Olaf-symbiote
Fury will consume you!
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As exciting as this surely is for everyone (including me), I recommend that you all will wait a bit before considering buying this 3DS. Say, maybe a year after its launch? Then you'd be just in time for the 3DS Lite. Surely quite many of the people, possibly even some of the members in this forum (I'm not pointing at anyone, calm down) will be so mesmerized by 3DS Lite's aesthetic desing that many will soon forget it's just a sleekier 3DS, a console they already own. If the first iteration of 3DS would cost 200 bucks, then you'd be essentially paying double the amount of that, possibly even more. I bet everyone would like to use their 400$ on a console and some games for it, rather than on two almost identical consoles.
If anyone's confused and wondering what the fudge I'm blabbering on about, here's a news flash: Nintendo, although the best console manufacturer and games developer in the universe, has a particular habit that makes their customer base rather uncomfortable: they like to f*** up their handhelds' first designs. Gameboy was an ugly grey block with a black and white display that not only got a smaller redesign (Game Boy Pocket) but also redesigns with color (Game Boy Color) and a backlit screen (the Japan exclusive Game Boy Light). The successor, Game Boy Advance, had a rather toy-like design and you couldn't see a damn thing of the action on the screen without lighting up the whole town. Then, Nintendo decided to help everyone conserve energy and released a sleek, backlit Game Boy Advance SP that you could also charge up without the need for those obnoxious AA batteries. And later on, the miniature (though short-lived) Game Boy Micro followed. And with DS we got the original (AKA Phat), that really lived up to the first Gameboy in ugliness, then the fadtastic Lite (it's announcement and release irked me unlike anything else before, even more than the GBASP), then the all seeing DSi and later on its bigger (and better?) brother, XL.
To this day, I've sticked with my GBA and Phat. As you can see, I've been an early adopter (except with Game Boy, when I got GBC instead as my first ever handheld). Unfortunately, early adopters are like second-class citizens to Nintendo (note: I don't bear any grudges or hate towards them, they're still the best). Iwata and pals have probably LMAO'ed at all the people who bought the earliest models of their handhelds. And for a good reason. If you bought the Phat, thinking that it was awesome, only to buy the Lite later on because it looked so damn gorgeous, you deserve to be laughed at (*hahahahahahahahahahah!*). If you've repeatedly succumbed to the same mistake of buying the first iterations of Nintendo handhelds and then buying the redesigns, I pity you. If you'll do it again with 3DS, fully knowing it'll get tons of redesigns, you're either very rich or such a huge idiot you deserve to get your money taken away from you (no matter what you might think, I wasn't serious when I said that, so don't start complaining about how I "insulted everyone and deserve to get banned").
If you're fine with owning the first and the most primitive and lacking designs of Nintendo's handhelds, buy this 3DS straight at the launch. If you've always loved how the redesigns like SP and Lite looked like, don't be tempted by this new handheld. Even if it looked nice compared to DSi, remember that the redesigns will be so much more sexier that they'll make the first model look ugly. It's your own loss if you end up buying every handheld twice (or *gulp* thrice or more) and wasting twice as much money for what is essentially the same, only with some added bells and whistles. The first year is always guaranteed to have a weaker lineup of games, including tons of shovelware, so you're not missing much. If there are some kickass titles you're worried about being sold out soon, buy them in advance and start playing them when you get the 3DS Lite. Meanwhile, you can keep on playing with your Wii and DS, that will assuredly still be getting tons of games. It's only one year's wait, it'll pass fairly quickly. And then you can get the shiny new 3DS Lite. As for me? I'm gonna buy it at the launch and ignore the improved models, just like with my GBA and Phat.
If anyone's confused and wondering what the fudge I'm blabbering on about, here's a news flash: Nintendo, although the best console manufacturer and games developer in the universe, has a particular habit that makes their customer base rather uncomfortable: they like to f*** up their handhelds' first designs. Gameboy was an ugly grey block with a black and white display that not only got a smaller redesign (Game Boy Pocket) but also redesigns with color (Game Boy Color) and a backlit screen (the Japan exclusive Game Boy Light). The successor, Game Boy Advance, had a rather toy-like design and you couldn't see a damn thing of the action on the screen without lighting up the whole town. Then, Nintendo decided to help everyone conserve energy and released a sleek, backlit Game Boy Advance SP that you could also charge up without the need for those obnoxious AA batteries. And later on, the miniature (though short-lived) Game Boy Micro followed. And with DS we got the original (AKA Phat), that really lived up to the first Gameboy in ugliness, then the fadtastic Lite (it's announcement and release irked me unlike anything else before, even more than the GBASP), then the all seeing DSi and later on its bigger (and better?) brother, XL.
To this day, I've sticked with my GBA and Phat. As you can see, I've been an early adopter (except with Game Boy, when I got GBC instead as my first ever handheld). Unfortunately, early adopters are like second-class citizens to Nintendo (note: I don't bear any grudges or hate towards them, they're still the best). Iwata and pals have probably LMAO'ed at all the people who bought the earliest models of their handhelds. And for a good reason. If you bought the Phat, thinking that it was awesome, only to buy the Lite later on because it looked so damn gorgeous, you deserve to be laughed at (*hahahahahahahahahahah!*). If you've repeatedly succumbed to the same mistake of buying the first iterations of Nintendo handhelds and then buying the redesigns, I pity you. If you'll do it again with 3DS, fully knowing it'll get tons of redesigns, you're either very rich or such a huge idiot you deserve to get your money taken away from you (no matter what you might think, I wasn't serious when I said that, so don't start complaining about how I "insulted everyone and deserve to get banned").
If you're fine with owning the first and the most primitive and lacking designs of Nintendo's handhelds, buy this 3DS straight at the launch. If you've always loved how the redesigns like SP and Lite looked like, don't be tempted by this new handheld. Even if it looked nice compared to DSi, remember that the redesigns will be so much more sexier that they'll make the first model look ugly. It's your own loss if you end up buying every handheld twice (or *gulp* thrice or more) and wasting twice as much money for what is essentially the same, only with some added bells and whistles. The first year is always guaranteed to have a weaker lineup of games, including tons of shovelware, so you're not missing much. If there are some kickass titles you're worried about being sold out soon, buy them in advance and start playing them when you get the 3DS Lite. Meanwhile, you can keep on playing with your Wii and DS, that will assuredly still be getting tons of games. It's only one year's wait, it'll pass fairly quickly. And then you can get the shiny new 3DS Lite. As for me? I'm gonna buy it at the launch and ignore the improved models, just like with my GBA and Phat.
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