The Nintendo 3DS - Is it dying?
Hi! It's been a long time. I'm trying to maintain a YouTube channel (on a seperate account) and school work, so it's hard to juggle all of this at once, plus other things that crop up. I use iOS, so I have no blogger when I'm on the go.
Back to the topic: Is the 3DS dead? I believe the 3DS is a fully milked cow. It's dry. Nintendo is trying to push it, their trying to make more and more games, but when you have a 2011 console that's getting games in 2017... It just doesn't work. Granted, it's one of Nintendo's miracles, rising from the rubble created by the Virtual Boy and the Wii U, like the Wii. There was great games, which kept it going (Super Smash Bros for 3DS, Pokemon X and Y, Pokemon Sun and Moon, Super Mario 3D Land) for so long. The games are also exhausted. Their resorting to fully rebooting the 3DS, with the New 2DS XL. Why? Why does this exist? To quote a gaming friend I met "If my 3DS breaks tommorow, I'll buy a New 2DS to replace it." It's not a replacement, unless your 3DS breaks.
In short, yes it's dying: but it's not done yet. They tried to throw the Wii U under the rug as soon as they could after the sales. The 3DS was a cash cow, and Nintendo kept it for as long as they could, like the original Wii. But everything has to die eventually. I predict, by 2018, Nintendo will announce that *insert good game here* will be the final 3DS game, and with it, they are shutting off online services for the Wii U and 3DS. That'll get everyone to buy MK8D and Splatoon 2 to keep playing online. That's how companies work.
Thanks for reading!
- Dylan
Back to the topic: Is the 3DS dead? I believe the 3DS is a fully milked cow. It's dry. Nintendo is trying to push it, their trying to make more and more games, but when you have a 2011 console that's getting games in 2017... It just doesn't work. Granted, it's one of Nintendo's miracles, rising from the rubble created by the Virtual Boy and the Wii U, like the Wii. There was great games, which kept it going (Super Smash Bros for 3DS, Pokemon X and Y, Pokemon Sun and Moon, Super Mario 3D Land) for so long. The games are also exhausted. Their resorting to fully rebooting the 3DS, with the New 2DS XL. Why? Why does this exist? To quote a gaming friend I met "If my 3DS breaks tommorow, I'll buy a New 2DS to replace it." It's not a replacement, unless your 3DS breaks.
In short, yes it's dying: but it's not done yet. They tried to throw the Wii U under the rug as soon as they could after the sales. The 3DS was a cash cow, and Nintendo kept it for as long as they could, like the original Wii. But everything has to die eventually. I predict, by 2018, Nintendo will announce that *insert good game here* will be the final 3DS game, and with it, they are shutting off online services for the Wii U and 3DS. That'll get everyone to buy MK8D and Splatoon 2 to keep playing online. That's how companies work.
Thanks for reading!
- Dylan
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