Many of the comments are from Nintendo owners who say they won't 'upgrade'. Such reactions are unimportant, in many ways, because you are already buying Nintendo games, What Nintendo really needs is new customers. They have shown they recognize that with the advert featuring the little girl whose dad gives her a Link costume. But the add did not show her happily going to bed with her New 3DS or even a 2DS. When I travel with my 3DS, I am often asked by kids who are the age that was once the once prime Nintendo audience what I have. In the US at least, when the New 3DS XL was introduced, the adverts all said 'Have you seen it?'. The answer, mostly, is no. I was on a bus last week in Seattle with a kid who had the only other New 3DS I've seen in the wild besides my own.
I rather suspect we have already seen a console that may work like the nx, in the NVIDIA Shield series. What is necessary for such a system, of course, is servers with low latency. But one can also download. And play with touchscreen, in some games, or a controller. And the price is low.
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Re: Talking Point: The New Nintendo 3DS is Yet to Have a Real Chance to Revive the Portable Family
Many of the comments are from Nintendo owners who say they won't 'upgrade'. Such reactions are unimportant, in many ways, because you are already buying Nintendo games, What Nintendo really needs is new customers. They have shown they recognize that with the advert featuring the little girl whose dad gives her a Link costume. But the add did not show her happily going to bed with her New 3DS or even a 2DS. When I travel with my 3DS, I am often asked by kids who are the age that was once the once prime Nintendo audience what I have. In the US at least, when the New 3DS XL was introduced, the adverts all said 'Have you seen it?'. The answer, mostly, is no. I was on a bus last week in Seattle with a kid who had the only other New 3DS I've seen in the wild besides my own.
Re: Soapbox: A Nintendo Fan's Hopes and Dreams for the NX
I rather suspect we have already seen a console that may work like the nx, in the NVIDIA Shield series. What is necessary for such a system, of course, is servers with low latency. But one can also download. And play with touchscreen, in some games, or a controller. And the price is low.