Official Nintendo 3DS, 3DS XL, 2DS, "New" 3DS, & "New" 2DS XL Thread.

**StriderKyo** · 21 Jun 2010, 10:40 PM

Originally Posted by YellerDog

I'm thinking next gen we'll be looking at a Nintendo "platform" as opposed to the console+portables+whatever setup we have now. The digital rights are going to be the biggest problem with continuing on the way things have been going.

Might not be "ONE CONSOLE FUTURE," but at least it'll be tidier.

I'm thinking Nintendo is business savvy enough that they're not going to reduce the number of things they can sell to you.

**YellerDog** · 21 Jun 2010, 11:08 PM

Oh, I'm not saying that they won't sell you five different pieces of hardware, they'll all be running the same OS/software though. The units will specialize enough to make one preferable over the other for a particular application. See: iPad/iPhone.

**StriderKyo** · 21 Jun 2010, 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by YellerDog

Oh, I'm not saying that they won't sell you five different pieces of hardware, they'll all be running the same OS/software though. The units will specialize enough to make one preferable over the other for a particular application. See: iPad/iPhone.

See, but that's the perfect example. Apple does that, but they still manufacture OS X on top of that stuff. I'd be surprised if they rolled the iphone OS & Mac OS together, even if they got the mobile one to the point where it could adequately run Mac OS software.

**YellerDog** · 21 Jun 2010, 11:57 PM

How much you wanna bet the next incarnation of OSX (OSXI?) is going to have fully integrated "apps"? They're moving towards a more closed platform, not the other way around.

**Bacon McShig** · 22 Jun 2010, 12:01 AM

http://japan.gamespot.com/videos/sto...0415519,00.htm

Resident Evil Revelations trailer that was shown running on 3DS units at E3, apparently all in-engine. Pretty impressive!

**Frogacuda** · 22 Jun 2010, 12:35 AM

Wow, looks like this can do some stuff. That looks better than most Wii games. If suspiciously better than the other demos shown (although inconsistent utilization of hardware is pretty common in first gen stuff).

**kedawa** · 22 Jun 2010, 01:14 AM

All the keynote stuff looks like garbage compared to that.
Leave it to capcom to show first parties how to use their own hardware.

**mollipen** · 22 Jun 2010, 02:51 AM

Originally Posted by kedawa

I'm hoping this drives down the price of the XL. I wouldn't mind one of those, especially if the 3DS doesn't do it for me when I finally get to try one out.

Actually, the price of the entire DS line dropped recently in Japan. Certainly not due to poor DS sales, so I'd imagine it has something to do with starting to set up for the entry price of the 3DS.