I woke up to a bit of people wondering my thoughts along with surprise that I wasn’t up–to be honest, I forgot about the Nintendo Direct that had been announced despite being previously excited for it. It wasn’t due to already thinking it’d be disappointing or that it wouldn’t be important since it was Japan only (I often watch the other Nintendo Directs out of curiousity)–I simply had some issues sleeping due to excitement about the mail that should come today (PROFESSOR LAYTON VS ACE ATTORNEY) which I’m still waiting for.
Thus, when I got on, the first thing I heard was new 3DS. And I felt confused. Very very confused. That feeling almost immediately hit disappointment which has been going further the more I heard about it.
The new 3DS seems to have some features I really like which only makes it worse by the fact that I don’t want it. And it’ll apparently be out sometime 2015 for North America. :/
My main issue is, like with the Nintendo DSi, eventually there will be a game you want and you will be forced to get it. The main difference is I didn’t put as much “effort” into my Nintendo DSi. It’s not that I didn’t play it as much. I definitely did. I enjoyed Flipnote Hatena and several of its features. But I adore my 3DS a lot. StreetPass is one of my all-time favorite features and for the longest time, I had the StreetPass plaza as my favorite game. I bring my 3DS everywhere in hopes of seeing that green light pop up. I had my 3DS decorated twice (The first by an awesome friend as a birthday present–the 2nd time, shown below, by myself moving it from my original 3DS after the charge port had broken):
And as most of the people here should know, I also have a 3DS Capture Card–something that does not exist on the XL. I mean, who knows, maybe it’s CPU is so big it can do streaming off it. I don’t think so considering I’m sure that would’ve been announced, but moving on… I love being able to screenshot and record my 3DS. I have a tendency to take A LOT of pictures. If you’ve played LittleBigPlanet 1 or 2 with me, you know how many times I’d stop everyone to take a photo. Or to upload photos. And that isn’t even every photo I took because for a while I just uploaded them to an SD Card before I know that is what would happen when I uploaded them to the web. Still sad not all my photos are there now. MOVING ON…
If you’ve seen my posts here, you know I STILL have a tendency to take a lot of pictures. And if I couldn’t record, it’d honestly be about 10x more at least. I like being able to record so much and I wouldn’t want two 3DS–I like all my data on one (thus part of why I’m so picky on downloading games). If it’s data on another 3DS, it never feels like it’s mine even if I own both.
So for me, recording was a way to actually lessen my pictures a lot and the fact that I could just screenshot and upload meant a lot to me because it was much quicker. Removing the SD Card (especially after one incident) was not something I enjoyed doing to upload pictures. And while I appreciate the Nintendo 3DS Image Share website, just one at a time was way too slow for the amount of pictures I had the tendency to take. If I had to use these two options without a capture card for my Animal Crossing site, Disney Magical World site, and Tomodachi Life playthrough here, it’d honestly be a huge detriment to my enjoyment and eventually just really weigh down to the point where I’d play significantly less and less (Kind of like what the moving mechanic in ACNL did). And while yes, I know one of the new features has to do with this, there has been nothing that says it’ll be more than one picture at a time. Not to mention the quality varies–of course, this has a chance to be improved as well (though, I didn’t see it mentioned).
Those who know me know I rarely ever replay games so being able to have these recordings is really special to me. And again, saved so many pictures. While you can get a capture card for an XL (though it is very expensive), I’m sure it’ll be a while for one for the new 3DS plus I honestly can’t justify the price again. I made the exception when my original 3DS broke due to how special it was (being half pink and half teal), but I know I can’t do that again–I do not have the funds to make any justification for it as much as I’d like it.
Finally, I just don’t like the XL. I don’t like the shape, the matte finish (Though, the metallic seems kind of shiny which is nice… but only the XL versions are like that and I don’t want the XL), and in general I find it too big. While the latter may not be an issue with the smaller sized one (It doesn’t seem too much bigger, thankfully), there’s still the first two problems which is why I’ve never planned to get an XL.
But yes, going off my own personal reasons from being turned off about it, I want to go over the features too and my feelings on them:
Features I like
Features I have mixed feelings on/Don’t care much about
They don’t even cover it. The white (or whatever color it might be) stripes along the top and bottom because the case couldn’t actually be the whole thing really really really bugs me.
Features I dislike
If I missed any features, please let me know.
Right now, I’m just hoping there will never be a game I like that needs that 3DS. But I know there eventually will be and thus, the only thing I really feel is a load of sadness and disappointment. Not necessarily in anyone in particular–it’d be stupid to think there was never going to be a new 3DS… but there’s a difference between a new version (XL, 2DS) and a version that you need to get for new features. And of course, when there is a game I’ll want (even if I’m still hoping there won’t be), I hope a light pink and white version will be out by then (if not a completely light pink version).
On the bright side, this does bring every 3DS the ability for an Awesome theme menu so yay!:
At least I hope that applies to North America too… ._. I do know I’ll have trouble picking one though… I hope we can maybe mix and match them.
Edit: Confirmed for October in North America too! Yay!