Personally they lost it when they didn’t incorporate 3DS backwards compatibility. Worst was that consumers were ok with that. Maybe it was because Nintendo could fool a younger generation with mediocre emulation.
People to this day want 3DS backwards compatibility but Nintendo isn’t to budge anytime soon. We gave that up when we accepted Switch with open arms and retired our 3DS. I was scoring New 3DSs for as low as $20. Tons of games left n right for $5 - $10 bucks. People abandoned the 3DS the same way people abandoned the NES back when the SNES first launched.
Nintendo handhelds had always had that niche of being backwards in compatible. Bringing the old to the new. But here we are. Yes the Switch 2 will play Switch games but there’s a whole 3DS line of games locked away in a whole other console format.
Now I’d you see the Switch game gallery, it’s a bunch of AAA games mixed with tons and tons of low quality flash-style games that look worse than a mobile phone game. Also, people aren’t stupid, they know what a decently powered machine is capable of playing/emulating.
I mean people made the same complaints when SNES couldn’t play NES games. There are even interviews with angry 90s parents at ToysRus about it. Didn’t stop them then.
Personally they lost it when they didn’t incorporate 3DS backwards compatibility. Worst was that consumers were ok with that. Maybe it was because Nintendo could fool a younger generation with mediocre emulation.
People to this day want 3DS backwards compatibility but Nintendo isn’t to budge anytime soon. We gave that up when we accepted Switch with open arms and retired our 3DS. I was scoring New 3DSs for as low as $20. Tons of games left n right for $5 - $10 bucks. People abandoned the 3DS the same way people abandoned the NES back when the SNES first launched.
Nintendo handhelds had always had that niche of being backwards in compatible. Bringing the old to the new. But here we are. Yes the Switch 2 will play Switch games but there’s a whole 3DS line of games locked away in a whole other console format.
Now I’d you see the Switch game gallery, it’s a bunch of AAA games mixed with tons and tons of low quality flash-style games that look worse than a mobile phone game. Also, people aren’t stupid, they know what a decently powered machine is capable of playing/emulating.
I mean people made the same complaints when SNES couldn’t play NES games. There are even interviews with angry 90s parents at ToysRus about it. Didn’t stop them then.
Backwards compatibility means lost opportunity to resell the same game.
-Nintendo Executive
3DS will come to a higher-cost monthly tier of NSO this generation, mark my words.