User blog:AceTanooki/Rant: My first rant omgzzz

Ohai. This is going to be me attempting ranting about something random that I happen to hate. And, obviously because of my nature it's going to be about Nintendo.

Alright, let me paint the picture here for you: ''You're a little kid, and the 3DS comes out. All your favourite Nintendo titles in 3D! You ask your parents to buy it for your birthday, Christmas, Hanukkah, whatever. A few months later an even newer system comes out in stores. What is it, you may ask? The 3DS XL. No new games, no new anything, just the same exact thing for more money.''

...Obviously, I know it's got these new bigger screens, and the stylus has been moved and stuff like that, but I still think it's the stupidest thing ever. Why waste your money on a 3DS XL when you bought the 3DS a couple of months ago for even less? I know that Nintendo had a few minor mistakes with the 3DS and wanted to fix them, but is it really that important? From my point of view and probably a lot of other people's it's just Nintendo being greedy and wanting to get more money out of it, since they did the same exact thing with the DSi XL one or two years ago and that apparently worked.

Now, I'm going to show you a video on YouTube that I happened to have found while looking for material for this...



Now, may you be warned: This is going to contain a lot of opinion giving and a lot of refrences to the video, so I suggest you watch it, but you don't have to.

Alright, I'm going to be attacking three major points he made during this video. The first one...

#1 - It's too small
I don't know if I got the Godzilla of 3DS's or something, but my 3DS is the same exact size as the old DS, maybe even a bit bigger. And did we need a DS XL? What was the first thing that comes to your mind when you play something on it: "Wow, I can't believe this is 3D! I wouldn't want anything to change about this whatsoever!" or "This console is way too small. It's so small I'm going to go play Atari. That's much bigger!" Unless you loved 8-bit graphics, probably not the latter.

#2 - The stylus was awkwardly placed
There's some truth in this one, but people only think this because of the stylus being in the same place on every DS console yet. On my first day of playing on a 3DS I was as adept as scratching at the side of the console to drag the stylus out as anybody, but then you'd find it's actually at the top of the system. This could cause a little trouble for a while, but it's not that big of a deal. And, I for one am now used to the stylus being on top rather than on the side, and I'm sure some others are too. It's just change that people weren't used to and would be used to if they stopped complaining about it. (Wow, ranting about people complaining. Oh, the irony...)

And now, for probably my biggest reason to hate this review, the last one...

#3 - Listen. Just... listen.
"We felt our favourite games were wasted on such a tiny screen."

...Okay. Okay, just hold it a second there. Tell me, what games were wasted? Later on, he says that he and his friend were playing through both Resident Evil Revilations and Mario Kart 7. Now, as faaaaaaaaar as I'm concerned, both of these games have home console counterparts (Resident Evil 5 and Mario Kart Wii) that are pretty much exactly the same as the games on the handhelds. I know people are going to point out that they are not the same game, but it's more off the line to say that they were WASTED.

"It's hard to imagine that we ever played these games on such a small screen in the first place."

More importantly, two of my favourite games on the 3DS are remakes of two other games, Star Fox 3D and LoZ: Ocarina of Time 3D, which are remakes of Star Fox 64 and LoZ: Ocarina of Time respectively. If it's such a crime to play a game on the 3DS, why are people playing these instead of their N64 counterparts? <_>

...Boy, this turned out to be a rant on a review of it rather than a rant on the console itself. xD

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