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[blueblur121]

C-stick? Z-buttons? The 3DS is slowly becoming what nintendo always wanted it to be.

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[Flamecannon]

Why is Nintendo so ass with naming their consoles?

iunna man
XBAWKS ONE
PULAYSTASHION FORE
kina sounds goofy as well

[blueblur121]

OH stuff WAIT.

What if that upcoming Metroid game will be a Metroid Prime style first person shooter that uses the new C-nub?

[SpongeCraft1212]

Xenoblade chronicles is also getting a 3ds remake! Only compatible with the new 3ds.

Thanks Nintendo!

[MegaScientifical]

Thanks Nintendo!

Well you can benefit of the doubt and say, "We had people working to remake this game. Of course, they wanted to take full advantage of the most advanced technology Nintendo could provide. For that reason, the game was designed and tuned on the 3DS New's hardware and is only compatible with it."

I mean to be honest, if I was going to make a console game, I'd rather put it on the topmost technology so I'd be able to take advantage of every little innovation over the previous generations. Otherwise you end up taking these annoying workarounds here and there which slow development time. I know it sucks for compatibility and yes I'm sure part of Nintendo's reasoning was marketing, but I'm trying to consider the perspective of the people actually doing the remake.

[Pixel]

iunna man
XBAWKS ONE
PULAYSTASHION FORE
kina sounds goofy as well

People know that the Xbox One can't play Xbox 360 games though. And PlayStation 4? Are you serious with that it's the most straightforward way of saying "new console" how could that confuse anyone.

But with Nintendo you get the game boy and the game boy color and the game boy advance and the game boy advance sp and the DS and the DS lite and the DSi and the DSi XL and the 3DS and the 3DS XL and the Wii and the Wii U and it becomes difficult to be able to easily tell which systems are new consoles and which one's are just reiterations.

[MegaScientifical]

I wonder if Nintendo has an internal, sequential naming system verses their consumer names. AKA has anyone discovered identification data in the more recent systems which would be easier to note new versions on?

[Flamecannon]

People know that the Xbox One can't play Xbox 360 games though. And PlayStation 4? Are you serious with that it's the most straightforward way of saying "new console" how could that confuse anyone.

i'm saying they aren't the best names
like i mean i think that xbox doesn't really mean anything to me, and that playstation is like naming your tv viewingbox
does xbox mean like xtreme or something or is it like the crossing of people or iunna
iunna, i like dreamcast because it fits it perfectly, overly ambitious

[Bisjac]

the next nintendo should just be "Nintendo 7"

whats the big deal

[Flamecannon]

the next nintendo should just be "Nintendo 7"

whats the big deal

i'm not exactly complaining i'm just saying that console names are silly in general and wii u isn't exactly the worst jimjam to himham
but its also fun to discuss names

[MegaScientifical]

He means the fact Nintendo has just been slapping "New" on their products instead of giving unique, non-date-able names. Primarily Mario titles and now this DS. Kind of hope it gets rebranded outside of Japan, because "New" is going to get confusing when they release the 4DS, which can bend space and time.

[Pixel]

Flame I don't think you get what I'm saying.

I'm arguing that their naming schemes are incredibly confusing for consumers. Especially when you buy a New 3DS just to find out it doesn't run on your 3DS.

[Randomness]

Don't believe what Nintendo's saying: It's actually their attempt at stamping out piracy.

The scene is on the virge of blowing open the 3DS hardware since the efforts to extract its public key from the 3DS CPU began in early March.

Depackaging the 3DS CPU: http://gaasedelen.blogspot.com/2014/03/depackaging-nintendo-3ds-cpu.html

Variables are not fun to reverse: https://twitter.com/0x7bdf/status/474488064018903040/photo/1

Both Andrew Ringer and Gaasedelen are apparently working on breaking open understanding the 3DS firmware and how their games interface with 3DS and such.

As of now, the [DATA REDACTED FOR BADSPOT REASONS] (I am not advertising a flashcart on the forums) 3DS flashcart only works on 4.1-4.5 firmware so by enforcing new hardware to only use 7.0+ firmware Nintendo is hoping to minimize damage caused by full understanding of 3DS hardware and allow developers to use new 3DS hardware to secure their games. This may or may not end in disaster, because you cant change the public and private key for a console. Not without releasing an entirely new platform anyway.

I do not endorse piracy of course, and you shouldn't either, but that's just how the scene works. It helps to have an ear to the ground. Also I might be insulting someone saying that reverse engineering of hardware always leads to piracy, but it doesn't always lead there. Unfortunately, richardweeds always abuse the efforts of curious geniuses for their own selfish desires. This is why we can't have nice things.

[Flamecannon]

Flame I don't think you get what I'm saying.

I'm arguing that their naming schemes are incredibly confusing for consumers. Especially when you buy a New 3DS just to find out it doesn't run on your 3DS.

to be frank i was just talking about how the base names are silly and not the way companies name their subsequent consoles
i think in the end neither of our talks exactly correlate lol, i just added ps4 and xbox one in my original post as an example of my claim that the base names are silly, i didn't need to put 4 and one there but i did because iunna

[Pixel]

to be frank i was just talking about how the base names are silly and not the way companies name their subsequent consoles
i think in the end neither of our talks exactly correlate lol

Yeah thats what I just said - No idea why you branched a random "Playstation and xbox are stupid names" argument off of my post but whatever