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I'm just wondering where all the outrage over Animal Crossing on the Wii having only one village was...
Oh wait, there wasn't.
Look, I get being disappointed, but a lot of you guys are coming across like whiny crybabies over a feature that's been a staple of the series since the very beginning.

You don't really understand the value of your collection until you lose almost all of it in a devastating house fire.

@Yorumi Look, we get it. You hate SW/SH.

None of us actually care.

God Almighty, BOTH my Joy-Cons drift.

The left one is not too bad, but the right one registers phantom inputs all the damn time. It's flat out infuriating to use, but I've never bothered to send in for a repair because I only have the one set, and I don't want to stop using my Switch that long.

Let it be known that I have the DK Bongos, and not a single compatible game.

Also, I love the e-Reader.

Big Dragon Quest fan here, and I blasted through the entire demo in a little over two days. What a rush! I'm counting down the days till September 27th.

Prior to my Switch Joy-Con drift issue, I only had a problem with one piece of hardware.
The top screen on my Hyrule Edition New 3DS XL crapped out about four or five months after I got it. To this day I don't know the exact cause, but it was still under warranty, so all I had to do was pay shipping and send it off to Nintendo, and it came back a couple of weeks later all fixed up and no charge to me. It's since continued to work great for three years. As an aside, Nintendo customer service is some of the best I've ever experienced.

My left one drifts intermittently. Happens really bad in BOTW and Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

I want the game, and I'm not outraged or anything... Mostly disappointed and utterly bewildered.
GF is doing a really crappy PR job right now, and frankly, their excuse for not allowing Pokemon transfers just rings entirely too hollow to be true.
What is the point of Home?

Still doesn't show up in North America.

@SMW I still can't get the update to show up, either, a full 24 hours after sites started talking about it, so I don't think it's actually live, yet, regardless what other people are claiming.

My Wii U flat out refuses to update? Is it broken?

@Terrible_Majesty Oh no, it's still up. The Wii U and 3DS Eshops are both intertwined, and one cannot be shut down without the other, and it seems like Nintendo intends to keep the 3DS Eshop going for at least a couple more years, so the Wii U one will stick around at least as long.

@Terrible_Majesty I do.

@NintendoByNature I just got a Wii U recently, too! These discounts definitely appeal to me, but I can understand the disappointment from other people.

Seriously, when did Europe start getting better things than America?

Europe is supposed to get the left over scraps.
Come ON, Nintendo.

This is not the first time the EU My Nintendo shop has gotten real, physical products, that never showed up in America.
In fact, this is like the third time, and I'm getting fed up with it.

Oh...my...God...
This looks AMAZING. PLEASE let it come to America. PLEEEEEEAAAAASE. I'm begging you! TAKE ALL MY MONEY. TAKE IT!!!!

@Heavyarms55 That's why I went ahead and bought a pre-owned Wii U. Got tired of waiting for Paper Mario on the Switch, so now I'm playing it on the Wii U.

I have to chime in, too.
I remember seeing a 3DS in person for the first time in 2011 at a Best Buy. It was playing a demo of Pilotwings Resort, and my mind was BLOWN by the glasses-free 3D. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, and I knew right then that I had to have one. Unfortunately, I couldn't afford one, so I had to wait four long years to finally get my hands on it, and boy, am I glad I did.
Christmas, 2015, and my big Christmas gift from my parents was a gold Gamestop exclusive Hyrule edition New 3DS XL, and boy... That baby was, and still is, a beauty. (It's got a bit of wear on the hinges from three years of constant use, but the Triforce design still looks gorgeous.)
It's my favorite handheld of all time, and I still carry it with me EVERYWHERE. That's three years and counting of having it with me at all times. I consider it indispensable.

My hot take is that Nintendo is keeping the 3DS around because they've realized parents aren't buying a Switch for each of their kids, the same way they did with the DS and 3DS, and so Nintendo is trying to figure out a way to hold onto that still fairly lucrative kid to preteen market.

My prediction is sometime within the next year the penny will drop, and Nintendo will reveal some new kind of more portable and cheaper handheld ONLY device in an attempt to keep that market.

We shall see, though.

@grupvilla That's the thing, though. At this point, it's dirt cheap to put things on 3DS. It requires very little effort, and I can assure you, it's definitely not taking away that many people from Switch development.

The biggest argument everybody has is that it's taking people away from the Switch, but it's actually not. For every one person working on the 3DS, there's still ten people working on the Switch.

Anyway, I don't argue that the 3DS is dying, but it's not totally dead. I think it can last through the end of this year at least.

Okay, enough with the "I would have preferred X game on the Switch."
It's getting old.
Did you ever stop to think that Nintendo simply doesn't WANT to put that game on the Switch, and therefore, if it wasn't on the 3DS, it wouldn't exist at all?

@wazlon If it lasts anything like the WiiShop, then it'll be around for about a decade or more. I highly doubt the 3DS Eshop will close anytime soon.

@Ponyo404 Amen to that. I don't think these guys realize just how cheap it is to develop for the 3DS. Nintendo can keep tossing ports and other things they don't want to expend the energy to put 'em on the Switch with for years.

@Nintendofan83 God, that's insane. Here in the US systems and games are dirt cheap. The cheapest 2DS can be had here for as low as $79.99.

My main issue with the Switch is this:
It's a great replacement for the WiiU.
It is NOT as great a replacement for the 3DS.
The Switch is absolutely an upgrade in every way over the WiiU. Better games. Portability...
But it's almost like a downgrade with regards to the 3DS. Less portable, higher price, worse battery life, no backwards compatibility, no proper Virtual Console, no internet options, no Netflix, no dual screen, worse touchscreen....

I love the Switch, don't get me wrong. And I do agree that consolidating the home and handheld markets at long last is a good idea.
As someone who never had a WiiU, I love it's home aspect.

But as someone who loves handheld gaming, ADORES my 3DS, and still carries it with me everywhere I go... I just can't help but feeling like I've been

I actually love the 3D, but I don't mind if that goes away.

What I do mind is the dual screen going away. The dual screen nature of the DS/3DS lends itself to all kinds of unusual and interesting types of games that the Switch doesn't really lend itself to very well.
I love the touchscreen interface on the 3DS, too, but I absolutely hate the Switch's touchscreen functionality. It's subpar and less responsive. I'm even gonna miss that stylus, too. I HATE using a touchscreen keyboard on the Switch without a stylus. It's so hard to type on that thing.

PLEASE, Nintendo, I'm begging you... Give me a Switch stylus.

I get the 3DS is old. I get that it's dying. Yes. We know.

You know what my problem is?

The Switch isn't a replacement for dual-screen gaming, and when the DS/3DS line is gone... So are a LOT of unique types of games. And if that doesn't bother you, then there's something wrong with you.

I truly don't see how a game like Etrian Odyssey can even work on the Switch, and I predict that series will go completely dormant after 3DS.

You know what would have been nice?

If the d*** sale had been available in North America.

It'll never be as stable as the 3DS. That handheld is practically the Rock of Gibraltar, it's THAT stable.

Nice try, Nintendo, but there will never be anything as stable as the 3DS.

I do have a question for everybody here who's against ROMs and pirating, though.

If a game is completely impossible to acquire, in any legal manner, whatsoever, completely impossible to purchase on Ebay, and will never be released, ever again, for any reason, is it wrong to distribute a ROM of it?

Before you say this is a ridiculous example, I shall point out the Satellaview, which was a Japan only satellite based game streaming service, and its games are completely impossible to obtain legally.

Still waiting for an answer to this question.

Off topic, but can any of you guys tell me how to switch this site back to the mobile version?

The real fact is... Emulation is the future.
Much as I hate to admit it, original hardware just won't last forever. It can't. Consoles break, disks rot, carts fail eventually.

There will come a time in the not so distant future in which ROMs and emulators will become the only way to go to keep retro gaming alive, and the sooner all you prudes (and Nintendo, too) realize it, the better.

And this doesn't even begin to cover games that were programmed but never released at all.

@Seacliff That's very true. There are a myriad of legitimately rare games out there for many consoles, that had only hundreds, or maybe a few thousand copies released, that are basically impossible to acquire, because all the super rich collectors out there already have them, and they never turn up for sale.

I do have a question for everybody here who's against ROMs and pirating, though.

If a game is completely impossible to acquire, in any legal manner, whatsoever, completely impossible to purchase on Ebay, and will never be released, ever again, for any reason, is it wrong to distribute a ROM of it?

Before you say this is a ridiculous example, I shall point out the Satellaview, which was a Japan only satellite based game streaming service, and its games are completely impossible to obtain legally.

@DTFaux On the contrary, I've heard from multiple game devs and programmers recently who have no issue at all with their older games being distributed as ROMs now, because they're otherwise in some cases extremely difficult or even impossible to acquire in any legal way.

Forgetting all the "Hurr durr, Piracy is eviler than Nazis" crap, what Nintendo is doing is just shockingly anticonsumer. It was much better in this regard when Iwata was still president, and I firmly believe he would never have allowed a service this shoddy to get out the gate without MAJOR restructuring. His two successors have clearly shown they just don't care what their own customers actually WANT.

@steventonysmith I have a f***ing job, idiot. Still can't afford one, because that's too damn expensive for 30 year old technology that should be dirt cheap if it weren't for all the fanboys wanting one. How about you f*** off while you're ahead.

@steventonysmith Do you know how much an EFFING SNES GOES FOR? Just shut up.

@Crono1973 They aren't there. Nintendo couldn't even be bothered to recreate proper digital manuals for the games, some of which practically REQUIRE a manual to even understand in the first place.

@BulbasaurusRex Dude, here's a heads up: The Mother 3 fan translation literally could not have existed in the first place without a downloaded ROM. In fact, virtually no fan translation of any Japanese exclusive game can be created without a ROM being downloaded somewhere.

By your logic, then, fan translations cannot be allowed to exist. They just can't.

@SomeBitTripFan You've hit the nail on the head.

@PanurgeJr Dude, I'm ignoring you now, because I'm tired of you. Ta-ta.

@BulbasaurusRex Sure, fine, we, as gamers, are not entitled to play every game ever made. Fine. I mean, yeah, that's true... But so what?

We're just supposed to go "ho-hum, I can't speak Japanese, guess I'll never play Mother 3, because I'm not entitled to ever be allowed to play it."

That's about the most stupid thing, ever. Sorry, but it is.

@PanurgeJr And get over yourself, too.

@Syrek24 Just shut the f*** up. Nobody cares what you have to say. Quit being a d*** white knight, get off your high horse, and get over yourself.

@KryptoniteKrunch It comes down to one thing for me: While I'm not against emulating, and in fact encourage it, I myself do not really care to emulate. I don't really have a good set up for it, don't have the technical know-how to tinker around with a Retro-Pie, and don't particularly enjoy emulating Nintendo games on my PC.
Basically, I like to take the path of least resistance, and that path, for me at least, is either Virtual Console, or actually owning the original hardware.
If Nintendo would just stop being so obtuse about releasing their own games beyond the NES on the Switch, without all the online hoops you gotta jump through, that would be a big win-win for everyone all around.

@Seacliff Don't even get me started on Paper Mario TTYD. That game frequently goes from anywhere between $70 to $100. Sheesh.