Flake wrote:
Punished? It's video games. Buy it if you want. Don't buy it if you don't.
It's all relative obviously, but is it impossible for a company that makes products to "punish" its best customers? That is, it feels like "punishment" because it feels like I'm being asked, if I want to stay "in the loop" with Nintendo games, to shell out more money for something incrementally better that has at least one interesting exclusive, despite already buying the most expensive version of the same hardware line in the recent past. In other words, penalized for misplaced faith. Like I said, I suppose it is my fault for having said faith...but it seemed to me that the overwhelming sentiment seemed to be that Nintendo was done with 3DS revisions (and, I believe, they may have made official comments in a similar vein).
And of course Nintendo has done something similar for years, but it is the incremental nature of this particular change and its attachment to new exclusives that is irritating. The shift from the GB>GBC>GBA were all pretty substantial changes in hardware in terms of what games looked like and how they played. There were major differences. Similarly, the shift from DS>DSi was a reasonably significant shift as well in terms of connectivity. But, even if that didn't appeal to you, the few exclusive DSi games were not really interesting anyway. With the shift to XL models or GBA-SP models you didn't lose out on any games or faster processors if you didn't upgrade, you just lost out on a new way to experience the same stuff.
With this iteration, if you don't get on board you both lose a better, faster system and you lose out on what looks to be at least one interesting exclusive in a well-regarded series.
Yes, I know it is "just video games" and yes, I know this is a bit pendantic…but it is a new kind of hardware iteration for them that just rubs me the wrong way.
