Nintendo's latest adventure in distinguished mentally-challenged hardware: The 2DS!

[Cerveza mas fina]

When did the last Pokemon game release in the US Oscar?

[archnemesis]

When did the last Pokemon game release in the US Oscar?

Today, actually (Pokémon Rumble U). The last mainline game was released in October 2012.

[Tasty]

pokemon is pretty much their last hope of improving things in the west, though, and you surely have to agree that among the typical audience that buys pokemon pretty much every time, that twenty dollar pricedrop is meaningful.

Twenty? 3DS is $170 and XL is $200. This is a $40 price "drop."

[magus]

a shop near where i live sells the 3DS for 150 euro's plus three free DS game

[Tasty]

And I'm sure GameCube Huts are selling it for $50 somewhere. We're talking MSRP.

[huckleberry]

My son wants one...I asked him why and he said it was alot cheaper, doesn't care about 3d at all, and there was no way in hell he was going to be seen in public playing a 3ds anyway so why not get the "cheese wedge".

[Rufus]

Reasonable. How old is he?

[Raban]

My son wants one...I asked him why and he said it was alot cheaper, doesn't care about 3d at all, and there was no way in hell he was going to be seen in public playing a 3ds anyway so why not get the "cheese wedge".

sounds like your son should start posting on The Bore

[Stoney Mason]

My son wants one...I asked him why and he said it was alot cheaper, doesn't care about 3d at all, and there was no way in hell he was going to be seen in public playing a 3ds anyway so why not get the "cheese wedge".

Not into portables outside of an ipad or iphone so no way I would get one but yeah I feel the same way.

[Mr. Gundam]

I really like Nintendo taking out the 3D to lower the cost, but good god that is ugliest handheld I've ever seen.

[huckleberry]

Reasonable. How old is he?

15

And he did try to register here....but that can't happen. I already feel old enough.  :'(

[demi]

Reasonable. How old is he?

15

And he did try to register here....but that can't happen. I already feel old enough.  :'(

Really? Did you ground him? Fuck you, dad.

[demi]

 http://news.yahoo.com/video/nintendo-announces-2ds-lowers-wii-142527753.html

At the bottom of the video

"Nintendo's new 2DS handheld game console is cheaper than the 3DS, but with lower quality graphics."

[huckleberry]

Reasonable. How old is he?

15

And he did try to register here....but that can't happen. I already feel old enough.  :'(

Really? Did you ground him? Fuck you, dad.

 

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:'(

[close]

He is too sensitive for all you turd burglars anyway.

[Joe Molotov]

http://news.yahoo.com/video/nintendo-announces-2ds-lowers-wii-142527753.html

At the bottom of the video

"Nintendo's new 2DS handheld game console is cheaper than the 3DS, but with lower quality graphics."

The graphics have one less D.

[Sho Nuff]

"The Nintendo two-deez"

[Tasty]

pokemon is pretty much their last hope of improving things in the west, though, and you surely have to agree that among the typical audience that buys pokemon pretty much every time, that twenty dollar pricedrop is meaningful.

Twenty? 3DS is $170 and XL is $200. This is a $40 price "drop."

Yeah sorry I don't actually live in your country, y'see.  I see them here for 15,000 yen and just assumed.

You'd certainly think with sales floundering in the west, Nintendo would be more likely to lower the price. Maybe it has something to do with the exchange rate or something.

[Tasty]

http://news.yahoo.com/video/nintendo-announces-2ds-lowers-wii-142527753.html

At the bottom of the video

"Nintendo's new 2DS handheld game console is cheaper than the 3DS, but with lower quality graphics."

The graphics have one less D.

I wish I could give my D to the 2DS.

[Diunx]

Reasonable. How old is he?

15

And he did try to register here....but that can't happen. I already feel old enough.  :'(

Don't worry dude, Greatness Gone no longer post here.

[Tasty]

[Human Snorenado]

Francis

[huckleberry]

Reasonable. How old is he?

15

And he did try to register here....but that can't happen. I already feel old enough.  :'(

Don't worry dude, Greatness Gone no longer post here.

 

[Human Snorenado]

[Joe Molotov]

Francis

Title change time!

[MCD]

[MCD]

[Eel O'Brian]

[bork]

[Eel O'Brian]

it will be good.

[Phoenix Dark]

I'd love to see the focus groups Nintendo runs. 2DS sounds like it's not as new as 3DS. If the plan was to move away from the wasted 3D gimmick, why not bring back the Gameboy sometime in the future?

It's like if Apple suddenly announced the iPad 2HD.

[Tasty]

...

[Trent Dole]

dat piss yellow 2DS

[Polari]

The piss yellow Gameboy Color was a nice piece of kit back in the day.

[ToxicAdam]

"We need a color that our infantile, self-conscious 20 year old fan will buy."

"Fuck it, make it grey."

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

90s nostalgia is so fucking painful to watch

[Yeti]

Is there even anything in the 00s to be nostalgic about though?

[cool breeze]

Is there even anything in the 00s to be nostalgic about though?

80s nostalgia

[Rufus]

Anything is a target, even the absence of certain things.

[Tasty]

GameCube.

GameBoy Advance

Nintendo DS

Wii

MySpace

Arrested Development

GW 

The Killers

[Tasty]

the 2030s are going to be insufferable due to Brony nostalgia

On the other hand, no more bronies. 

[Tasty]

The Killers is like my favorite band yo. If you can't accept that then we can no longer be butt buddies.

[hampster]

I watched a couple of hands on videos and the 2DS is growing on me

I'd grab one if it was the XL screens. I want to replace my normal 3DS with a XL at some point, just haven't gotten around to it yet

[tiesto]

Is there even anything in the 00s to be nostalgic about though?

Hip hop at its mainstream peak, street racing, UFC, Texas Hold'em tournaments. That's all I can remember of the last decade.

[Human Snorenado]

Yeah, 90's hip hop is pretty much the peak of the genre IMO.  You have lots of different sounding stuff, whereas today everything pretty much sounds either overproduced or underproduced, and all of it by the same guy.

[Great Rumbler]

9/11, two prolonged wars, Muslim paranoia, collapse of PC gaming, George W. Bush, economic instability, Hurricane Katrina, 2004 tsunami...

[DCharlieJP]

the 90s and 00s had so much fucking awesome music and games that i can get behind it.
Plus the football team i support were actually not sucking back then.

Plus regular sexy time!

[Rufus]

9/11, two prolonged wars, Muslim paranoia, collapse of PC gaming, George W. Bush, economic instability, Hurricane Katrina, 2004 tsunami...

Ah those were the days...

[Human Snorenado]

the 90s and 00s had so much fucking awesome music and games that i can get behind it.
Plus the football team i support were actually not sucking back then.

Plus regular sexy time!

Triumph's Sex Life
R.I.P.
1996-2007

[Tasty]

The Killers is like my favorite band yo. If you can't accept that then we can no longer be butt buddies.

We are done, I need a new ho anyway.

FINE SEE IF I CARE

[Joe Molotov]

Super Smash Bros Melee every afternoon after class.

[Human Snorenado]

[Tasty]

00's had a lot a great stuff like every decade. I'll probably be nostalgic for some things and some good times from that era when I look back.

GAF when it was good.

[Phoenix Dark]

Yeah, 90's hip hop is pretty much the peak of the genre IMO.  You have lots of different sounding stuff, whereas today everything pretty much sounds either overproduced or underproduced, and all of it by the same guy.

Sounds like you don't listen to hip hop. It's better today than it has been in a long time, and I'd argue there is more variety now than in the 90s. Not saying it's a better era than the 90s, but your post sounds like something that would be justified in 2002-2010.

[Great Rumbler]

00's nostalgia? It's already here:

[Human Snorenado]

Yeah, 90's hip hop is pretty much the peak of the genre IMO.  You have lots of different sounding stuff, whereas today everything pretty much sounds either overproduced or underproduced, and all of it by the same guy.

Sounds like you don't listen to hip hop. It's better today than it has been in a long time, and I'd argue there is more variety now than in the 90s. Not saying it's a better era than the 90s, but your post sounds like something that would be justified in 2002-2010.

I honestly haven't paid attention to hip hop since around 2009 or so, other than the crap I hear on the radio very occasionally.  But that's my point- in the 90's, you heard a lot of different stuff on the radio, and these days you hear the same ol shit.  I'm sure there's more indie/underground/lesser known shit out there, but as far as mainstream hip hop goes- it's a bunch of homogenized shit these days.

[brob]

A hat in time reminds me of those b-tier collect-a-thons I loved on the PS2





Someone kickstart sequels for Vexx or Haven pls. :'(

[Diunx]

What a terrible fucking decade, the only thing I miss from the 00s is my sixpack, the local punk shows and the 15 year old punk chicks

[Oblivion]

Uh...

1. What the hell is going on in here?
2. I'm out of the sales loop, but were 3DS sales floundering?

[Great Rumbler]

2. I'm out of the sales loop, but were 3DS sales floundering?

Not particularly.

[Tasty]

They've been soft in the west since launch. NoA/E probably wants to make sure they won't stay soft after Pokemon.