Nintendo is more focused on the next big machine than upgrading the current one.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/30720
Nintendo is happy with the 3DS just the way it is, Shigeru Miyamoto stated in a recent interview with IGN. Rather than revising what has already become a huge success despite a rocky launch last year, Nintendo is more preoccupied with planning for future handheld devices.
"I really feel like I'm satisfied with the 3DS hardware as it is. I feel like it's the best for this generation. What we're thinking about right now is probably going to be for a future generation of handheld."
When asked about the possibility of a new model with a second circle pad at some point in the future, Miyamoto was quick to respond that the gyroscopic movement controls make up for the lack of a second stick, an opinion he has firmly kept for some time now.
Miyamoto was quick to respond that the gyroscopic movement controls make up for the lack of a second stick
They're always working on the next thing.
I understand that, but why is he TALKING about that now?Probably because IGN asked. Miyamoto didn't say anything that hasn't already been established many times before. People are making mountains out of molehills. The news is that Miyamoto is denying the existence of a revision (which I find dubious but fine). How anyone took "we're working on new things" as "successor is coming soon" is beyond me. That's sensationalist click-bait nonsense. Drop the bait; take a chill pill instead.
Adding a second circle pad makes no sense, why do people keep asking for it? It would **** up developers, who now have to start making games for it when there was only a few games that support the CPP in the first place.How did you come to that conclusion? Since when do developers have to use every option available to them? They could cut 3D out if they wanted to. Not adding it in a revision makes no sense because it costs Nintendo more to make a separate CPP. Developers can just ignore the right circle pad if they don't want to use it.
If he's right this would be the very first time Nintendo has ever had a handheld with no revision whatsoever (unless you count the Virtual Boy, but that was just because the system failed).
I think this in a nut shell sums up why the 3DS did not get MW3 last year, nor has Black Ops 2 been announced for it this year. Does he seriously expect someone to be able to aim their sniper rifle by tilting the 3DS around?
If he's right this would be the very first time Nintendo has ever had a handheld with no revision whatsoever (unless you count the Virtual Boy, but that was just because the system failed).
And the Game Boy Color (and NO, the GBC was not a revision of the Game Boy).
They are never gonna add a second circle pad unless there is at LEAST 1 game that REQUIRES it to play the game. So far every game out or announced only supports the Circle Pad Pro, but doesn't require it to be played. The only revision I can think of that is really needed is a longer battery life, maybe fixing the screen issue some people have.
It makes me laugh when I see someone say 3DS Lite since any revision would not be smaller (which is why the DS revision was called DS Lite).
I think this in a nut shell sums up why the 3DS did not get MW3 last year, nor has Black Ops 2 been announced for it this year. Does he seriously expect someone to be able to aim their sniper rifle by tilting the 3DS around?
So.... umm... why do I have a copy of MW3 for my DS? There's no second circle pad *and* I can't tilt the 3DS around....
It makes me laugh when I see someone say 3DS Lite since any revision would not be smaller (which is why the DS revision was called DS Lite).Nintendo can make it thinner and there's room to shave off above the top screen/below the bottom screen. I expect a revision to be larger, but they can make it smaller if they wanted to.
I think this in a nut shell sums up why the 3DS did not get MW3 last year, nor has Black Ops 2 been announced for it this year. Does he seriously expect someone to be able to aim their sniper rifle by tilting the 3DS around?
So.... umm... why do I have a copy of MW3 for my DS? There's no second circle pad *and* I can't tilt the 3DS around....
It's not a first person shooter, is it? That's what he was talking about.
If their games are entincing you, the lack of a second analog shouldn't matter. The games play fine without it. The reason why the Vita (and by extension, the PSP) can't just use one is because Sony keeps trying to make console gaming on their handhelds. You know what's a big thing with consoles? Dual analog sticks. At least Nintendo makes a different experience with their games.
You know that the PSP only had one analog nub, right, and that that nub made for some less-than-comfortable gaming, right?
If their games are entincing you, the lack of a second analog shouldn't matter. The games play fine without it. The reason why the Vita (and by extension, the PSP) can't just use one is because Sony keeps trying to make console gaming on their handhelds. You know what's a big thing with consoles? Dual analog sticks. At least Nintendo makes a different experience with their games.
You know that the PSP only had one analog nub, right, and that that nub made for some less-than-comfortable gaming, right? A large part of my decision behind getting a Vita was to play my PSP games with a proper right analog stick for camera control (which has been quite nice, by the way).
The 3DS is getting there with software that interests me, but right now I'm only at 3 designed-for-3DS games that interest me: Castlevania - Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate; Resident Evil Revelations (which does have CPP support); and Kingdom Hearts DDD. The handheld will need more than that before it entices me enough to forget how much I really disliked playing 3D games with only one nub on the PSP.
Calm the **** down.
Hey everybody, remember when Nintendo said they weren't working on a revision for the DS, and then like a week later announced the DS Lite? They will deny the existence of a revision, which we all know is inevitable, right up until the point they announce it.
