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Comment by Haze-man on June 22, 2011 at 7:36am

I can't wait to get Zelda 3DS!

 

Comment by Chris Bartel on June 21, 2011 at 4:52pm

@ mr. tankard

I've never heard of sony grouping ps3 and psp sales together but i do see your point in regards to financial reasons to make sure shareholders are happy.   In answer to your question no i wouldn't consider those systems similar, i just don't really see a new console as a new console when from an electronic standpoint they use the same components and just tweak how they use those components.     just my personal view when looking at nintendo handhelds from the gameboy to the DS they really haven't done much to actually make something new the gameboy advance really looks like a foldable gameboy and even the 3DS looks like another version of any of the DS systems when you see pictures of it.    

 

Clearly i have gotten way off topic with my responses because i was originally trying to point out to another poster that you really can't call the DSi a failure in terms of sales, and since developers and companies no longer report actual sales figures anymore we get inflated figures in terms of how many units have been sold to stores it really does make it hard to tell what is a success and what fails unless the company tells us.   

Comment by Empty Tankard on June 21, 2011 at 4:42pm

@Chris Bartel

Sony has grouped psp and ps3 sales before. Would you consider those two systems minor tweaks from one another? For the DS family your point is probably true, but the more likely answer is to appear as strong financialy as possible. They certainly don't want shareholders to get all uppity and nervous.

Comment by Chris Bartel on June 21, 2011 at 7:45am

@blackharp

my argument does seem to come off that way doesn't it, I've just never considered the GBA to be a new handheld just an improvement to the gameboy, it's the same way with all the DS handhelds to me they use the same technology with improvements and tweaks to each one.

 

Now the design of the 3DS is similar to the DSi, DSi Xl, i didn't realize that they use different components than the DS lineup, the only reason i bring up nintendo grouping the systems in sales figures is because that's how nintendo groups the handhelds they say they have sold over a 100 million gameboy's which includes GBA and that the Nintendo DS (DS, DS lit, DSi, DSi xl) is close to matching the lifetime sales of the gameboy.

 

The point i'm trying to make is that if a company says they have a single item that they look at the sales figures for and don't separate each different handheld out when looking at those figures it makes me think that they only consider those different handhelds to be tweaks, i would almost compare it to MS windows except MS comes out with a decent version then a crap version then a decent version so as many steps forward they take they tend to take that many back

Comment by Empty Tankard on June 21, 2011 at 7:32am

All of this is filler until next week when Gundam Musou 3 is released. I can't to check out personally how they revolutionize the perpetual mashing of the x button.

Comment by Talvi on June 21, 2011 at 5:58am

@Bloody_black_valentine:

 

I'm using the Xperia Play smartphone (you know the playstation phone) and i finally found a working N64 emulator just so I could get Orcarina of Time on there. And then I saw the trailer for the 3DS version and it's ofcourse a major graphical update over the N64 one. I figure that is the only thing they changed and left the gameplay intact. Don't think it's much of a reboot more than it it's a report to the 3DS with highly improved graphics.

Even if you think it was past your mark that game is worth every cent, played it to death on the N64 and still playing it so much on my phone now that i have to recharge it almsot every day.

Comment by Waggleton P. Tallylicker on June 21, 2011 at 4:32am

F.E.A.R 1 and 2 were shit, not much hope for 3 or F.3.A.R, bargain bin me thinks. Gettin Zelda friday. The rest is just crap to fill the gap. 11.11.11

Comment by Blackharp on June 21, 2011 at 4:06am

@ Chris Bartel

I've never seen anyone lump the GBA into the sales figures of the Gameboy unless someone was taking into account all Nintendo handhelds. And just because Nintendo groups their systems together in sales figures does not make them the same console. I don't even understand your argument here, you basically don't see something as a new console unless the lifetime sales of it are written separately from its predecessor?

 

Sorry if I'm comming across as rude I'm just way too much into video games and take them a tad too seriously at times.

Comment by pyranova on June 21, 2011 at 1:32am

I'm ironically an underline grammar nazi which my own gramma suck balls.  But I refuse to give in!

 

Onto business, I'm actually quite excited about the reboot of Zelda, many of my friends own a ds and I've been curious about one myself.  Also I always felt it was past my mark to go play the legendary Ocarina of Time, that I somehow missed the train.  Now would be a great time to get on board but I have friends already talking shit about the game, mainly on graphics.  I won't spend money out of curiosity or on a whim, but I have no current game stations of any sort.  Hopefully good reviews come out, or not, we'll see.

Comment by Tweetums on June 20, 2011 at 11:59pm

Ah Ocarina of Time~
Wondering if I'd still end up punching babies because of that lovely Water Temple...

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