Official 3DS Discussion Thread

[Neerb]

hero of darkness is like this guy with a ton of information that nobody else has and nobody has announced anything on but he talks about it anyway
who are you guy
bill gates

Nobody else has information on current technology?

[DededeCloneChris]

In other news besides bashing Nintendo in this innocent thread, we've got ourselves a rhythm gem from Sega. Rhythm Thief & The Emperor's Treasure.

How about you guys shut the hell up and talk about what the topic demands?

[Zero]

No, what I don't understand Hero, is why you ignore what I've been saying almost as if you have this urge to create an argument. My apologies for not providing a source to "everything", here you go:

http://kotaku.com/208191/xbox-3-already-being-planned

http://kotaku.com/5794000/microsoft-and-sony-targeting-2014-for-new-consoles-leaving-nintendo-in-the-clear

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-21/tech/new.playstation.xbox_1_3ds-kinect-wii?_s=PM:TECH

and there are many more sources. If you pay attention to Twitter, the companies all confirmed this as the estimated year. Not 2012, not 2013. 2014. The Wii U isn't going to have much more power than a PS3 and its online is still probably going to be poop, so of course Sony and Microsoft don't feel as though waiting to launch is a bad move. (Not to mention, they consider PSMove and Kinect as "upgrades" to the consoles, to give them more shelf life)

Unless something revolutionary suddenly appears, it'll take until 2014 at least just to get that amount of power into a console.

My entire point is that 2014 is the golden date. Yes, the gap will be immense. Maybe not as immense, but it'll be obvious that the Wii U is inferior.

[Custom]

Nobody else has information on current technology?

he just seems like he pulls a ton of information out of nowhere that's not at all definite or confirmed by anything

stop being dumb neerb GOD

[Hero_of_Darkness]

No, what I don't understand Hero, is why you ignore what I've been saying almost as if you have this urge to create an argument. My apologies for not providing a source to "everything", here you go:

http://kotaku.com/208191/xbox-3-already-being-planned

http://kotaku.com/5794000/microsoft-and-sony-targeting-2014-for-new-consoles-leaving-nintendo-in-the-clear

http://articles.cnn.com/2011-04-21/tech/new.playstation.xbox_1_3ds-kinect-wii?_s=PM:TECH

and there are many more sources. If you pay attention to Twitter, the companies all confirmed this as the estimated year. Not 2012, not 2013. 2014. The Wii U isn't going to have much more power than a PS3 and its online is still probably going to be poop, so of course Sony and Microsoft don't feel as though waiting to launch is a bad move. (Not to mention, they consider PSMove and Kinect as "upgrades" to the consoles, to give them more shelf life)

My entire point is that 2014 is the golden date. Yes, the gap will be immense. Maybe not as immense, but it'll be obvious that the Wii U is inferior.

You'll also notice that none of those article are recent.

But we'll see how E3 2012 goes.

[spoiler]And Move didn't do poop for PS3. No way they're depending on that.[/spoiler]

[Doodle]

It depends on HOW MUCH more power we can get. We've come a long way from 8-bit, remember. There's eventually going to be a limit.

Are you just talking out of your ass
It seems like this post was made with the intent of contributing anything you possibly could to the conversation

There is no limit, because we're always going to be pushing current tech to the brink, so we'll always need more processing power, etc.

[Kayo]

Are you just talking out of your ass
It seems like this post was made with the intent of contributing anything you possibly could to the conversation

There is no limit, because we're always going to be pushing current tech to the brink, so we'll always need more processing power, etc.

But where are we at this point? We just got 3D in our handhelds. What else is even possible?

There's going to be a limit, eventually, especially with handhelds. There isn't an infinite amount of things you can add to something while keeping it small enough to fit in your pocket. Sure, there are tons of possibilities. It's just finite.

[Hero_of_Darkness]

But where are we at this point? We just got 3D in our handhelds. What else is even possible?

There's going to be a limit, eventually, especially with handhelds. There isn't an infinite amount of things you can add to something while keeping it small enough to fit in your pocket. Sure, there are tons of possibilities. It's just finite.

We're still pretty far from that, since transistors keep shrinking. That said, we're already seeing the companies in charge of making chips run into issues with moving to smaller nodes. TSMC, the main company making AMD's and Nvidia's GPUs (as well as many mobile chips), can't seem to get anything out on time. We are going to need to move away from silicon soon so we can finally make the jump to nanoelectronics.

[Zero]

Like I said, there were more sources. Kotaku had an article recently about the 2014 date, but the ones I linked were what I could get in five seconds via google search. The most recent one I linked was April 2011, which isn't in OMG THE ABYSMAL PAST, so yeah.

And wait, hasn't PSMove been pretty popular?

[Neerb]

Like I said, there were more sources. Kotaku had an article recently about the 2014 date, but the ones I linked were what I could get in five seconds via google search. The most recent one I linked was April 2011, which isn't in OMG THE ABYSMAL PAST, so yeah.

And wait, hasn't PSMove been pretty popular?

It's not exactly gained Kinect-level interest; Sony wouldn't be able to survive off of motion shovelware like Microsoft expects to.

[Hero_of_Darkness]

Like I said, there were more sources. Kotaku had an article recently about the 2014 date, but the ones I linked were what I could get in five seconds via google search. The most recent one I linked was April 2011, which isn't in OMG THE ABYSMAL PAST, so yeah.

And wait, hasn't PSMove been pretty popular?

Well... Yes and no.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/04/15/sony-ships-50-million-playstation-3s-eight-million-move-control/

Six months later...

http://www.vg247.com/2011/10/13/playstation-move-ships-8-3-million-units/comment-page-1/

And keep in mind that these are shipped numbers, not sold.

And as I said, we'll see at E3 2012. Plans can change. Sony and MS can't possibly just assume both that Wii U will flop and that the other company will feel the same way. This is an extremely competitive business.

[Zero]

I see. Guess that explains why I only know like one person that bought that poop.

[Kayo]

http://www.wiinintendo.net/2011/10/10/official-3ds-ambassador-games-competition/

The intercourse  is this intercourse ing bullpoop? They're glorifying the "ambassadors" again?!

At least it's not Nintendo themself this time.

not a big deal, but I didn't exactly wanted to be reminded of this again.

[Zero]

i still don't get why you're so butthurt over that

[DededeCloneChris]

i still don't get why you're so butthurt over that

*Flashes Ambassador Certificate*

Kayo's obviously jealous he didn't get to be one. It's the only reasonable reason I can come up with...

Also, what the hell is wrong with that poll? Star Fox isn't a character!