being able to use or enjoy the 3DS definitely doesn't hinge on there being an eShop or not, since cartridges will always be available in some shape or form.

And any eShop specific services or games are only an added bonus on top of that.

@reporterdavid I'd say that sounds like a pretty decent plan. No need to worry about things that aren't happening yet.

About 3DS eshop games, i have Japanese 3DS XL and last time i saw from Japanese eshop, even there were some eshop games has been deleted like 3 years ago. Those games have retail as well but how long did they appeared on eshop, it was very surprising. There were some of 1 - 2 years old eshop games, after that they had been removed. Probably the games didn't sell well on eshop.

Okay, this is kinda off topic but since we're talking about 3DS, I want first party 3DS games on my switch so I can play them on my television.

@Dark_Magician
But, it seems impossible to change Dual screen of 3DS to single screen on TV.
It will be Wii U situation.

Except it's actually not too difficult to redesign that part of most games .... There's probably more work in other aspects of porting 3DS games to Switch, though

@ThanosReXXX "being able to use or enjoy the 3DS definitely doesn't hinge on there being an eShop or not, since cartridges will always be available in some shape or form."

That is why I have such a strong stance on the physical media. There are many indie games that were only released on the eShop and the same goes for the Switch but 100fold.

Thanks to LRG we can have some of that in physical form.

@Zuljaras And thanks to initiatives like boot9strap we will be able to load custom firmware and will still be able to also find and install all those officially disappeared/removed indie or eShop games, much like how it was done with Wiiware games for the Wii, which are also still ALL available for those that know where to look...

Pink lemonade is better than regular lemonade. Facts.