With the recent release of the Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask 3D Nintendo only added additional camera control if you are playing the game on the NEW 3DS hardware, but again if you have a circle pad pro accessory you can have access to this feature so it's far from an exclusive feature. Why couldn't Nintendo make an exclusive amiibo functionality for the NEW 3DS version or simply lock the frame rate or allow the player to use the ZL, ZR buttons ? Maybe Nintendo could use super smash brothers for 3ds as a bridge title and include the Ice Climbers as an exclusive character since the original 3ds can't handle the character in game. So far Nintendo has not done anything to help bridge the gap between game consoles like they did before.
With the 2015 holiday shopping season coming in a few months, what reason do parents have to upgrade their children’s 3DS models to the NEW 3DS outside of convenience, since not a single game uses the superior graphical processor ? Currently in the United States the NEW 3DS model retails for only $20 more than the previous 3DS XL model, so the decision to upgrade isn’t obvious. I understand that hardware manufactures want to give customers some time before abandoning the older hardware for the newer one, but it appears that Nintendo is totally ignoring the NEW 3DS hardware all together and hasn’t done anything to incentive the purchase of the NEW 3DS hardware. Up to my knowing not a single new exclusive game will be released for the NEW 3DS system within the next year. Seriously this is pathetic and brings in to question to why Nintendo even bothered releasing the new hardware to begin with. Nintendo could have released a new model of 3DS with the new inputs before, so why wait until now? Why does Nintendo even bother releasing this new hardware with better graphics card and faster processor if they don't plan on using it ?
I bought a NEW 3DS in February of this year because I wanted to be future proof and be able to purchase future exclusive games, so far that future is not materializing. This personal frustration is part of the reason for this editorial, because it doesn't seem like my purchase was worthwhile. It seems like the New 3DS hardware was only released as an afterthought to help generate some new sales and revenue to impress investors. It seems like Nintendo didn't make the NEW 3DS to make new games that couldn't be done before with the previous hardware. I understand this is part of the business world, but without any exclusive content the sales spike the NEW 3DS initial had will not continue . The NEW 3DS sales have been even better in Japan so it's even more strange that no new exclusive games have been announced for the NEW 3DS hardware considering that it'd been so popular in Nintendo's homeland .The NEW Nintendo 3DS has sold fairly well in the short time it’s been available in the market, but if Nintendo wants the sales to continue it must outline a plan for the future.
If Nintendo isn’t supporting the NEW 3DS hardware with exclusive games, why should 3rd party and indie game developers even bother? By Nintendo not supporting NEW 3DS early on it creates a horrible precedent and gives consumers no reason to upgrade and 3rd parties have little incentive to make games if they don't even see Nintendo paving the way. The NEW 3DS owners are a smaller userbase which can't grow without the promise of exclusive games. Nintendo has started a negative feedback loop that guarantees less sales of the hardware in the short term and more upset investors in the long term . This negative feedback loop is insidious, no software support causes less sales of the hardware and less sales of hardware equates to less software being made for the hardware and so forth. Nintendo needs to break this loop now and announce some exclusive NEW 3ds games soon or else this hardware will eventually fail. The original Nintendo 3DS had a rough start as Nintendo had to drop the price of the system only a few months after release and created an ambassador program to help allivate frustustration of early adopters. The 3DS had limited 3rd party support from the start and it dried up quickly because of low sales or the hardware. The negative feedback loop has already happened before and it seems like Nintendo is not paying attention and allowing it to happen again. Has Nintendo not learned anything from there previous mistakes? Why can't Nintendo make smaller scale games that are exclusive to the NEW 3DS on the e-shop to help showcase what the system can do? In a recent Kotaku article the President of Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aime commented on the possibility of the smaller 3DS releasing in America and more NEW 3DS exclusive games coming soon. Sadly the President's answers were vague and generic in nature . Essentially the President of Nintendo of America is just dancing around the several unanswered questions that need to be resolved. In fact the entire launch surrounding the NEW 3DS has been filled with many unanswered questions. Why such a large delay between Japanese and American launches? Why wasn't a exclusive game available at launch of the system? Will the NEW 3DS hardware be the last hardware to use stereoscopic 3D? Will Nintendo have a direct presentation in the future detailing the future of the NEW 3DS?
