Uh... who cares? Well I guess some people do, I just don't understand why. People didn't blow a fucking gasket when the Wii Motion Plus came out.

If they do the ridiculous as Patrick described in the post, and Iwata brings out a new 3DS with a second circle pad, at a cheaper price, and all the other shit, then I should be able to go into my local games store and do a straight trade for that shit. I've gotten use out of my 3DS, and it's a cool bit of hardware, but I'd much rather have my £65 difference that I lost out on in the price drop than ANOTHER fucking set of classic Nintendo games that I've already fucking played and completed.

I mean yeah, the GBA games are gonna be cool, but for fuck sake Nintendo. Sort it the FUCK out.

I really don't like Monster Hunter.

@Atramentous: cool ..hey you want to buy my dualshock 3 with no start button and in 6 months i'll sell you a sweet start button to you for a great price ok? im not ripping you off i promise. :P

After the Ambassador Programme following the price drop, do we envisage a Special Envoy to the High Commissioner Programme upcoming?

@YukoAsho said:

@Everyones_A_Critic said:

I really should sell the fucking thing. I got suckered into adopting early and since then I've yet to play a single game on it that I really enjoy playing. I gave Ridge Racer 3D a shot, but racing games just don't hold my interest. I even bought fucking Ocarina of Time and it just bored the shit out of me (yeah, yeah, yeah, save it fanboys). I couldn't give two shits about this add-on. It's not like the Wii Motion Plus was used much by 3rd party developers, same with that balance board. I just want a fucking game to play, is that too much to ask Nintendo? And I'd prefer if there was actually, you know, one or two third party developers that would actually support the thing instead of loading it with shovelware (with Namco and Capcom being the only two real exceptions). /rant.

You know, I'd be totally fine with Nintendo being the only publisher for their hardware if they'd just stray from the mascots and non-gaming software. The company lives almost exclusively on nostalgia, and it was tiresome around the GameCube era.

Couldn't agree more. I saw Star Fox 64 3D and was suckered in by nostalgia. I just found out that game comes out this Friday and, well, I wonder if I even want it anymore. It was really fun as a kid, but I don't know if it'll hold my interest now. At this point, I see myself getting Mario Kart and unlocking everything before I sell it off for good. I just don't have as much invested in Nintendo's mascot titles as I used to. It's funny, because shortly after getting the 3DS I picked up a Gamecube for $30 and got much more use out of that.

@Warchief said:

Nintendo fans will accept anything the company does because they have blinders on. We are talking about a fan base that is 100% cool with buying the same games with the same mechanics from the same franchises without missing a beat.

Nintendo fans are sheep, its just that simple.

CUT MY LIFE INTO PIECES

THIS IS MY LAST RESORT

@Zaxex said:

It's just peripheral isn't it? Like the Guitar Hero add-on for another DS?

Probably makes sense in Japan, where Monster hunter is Call of Duty levels of popular.

What has this got to do with the 3DS as a system? Are they basing a revision on this Monster Hunter thing? Seems pretty irrelevant otherwise.

This.

I think it's silly to get upset about this. Worst case, they will bundle the add-on with "big" games that use it. If you don't play those games, then you don't need it.

Ok, now where does the disk drive and the 3DSX snap on to. It's alive! IT'S ALIVE!!

I can't wrap my head around how this would have ever been a good idea...not now anyway. This is the breaking point for Nintendo, they've been hit pretty hard with criticism over the last year, and the 3DS underperformed to such an extent that nintendo is attempting to salvage it in any way, shape and form. And even then, the best they can do is another thumbstick. These are the same people who managed to sell motion controls? The people who made hundreds of millions off of the wii and ds? I...I don't understand what's wrong with these people...we're all entitled to a few questionable decisions in our lives, but rarely do those decisions end up costing up a little more than some embarrassment. People are pissed, they wanted something substantial, something that would make purchasing a 3DS worthwhile, and yet they get this instead? Are nintendo living in a cave? On the bloody moon? Have they not gotten the freaking message already, because people seem to be yelling it loud and clear.  If this adds some major improvements to the console, it still won't draw people in, because they'll still have to buy it. And if you paid 250 quid on day one, you're hardly going to pay more for an addition that should have been part of the console in the first place. The 3DS has a fairly bad hardware design, and any additions should be aimed at fixing those problems for an affordable price.
 
Really makes you question whether they really had any plans for the 3DS or not, given the current track record.

I don't even care anymore. My dedicated N64 emulator can continue to sit on the shelf only to be brought out when another childhood game is updated and portable. Fucking lame.

I dont see how this devalues the system I bought. If its anything like the nunchuck it will probably cost nothing to produce and sell.

Mission accomplished, Patrick. The news will get site-hits.

I want to like this site, it has good content. But man is it a painful site to be a Nintendo fan on. On more Nintendo related sites the news goes up and down like every normal company, here it just seems like doom and gloom. Tiresome.

People will bitch about everything.

What's weird... I dislike most Japanese games. IMO: Dragon Quest is a pile of crap, Final Fantasy is goofy as hell, Mario is sorta blown out of proportion, I don't get Smash Bros., Kirby is dumb, Zelda hasn't progressed since 1998 ... I love Team Ico, though.

But then I buy Monster Hunter Freedom Unite for the PSP. At first it's a load of ass and difficult... but after a few hours time... I really, really, REALLY wanna get the next MH game on the Vita. I just love the combat aspect. It's unforgiving and requires your full attention. Playing co-op over AdHoc Party is some of the best time I've had with my PSP, and I wanna see more stateside of the series.

@Kjellm87: It's reporting, but there's no pretense of impartiality. If the people writing the articles think Nintendo is doing stupid thing after stupid thing, then they're going to say it. If you really have a hard time hearing people say "Man, that's really dumb, Nintendo", then you have bigger problems than that.

Nintendo worked alongside Capcom to tweak the layout of the Classic Controller Pro to ensure it would best compliment Monster Hunter Tri.

Should be: complement.

I don't really care.

This is arguably even more evidence that Japan, Nintendo especially, is becoming less relevant and more out of touch with what the majority want out of the game industry.

@NunsandRoses said:

@Kjellm87: It's reporting, but there's no pretense of impartiality. If the people writing the articles think Nintendo is doing stupid thing after stupid thing, then they're going to say it. If you really have a hard time hearing people say "Man, that's really dumb, Nintendo", then you have bigger problems than that.

Um,sure. But I think it gets out of hands at times.

It's not even funny how ignorant Nintendo is. Not anymore. It's just sad now, especially for a company that was at the top of it's game a few years ago. It's that stupid mindset of their's that brought them success, and is now bringing them utter failure. 

3DX, Nuff said.

That picture of the new add-on is from a subsection of an article specifically about Monster Hunter, and the jumbo text surrounding the image says, "MH3(tri-)G Secret Weapon: Expansion Slide-Pad", and "Installs easily and allows more comfortable hunting." There's not really anything indicating that it is going to be anything more than an optional accessory specifically for MH.

Much like the 3DS itself, this really isn't that big of a deal.

Welp, there goes my buy for a 3DS still, I was so close to going ahead and diving in with the crimson one, but I think there might be another hardware revision along the life of the system.

People will bitch about everything.

At first this just had me confused, but there's no evidence yet that this is gonna be used for anything other than Monster Hunter. I'll hold off on the fury until I have more information, since I'm not just an angry internet asshole.

@EgoCheck616 said:

Fuck everything about this. I hope GameStop enjoys their my used Nintendo 3DS.

You could just not buy the thing. This isn't world-shattering, end-of-days stuff. Calm down.

@Kjellm87 said:

Mission accomplished, Patrick. The news will get site-hits.

I want to like this site, it has good content. But man is it a painful site to be a Nintendo fan on. On more Nintendo related sites the news goes up and down like every normal company, here it just seems like doom and gloom. Tiresome.

Then go to the more Nintendo related sites. I'm not sure what the complaint is here. This very topic is on almost every gaming blog/forum and a lot of folks are heated about it. How is this in any way Patrick trying to get site-hits?

I'll contain my hate until the press conference.

This is why I'v kept my DS Lite for so long. Because nintendo has slacked on the handhelds for a good couple of years lately. 

Vita, here I come.

Looks like waiting paid off, I'll pick up the inevitable revision next year.

@EveretteScott said:

I'm still not getting people being upset with this. Handhelds come out. Handhelds get changed and re-released. Same goes for consoles. Has something changed and this is different?

They don't usually drastically drop the price or have some hardware add-on in the same year it initially launched. People have a right to be upset about being burned on that, but of course there are always people who will take it to the extreme.

So I guess I won't change my plan to buy it when Kid Icarus comes out

If Nintendo shows a new 3DS next week, then I will sell mine and put that money towards the gaming PC I'm saving for. I cannot deal with anymore negative 3DS feelings. Playing actual new games at PAX helped, but I'm feeling pretty terrible now.

At first this just had me confused, but there's no evidence yet that this is gonna be used for anything other than Monster Hunter. I'll hold off on the fury until I have more information, since I'm not just an angry internet asshole.

I don't know which is more amazing, the terrible job Nintendo is doing with the 3DS or the contrary comment posters. This is badly handled news from Nintendo, plain and simple. The have recently upset the fan base with a quickly reduced price just five months into the system. Then, the announce this ambiguous add-on and fail to explain what it is. Maybe it is just a monster hunter add-on, but if this is a revision then good luck with that.

I got burned getting the Wii at launch. I love my DS. Going forward I said in my head that Nintendo would still be a part of my gaming time but exclusively on handhelds, that is where they have been the most consistent and the WiiU in my opinion looks like a joke. I've been thinking of getting a 3DS but this whole ordeal, along with the price slash so fast and no games to play, has officially made me give up on Nintendo. I'll be getting the Vita day 1 and I'll probably get a 360, unless Microsoft gives hints on a new console. I'll happily come back to Nintendo when they have something I'm somewhat interested in, I just don't know when that will be and from the looks ofnit not for awhile. Hopefully Space World 2011 will show us what Nintendo is made of.

@lizzard2 said:

@Atramentous: cool ..hey you want to buy my dualshock 3 with no start button and in 6 months i'll sell you a sweet start button to you for a great price ok? im not ripping you off i promise. :P

No thanks, I will pass.   See what I did there to avoid being "ripped off"? The gaming community at large is so full of unfounded entailment that its ridiculous. We want new shit but we bitch about change. We bitch about things we didnt ask for even if they aren't forced down our throats. This Op Ed disguised as a news article is just throwing raw meat to rabid dogs. 

I've lost faith in Nintendo. Everything about the 3DS has been handled poorly. The Wii was terrible for enthusiasts. Hell, man I LOVED my GameCube, but this shit is bad.

@Blubba: I loved my Gamecube as well. Truly, madly, deeply loved it in fact.

When did Giant Bomb turn into Kotaku? :(. This kind of sensationalist editorializing seems more suited for a Gawker site.

Nintendo is doing something? AGAIN? OH WHEN WILL THEY EVER LEARN TO STOP DOING STUFF! Break out the torches boys this time it's wa- wait. No it's just another thing people are over reacting on. Nevermind. Carry on.

@Blubba said:

I've lost faith in Nintendo. Everything about the 3DS has been handled poorly. The Wii was terrible for enthusiasts. Hell, man I LOVED my GameCube, but this shit is bad.

Hey man you are forgetting the DS. While DSiware and the iterations after the Lite were a shit show the DS Lite is probably the best handheld Nintendo has made and had great first party and third party support (this is coming from someone who loves the PSP more than the DS but can admit the DS is better in almost every way).

Makes me wonder why the hell they didn't build in a second pad in the first place. After all the crap Sony got for not putting a second analog stick on the PSP, you'd think Nintendo might nip that problem in the bud with the 3DS. With MGS3DS and Resident Evil Mercenaries/Revelations it certainly seemed like they planned on putting near-console quality games on it that rivaled the PSP in quality. But maybe I'm wrong. It makes me think they just decided they wanted to go full on "console quality games on a portable route."

HAY GUYS ANOTHER ANALOG STICK? ONLY ONE GAME?! OH WELL FUCK ME, I HATE OPTIONS THAT I'D DON'T HAVE TO BUY INTO. GOOD THING IT'S NOT A REDESIGN.