As a Minecraft 3DS owner, this game is my whole personality. Whenever someone asks me how my day is going I say “well I own Minecraft on the New Nintendo 3DS so pretty good” and then whoever asked me leaves. Please help me I have no friends
12:28 If I remember correctly, Runbow Pocket was New 3DS exclusive because it ran on Unity and Unity support was not available on the original 3DS but was on the New 3DS.
From what I heard. It's just that the Unity Engine took up too much memory, so the actual game had to be incredibly simple. Apparently there was a game on the eShop which was basically a tech demo showing how stupidly simple the game had to be to run on the old 3ds.
3DS played Unity games as well. The Box Boy games are done in Unity as well. But sure, the RAM overhead propably did not matter for a sinple game like Box Boy
I worked at a local video game store between 2015-2018. The number of parents I had to triple check that they were getting the right 3DS model for their kids for a gift. I was not dealing with them coming back and telling me they got the wrong 'New' 3DS. 3DS, XL, New, New XL, 2DS, New 2DS XL.
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..." Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
@@kacperzimowski4626blud, Scott is talking about Xenoblade specifically. We all know that the 3DS hardware isn't as impressive as psp, psvita, or other handheld consoles at the time, but it's just the fact that being able to play Xenoblade on the 3DS with no lag is already impressive. Stop taking things out of context, lil bro
@@kacperzimowski4626 Why do you have to reply to everyone with this? Are you desperate for attention? Xenoblade is MASSIVE, squeezing all of that content on a NINTENDO handheld just a few short years after it released on console isn't common FOR NINTENDO. You need to relax.
Interesting thing about the microSD card in New 3DS systems is that there is a feature that allows you to connect your 3DS to your computer network and access the files on your New 3DS's SD card remotely without removing the battery cover every time. Only problem is that it only works if you're running Windows 7 or 8. And Microsoft launched Windows 10 the same year as the launch of the New 3DS in North America. And Nintendo never updated it to allow compatibility with Windows 10.
as someone who just got a new 3ds for christmas this year, you CAN get it to work on a windows 10, but it requires sabotaging a security measure that was the reason the networking function was disabled in the first place 😭
@@girzarroYeah, it took an extra step, but I got it to work just fine after that. Made it nice and easy to put the new Vitual Boy emulator and games onto my hacked New 3DS. Now I can finally play those games that I thot I'd never play.
Yeah it's nice but it's so slow for transferring games. Also the slot is finicky I have to remove the battery, add the sd card, check if it works; and repeat until it's detected
You were right about Runbow. They brought it to the New 3DS only because the game was made in Unity, and Nintendo only provided a Unity exporter for New 3DS, not Old 3DS. So yeah, it was basically just easier for them to do it that way.
I love C Stick!!! It's technically pressure sensitive, not touch sensitive. It's extremely analogue, basically like a mouse! More pressure, the faster the camera moves!
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..." Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
@kacperzimowski4626 ...Bro, are you serious? Those games are a *lot* smaller than Xenoblade. It's not the graphics, it's that it's running on a 3DS *at all* with the only significant change being a graphical downgrade as the original was on a much more powerful system. And yes, the Wii was much more powerful than the New 3DS models. And despite not looking that great, Xenoblade is one of the most demanding games on the system. Considering how many console games used to be *butchered* in the transition from console to handheld, even years between, it's pretty good. The only version of Xenoblade that actually looks good is the Switch version.
My biggest complaint about the C stick, by far, is that games just don't use it! Same with ZL and ZR. Looking at you, Etrian Odyssey! Nexus came out two years after the Switch!
6:23 as someone who has played over 200 hours of 3DS isaac, i can tell you EXACTLY why it is new 3DS only. it can barely handle that game WITH the extra processing power, i cant imagine how disastrous itd be to try to run that game on original 3DS (plus the original 3ds doesnt have enough buttons for stuff like bombs, active items, cards/pills and the drop button, although those are mapped to the touchscreen in the new 3ds version so i guess it couldve worked)
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..." Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
@@augcanella6498I dunno about that one, but if an engine is not officially supported on a console then you can still port games to it. Batman Arkham Knight runs on UE3 despite having no support on PS4/XB1, just as an example. The problem is that you'll need to put in extra work to make it possible. That work also varies, depending on what engine features you're using, since some are harder to transfer than others.
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..." Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
Xenoblade 3D is the way many people in North America were introduced to Xenoblade as a series due to the Wii version being screwed over. I really appreciate it for that.
Scott really underestimated how much powerful the new 3ds is compared to the old one, and Im surprised he didn't mention that European new 3ds exclusives were in black
Part of the problem is it's hard to do direct comparisons that show much difference. Forcing 3DS games to run with the full New 3DS clock speed often doesn't do much.
@@SnakebitSTIActually many old 3ds games run a lot better on n3ds if you use homebrew to "OC" it, especially games with unstable or uncapped framerates like rayman 3D or tales of the abyss will play super smoothly in 3D. And if you do the reverse, the n3ds games in pseudo o3ds speed will be in slide show.
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..." Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
For the record, a majority of the "New 3DS exclusive" games on the 3DS eShop were that way because the New 3DS added Unity support. That's almost definitely why Runbow was a New 3DS exclusive, too, as it was made in Unity.
The 4 physical New 3DS games in the US is still double of what Europe got. Only Xenoblade Chronicles 3D and Fire Emblem Warriors released physically here, which is really odd. They came in black boxes though, which look really cool.
Short answer on Isaac Rebirth on New 3DS: that game leans harder into being a bullet hell so the number of projectiles and their individual effects (as the hundreds of pickups affect your tears) tax the RAM, and the original 3DS wouldn’t have enough for the later bosses’ attacks and the item stacking that makes the game so engaging. You can actually crash the N3DS game with the right combination of projectile effects, which would usually just lag the other versions of the game. The mobile version of Isaac took several years to get its DLC mostly just because phones were getting powerful enough to consistently handle the newer stuff like Hush without needing to build workarounds or lower the projectile count.
BOI is super overrated and there’s no reason the game should be anywhere near $40 for a game with 16 bit graphics that struggles to run on modern hardware
@@ActuallyAthena It’s a random edgelord Zelda level generator “bullet hell” sold for way too much for what it offers. Nothing wrong with a 16 bit look if there is something of substance though.
@@RobotacularRoBob"It's sold way too much for what it offers" wth do You mean have You ever played the game?? Are You speaking about the N3DS version only or what? I can understand the many DLCs being a pain in the ass when it comes to the final price but i've been playing it for many years and I have spent 400+ hours on it easily It has a lot to offer really
I got one for the improved 3D mostly (had an original XL before), and it delivered on that. But it was also nice to have the console feel snappier and not take ages to boot up Smash. Built-in NFC support also made the occasional amiibo use more convenient.
My 3ds broke, but best buy (where I got mine) offered to upgrade it. I got the new 3DS purely to play EarthBound. I owned a wii u already. How did I not know it was on there.
for mee EarthBound on the go was all i had really wanted at the time on top of other SNES VC games, I HAD to buy it on New 3DS & Wii U. now it's on Switch i can still take it on the go but with a bigger screen lmao
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..." Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
New 3DS and Xbox One did this crazy thing where they made me change how I talked about game consoles. I could no longer refer to 3DS consoles as “new” without referring to an entirely separate console, and I could no longer refer to the original Xbox as the Xbox 1.
Yeah never understood why people complained about the original start and select buttons on the bottom. Sure it feels somewhat cheaper, but when I was younger with my OG 3DS XL, I never noticed them being worse than my other controllers for other systems like the PS3. They do feel a bit spongey though, and the N3DS revisions are much more click-y which is nice.
The ergonomics would be horrible if they moved the face buttons down, since the vast majority of 3DS games assume the standard 3DS layout. Then they would have been equally bad if the second stick was down there, at least for games that used it. The problem isn't the space, it's the cramped form factor. The Start/Select placement doesn't matter since you don't spend time in games mashing those buttons.
@@leonro no I mean the spot where the start and select buttons are, if they were still in the middle like on the original that section could fit a circle pad
@@YoungMrBlue And that's why I said that it doesn't work if you have either the face buttons down or the right stick down. I once played a 2D game with the D-Pad, and it was quite uncomfortable, even borderline painful at times. That position is really unfit for long use. Even on the Switch, shooters would be horrible if not for gyro taking away the need for precise aiming via the sticks.
Pokémon Sun & Moon (and I assume US/UM?) are _technically_ new 3DS games as well! They’ll still run on the originals, but the decreased processing power means they have to reboot into a special minimal firmware without the 3DS OS (like how it boots DS games) so they can use all of the cpu for the game.
Minecraft is actually a super memory-intensive game. The original 3DS only had 64mb of ram. Even on the new 3DS minecraft just chugs along once you've explored your map
Huh, weird that your New N3DS games are white case in the states. They differentiated them into black cases in the UK. The cover art banner was black too, with white text.
Cool, wish that we got that. Also it wasn't just the States, New 3DS copies across North America (Canada, USA) got the white cases with the logo on top.
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..." Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
Was very annoying how Majora’s Mask 3D was a launch title for the system and yet it didn’t even make use of the better processing power despite the desperate need for it with all the framerate drops the game had when playing in 3D. At least it used the C-Nipple for camera…
In Europe, at least, exclusive New Nintendo 3DS games had black borders boxart and I really like that. You can distinguish them from the 'normal' 3DS games. I have my Xenoblade Chronicles 3D with that black bordered boxart.
“I always wanted to be THAT guy!” Well tough luck, you’re not that guy. You’re THAT guy that owns all the New 3DS retail releases, System Flaw for DSi, and Sonic Jam. You’re just gonna have to live with that.
Honestly I wonder if enabling the 3D made the framerate worse, because it's rendering graphics on that screen twice lmao... Yeah that's for sure the reason Fire Emblem Warriors doesn't use the stereoscopic effect - no implementation at all for that.
@@_SereneMango most likely. But Hyrule Warriors Legends did support 3D and that’s an even older game. It’s not like FEW looks that much if at all better?
In relation to Minecraft on New 3DS, it DID actually come with the Mario DLC pack from the Wii U version, though I don't know how many other DLC packs were in it as well.
I never had a 3DS until recently, and I nver knew that nub was a c-stick. I straight up thought it was just a little rubber foot to stop the screens from scratching each other when you close it or something.
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..." Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
Button placement for the 3DS ports of Zelda titles never felt comfortable on an original model for me personally. They were perfect on newer models though
It also runs certain games better. Its kind of like the PS5 in a way. Not many exclusive games, but many regular 3DS games benefit from the controls and performance (though they need to explicitly support the New™ performance) Booting up Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate when I got my New XL model was fantastic. The game ran so much smoother and the new controls helped a lot!
I don't know how Facebook Messenger works but you have to keep refreshing the 3DS every time otherwise you won't see any new messages. So at least if your phone breaks You still have some way to communicate with people.
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..." Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
Not to mention that the fastest fan made emulator is missing various visual effects due to using the GPU to render everything. The only way to render the SNES correctly on a 3DS is with the CPU, and that puny little 200MHz ARMv6 is not up to the task. But sure, Scott - 'they should totally work on the Old 3DS because... I mean, come on, they're SNES games!' - that's _totally_ how emulation works.
The OG 3DS absolutely could not run SNES games; good SNES emulation is harder than it looks. Modders were eventually able to make it work on OG 3DS, but it only performs well thanks to tireless work and by skipping certain visual effects (like the rising and lowering lava in Super Metroid). The emulation devs said they totally understood why Nintendo didn't do it. Plus, the New 3DS's CPU is actually quite a lot more powerful than the OG 3DS: 3-6x more powerful and with a lot more L2 Cache. won't stand for this slander anymore Imao
Hunnid percent, Minecraft barely ran on the new 3DS with way more horsepower. Ain't no way it was working on the original, even the clones built from the ground up for the console stuttered and lagged.
Let's stop being delusional. Nintendo is just lazy. Blaming the console for not powerful enough and not their inability to properly optimising their games for the hardware they are developing it to. Nintendo just cutting corners and using the consumers as free beta testers instead of hiring actual beta testers to look for problems before releasing the games publicly.
As a 2DSXL owner, I was disappointed by the lack of games that actually made use of the "C Stick" and especially the ZL/ZR buttons. I always wondered why they bothered to add those
They added them to make Circlepad Pro features standard. But apparently Nintendo didn't lean on developers to use the features. Regular 3DS games can support the C stick and ZL and ZR, they just... don't.
I remember wanting the new 3ds but i was so humble i was just asked my parents to get me a refurbished new 3ds for Christmas little did i know they went and got me a Brand New New 3ds XL and I was so grateful fot it
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..." Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
I actually was a frequent player of New 3DS Edition Minecraft, and it was the first version I beat the Ender Dragon legitimately on Did I have other versions I could've done that on? Yes. But it was funny
Xenoblade 3d was special bc I never had home consoles growing up and I didn’t get the wii u until two months after the game released. So having such a big and majestic game on a handheld felt amazing at the time. Yea the graphics were a bit meh but it worked, so happy it got tweaked in the definitive edition years later for the perfect experience. And after smash 3ds being my first smash game, I was thirsty for exploring all of nintendo’s other franchises than just pokemon. So Xenoblade and Majora’s mask releasing months later with the n3ds and Oot and FE already being on 3ds was just perfect. Good good times.
3DS fanboy detected. You had some great DSi games on DSi. Zelda: 4 Swords, Undead Storm, MotoCross Extreme, Shantae Risky Revange, Viking Invasion, Jagged Alliance + You could play all DS games smoother on DSi with more fps.
Majora’s Mask 3D wasn’t a New 3DS exclusive, but it did have an exclusive feature on the system. Freecam movement with the second “stick” It’s pretty nice, but not required to play the game, especially considering the original N64 release had no freecam.
I played Xenoblade Chronicles for the first time on my modded N2DSXL because I'm not really an RPG guy and didn't wanted to buy the Switch version for 60$. Since then I bought Xeno 2 and 3 on my Switch, and gonna buy the first one to re-experience it in glorious HD. And honestly... I'm thinking about to buy a Wii U for Xenoblade Chronicles X only. And it all happened because of the New 3DS port of the first game and became a Xeno fan for life.
@underkoverist5254 Ambitious and well-written stories with powerful themes, creative environments and locales that make a cohesive and immersive world, deep gameplay systems that offer variety in playstyle and reward dedicated players, and some of the absolute best music ever produced by mankind.
"Why wouldn't SNES games run on an original 3DS?" You'd be surprised; emulation can bring a significant overhead that means it mightn't be able to run smoothly if the hardware is limited enough. I've tried a bit of SNES emulation on o3DS through modding, and the performance isn't all that great with some pretty crackly audio at times. I don't know if Nintendo could've done better, or if I just tried the wrong emulator, but I'm inclined to believe that the new model was required for SNES emulation.
And yet these days SNES games runs pretty much perfect on the Old 3DS models, the emulators just weren't fully optimized for the hardware at that time.
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..." Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
Here is a technical explanation for Runbow: Runbow is built on top of the Unity game engine which only supported the new 3DS line (at least officially, I heard that there were some not-recommended settings that would allow a game to run on an original 3DS model but they never ran well, even on completely blank scenes). So you're correct, they'd have had to rebuild the entire game from the ground up in order for it to not suffer horrendous framerates (or probably not run at all).
One thing they should have kept from the original 3DS XL is the 3 buttons on the bottom if the touch screen. I like how they were actual physically separate buttons. Not like the original 3DS with the weird plastic sheet covering the home, start, and select buttons that would warp and become indented and damaged over time.
I know the nub gets a lot of shit but honestly i love the way they made it work. Not only does it work better than you think it does (dont try to use it like a stick, use it like the mouse nub on a laptop), it also doesnt fuck with the form factor at all, its purely an addition to the console and its well placed too. Seriously give it a shot, you'll be surprised.
At this point Scott has taught me more than my school teachers. I have gone my whole life thinking the new 3ds only had one exclusive. That being xenoblade chronicles. Now I know it had a few more games
Minecraft 3ds was planned to have 3d, but Minecraft 3ds got discontinued, at one point Minecraft java did have a 3d anaglyph mode, but it got cut in later versions.
4:43 My theory for why SNES Virtual Console games were restricted to only New 3DS systems: they needed the ZL and ZR button combination to allow you to switch to the player 2 controller on the fly for two-player hotseat games. You couldn't use the L and R buttons for that like with NES Virtual Console, as those are used by the game... as is every button on the original 3DS aside from HOME (and the touch screen used to access the Suspend menu).
@@kyridoulou ‘Cause I doubt it’d be intuitive to have to open the Suspend menu each time you wanted to switch players, especially in a hotseat game like Super Mario World
I once almost bought a New 3DS long after it's life was over so I could play Xenoblade Chronicles for the first time without having to look for a Wii. I decided it would've been easier to just buy a Switch and the enhanced edition. I can sure say I definitely bought a Switch.
I think of all the upgraded systems the one that was the best with the Game Boy color. There's so many exclusive Game Boy color games and games that can be enhanced when played on a Game Boy color. And on the other hand I remember hearing Microsoft and Sony straight up saying that the Xbox One X and PS4 pro wouldn't get any exclusive games like they literally didn't allow 3rd party developers to make exclusive games for them.
I had all the 3ds's back when. The new 3ds made me believe it would have enough exclusives to justify the purchase. I'm never doing that again. If I can't wait for the better version, I'm keeping the launch system and just playing the games that I can.
Nintendo loves the word "new" because it's actually the word ”しん"(shin) which is often literally translated that way but is a more general word covering concepts like sequels, rookies, etc. Like many things translated literally it makes way more sense in Japanese.
Wild. I was going to argue that Wii U made Xenoblade Chronicles available for anyone who had a Wii U digitally, and that might beat the New 3DS release, but that actually happened a year later. Except Europe, Europe got it on Wii U shop first on same 2015 year and half a year before US. And Japan got that release last. What the heck is up with Xenoblade?
When i lost my original 3DS (from launch day), all the new 3DSs had come out already so replaced it with a New 2DS XL, which is such a mouthful. Works well though
Just one thing i miss about the DS series of consoles is the shell form factor that protects the screen and buttons so you can actually put it in your pocket, not like the Switch and Steam deck that needs a case.
Slightly off topic but I'm never gonna forget this. A few days after the first Christmas the 3DS was new someone put a copy of Super Mario 3D Land on eBay and they were selling it because they did not realize it wasn't compatible with the normal DS. So some people can't tell the difference.
Someone might have mentioned this already but when Xenoblade came for the New 3ds the game case was black plastic instead of white. At least here in Finland. You can find view images if you google it but seems to be a rare of a sight. I think it would have been a cooler and more clear way to tell the customer that "Hey this isn't a regular game and only works with the new consoles"
After beating and falling in love with Xenoblade 2 on the Switch, I wanted to play the first game as well. Due to the original Wii version being so expensive, I opted to get the 3DS version and absolutely loved it. While it definitely looks a bit rough, I'd say it's one of the most technically and graphically impressive games I've ever played *relative to the hardware it's on.* I really just have no idea how Monolith and Monster Games were able to take one of the most expansive and graphically impressive games released on the Wii and squeeze it onto the 3DS... and to top it all off, I don't recall ever having any performance issues.
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..." Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
The only reason i ever got a new 3DS was to play xenoblade chronicles. The 3DS version is still damn good but id much rather play the original wii version or the definitive edition on the switch now. I was messing around with my modded 3ds and with that you can force it to run games like with original 3ds specs and just out of curiosity I decided to do that with Xenoblade and yeah that most definitely NEEDED to be on the new 3DS, it does not run very well at all like that.
The New 3ds confuses me, like is it a different console like the ds and 3ds, or is it the same console just another variation of the 3ds? They both seem the same, but the new 3ds has exclusives which is weird.
As a Minecraft 3DS owner, this game is my whole personality. Whenever someone asks me how my day is going I say “well I own Minecraft on the New Nintendo 3DS so pretty good” and then whoever asked me leaves. Please help me I have no friends
I bought a New 2DS a month before the eShop shut down just to get the Minecraft 3DS DLC, I'm not kidding.
How's your day?
@@LAST_STAND_FANHack it if you can, they are far more enjoyable once you open it up.
Making niche games your personality is so good.
My gimmick is owning Mineacrft 3ds AND Cars 3 the video game
@@LAST_STAND_FANI mean you could get it at any time for free with a hacked 3ds and Hshop
New 3DS XL: Better 3D
Nintendo: *Stops making games with the 3D function*
Foreal though wtf😂
July 2017 ( after the Switch was released ) : New 2DS XL!
Tbf the 3D on the new systems is ass still. I think I find it even more disorienting and even headache-inducing compared to original 3DS.
@@AzureRT456 Nice try Sony
@@OniCr0w what is this supposed to mean
12:28 If I remember correctly, Runbow Pocket was New 3DS exclusive because it ran on Unity and Unity support was not available on the original 3DS but was on the New 3DS.
From what I heard. It's just that the Unity Engine took up too much memory, so the actual game had to be incredibly simple. Apparently there was a game on the eShop which was basically a tech demo showing how stupidly simple the game had to be to run on the old 3ds.
3DS played Unity games as well. The Box Boy games are done in Unity as well.
But sure, the RAM overhead propably did not matter for a sinple game like Box Boy
@@otozinclus3593 BOXBOY! + BOXGIRL! on Switch was made in Unity; the 3DS games were not.
it can do that??? what the hell??
I worked at a local video game store between 2015-2018. The number of parents I had to triple check that they were getting the right 3DS model for their kids for a gift. I was not dealing with them coming back and telling me they got the wrong 'New' 3DS.
3DS, XL, New, New XL, 2DS, New 2DS XL.
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..."
Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
@@kacperzimowski4626blud, Scott is talking about Xenoblade specifically. We all know that the 3DS hardware isn't as impressive as psp, psvita, or other handheld consoles at the time, but it's just the fact that being able to play Xenoblade on the 3DS with no lag is already impressive.
Stop taking things out of context, lil bro
@@kacperzimowski4626 Why do you have to reply to everyone with this? Are you desperate for attention? Xenoblade is MASSIVE, squeezing all of that content on a NINTENDO handheld just a few short years after it released on console isn't common FOR NINTENDO. You need to relax.
How did Nintendo not learn from the confusion around the name "Wii U"?
@@kacperzimowski4626clean yo ass there's a fly on yo forehead
I could've sworn Scott made this already
He made the 3DS one, not the new 3DS one
I think its just a snippet of his 3ds video
@@victorlinares4137 the Scotts stash videos are pretty much always their own videos. Just unscripted, him rambling about whatever he feels like.
"This video was originally released via Card #29 of the Scott The Woz Collectible Trading Cards in late 2022."
That was old 3ds xl
Can yall believe this NEW 3ds is like 9 years old!!!
Can’t wait for the Switch Pro to be called the “New Nintendo Switch”
@@JaredGoofballmy bet is its gonna be called switch pro or super switch
Next year it'll have been out a decade. Makes me feel like an old man and I'm 21 💀
I mean the Switch is 7 years old
@@acebr3akdefinitely not gonna be the switch pro that would be an awful name for a successor
Interesting thing about the microSD card in New 3DS systems is that there is a feature that allows you to connect your 3DS to your computer network and access the files on your New 3DS's SD card remotely without removing the battery cover every time.
Only problem is that it only works if you're running Windows 7 or 8. And Microsoft launched Windows 10 the same year as the launch of the New 3DS in North America.
And Nintendo never updated it to allow compatibility with Windows 10.
There's actually a setting in windows 10 that lets you use the feature, I used it for screenshots just last night
The WiFi connection is so slow that it can be faster to take the SD card out anyway.
as someone who just got a new 3ds for christmas this year, you CAN get it to work on a windows 10, but it requires sabotaging a security measure that was the reason the networking function was disabled in the first place 😭
@@girzarroYeah, it took an extra step, but I got it to work just fine after that. Made it nice and easy to put the new Vitual Boy emulator and games onto my hacked New 3DS. Now I can finally play those games that I thot I'd never play.
Yeah it's nice but it's so slow for transferring games. Also the slot is finicky I have to remove the battery, add the sd card, check if it works; and repeat until it's detected
You were right about Runbow. They brought it to the New 3DS only because the game was made in Unity, and Nintendo only provided a Unity exporter for New 3DS, not Old 3DS. So yeah, it was basically just easier for them to do it that way.
That explains why there's a lot of nN3DS shovelware
I think the thumb nub thing was genius. It actually worked without taking up a ton of space like a whole extra circle pad would.
I love C Stick!!!
It's technically pressure sensitive, not touch sensitive. It's extremely analogue, basically like a mouse! More pressure, the faster the camera moves!
Like a Thinkpad trackpoint 😍
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..."
Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
@kacperzimowski4626 ...Bro, are you serious? Those games are a *lot* smaller than Xenoblade.
It's not the graphics, it's that it's running on a 3DS *at all* with the only significant change being a graphical downgrade as the original was on a much more powerful system.
And yes, the Wii was much more powerful than the New 3DS models. And despite not looking that great, Xenoblade is one of the most demanding games on the system.
Considering how many console games used to be *butchered* in the transition from console to handheld, even years between, it's pretty good.
The only version of Xenoblade that actually looks good is the Switch version.
Don’t tell me what to do
My biggest complaint about the C stick, by far, is that games just don't use it! Same with ZL and ZR. Looking at you, Etrian Odyssey! Nexus came out two years after the Switch!
6:23 as someone who has played over 200 hours of 3DS isaac, i can tell you EXACTLY why it is new 3DS only. it can barely handle that game WITH the extra processing power, i cant imagine how disastrous itd be to try to run that game on original 3DS (plus the original 3ds doesnt have enough buttons for stuff like bombs, active items, cards/pills and the drop button, although those are mapped to the touchscreen in the new 3ds version so i guess it couldve worked)
Scott is the only content creator I will watch all new videos of sub topics he has already talked about 3 times before
There's just something fun and wholesome about his videos
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..."
Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
@@kacperzimowski4626Idk but you keep sending the same reply under multiple comments so maybe rethink how you spend your time 😃👍
@@seereebee he's just attempting to cheat the comment algorithm
Minecraft was supposed to get a 3d update but it never happened. Funnily enough the 3ds version has the largest map of any of the console releases.
It makes me sad they didnt do the update!
12:28 i assume the main reason runbow was new 3ds only was because of its engine (unity) only having support for the new 3ds and not the 3ds iirc
isnt the spongebob game that runs on the regular 3ds made on unity
@@augcanella6498I dunno about that one, but if an engine is not officially supported on a console then you can still port games to it. Batman Arkham Knight runs on UE3 despite having no support on PS4/XB1, just as an example.
The problem is that you'll need to put in extra work to make it possible. That work also varies, depending on what engine features you're using, since some are harder to transfer than others.
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..."
Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
@kacperzimowski4626 ...did u skip him saying it didn't look much better in the 3ds like 20 sec before that? bruh
@@len-len3661he's posted the same spam to about 10 comments here, he's just very mad lmao
Xenoblade 3D is the way many people in North America were introduced to Xenoblade as a series due to the Wii version being screwed over. I really appreciate it for that.
Especially with his smash debut giving Xenoblade a second wind of popularity
Yep, I got my New 3DS specifically to play Xenoblade 3D, since Smash got me interested in it.
I saw a copy for Wii in a 2nd and Charles for $160. Back then I was broke, so I bought the 3DS version... then I got the Switch version.
Yep my 1st ever blade game too.
Scott really underestimated how much powerful the new 3ds is compared to the old one, and Im surprised he didn't mention that European new 3ds exclusives were in black
Part of the problem is it's hard to do direct comparisons that show much difference. Forcing 3DS games to run with the full New 3DS clock speed often doesn't do much.
@@SnakebitSTIActually many old 3ds games run a lot better on n3ds if you use homebrew to "OC" it, especially games with unstable or uncapped framerates like rayman 3D or tales of the abyss will play super smoothly in 3D.
And if you do the reverse, the n3ds games in pseudo o3ds speed will be in slide show.
I love the fact that Xenoblade Chronicles 3D comes with a black box in europe, it makes it feel like a special event compared to other games.
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..."
Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
@@kacperzimowski4626you're confusing "pretty" with "good" sony ponies really need to learn the difference.
@@kacperzimowski4626stop copy pasting your comment everywhere i beg
@@kacperzimowski4626 were those on new nintendo 3ds?
For the record, a majority of the "New 3DS exclusive" games on the 3DS eShop were that way because the New 3DS added Unity support. That's almost definitely why Runbow was a New 3DS exclusive, too, as it was made in Unity.
And all the shovelware
The 4 physical New 3DS games in the US is still double of what Europe got.
Only Xenoblade Chronicles 3D and Fire Emblem Warriors released physically here, which is really odd. They came in black boxes though, which look really cool.
Short answer on Isaac Rebirth on New 3DS: that game leans harder into being a bullet hell so the number of projectiles and their individual effects (as the hundreds of pickups affect your tears) tax the RAM, and the original 3DS wouldn’t have enough for the later bosses’ attacks and the item stacking that makes the game so engaging. You can actually crash the N3DS game with the right combination of projectile effects, which would usually just lag the other versions of the game. The mobile version of Isaac took several years to get its DLC mostly just because phones were getting powerful enough to consistently handle the newer stuff like Hush without needing to build workarounds or lower the projectile count.
What's funny is that the new 3ds still chugs heavily on most rooms in the game
BOI is super overrated and there’s no reason the game should be anywhere near $40 for a game with 16 bit graphics that struggles to run on modern hardware
@@RobotacularRoBob It runs fine on switch and what's wrong with 16 bit?
@@ActuallyAthena It’s a random edgelord Zelda level generator “bullet hell” sold for way too much for what it offers. Nothing wrong with a 16 bit look if there is something of substance though.
@@RobotacularRoBob"It's sold way too much for what it offers" wth do You mean have You ever played the game?? Are You speaking about the N3DS version only or what?
I can understand the many DLCs being a pain in the ass when it comes to the final price but i've been playing it for many years and I have spent 400+ hours on it easily
It has a lot to offer really
C-stick isn't touch sensitive, it's pressure sensitive
Still trash they should have given everyone a circle pad pro
@@thechugg4372 of course
Oh yeah, forgot these existed. Primary reason i got an N3DS back then was primarily to play SNES VC, not these oddities.
I got one for the improved 3D mostly (had an original XL before), and it delivered on that. But it was also nice to have the console feel snappier and not take ages to boot up Smash. Built-in NFC support also made the occasional amiibo use more convenient.
My 3ds broke, but best buy (where I got mine) offered to upgrade it. I got the new 3DS purely to play EarthBound. I owned a wii u already. How did I not know it was on there.
@@TheChefBoo Eh, I had been emulating SNES on my phone long before owning a 3DS. I only use mine for native games + DS.
for mee EarthBound on the go was all i had really wanted at the time on top of other SNES VC games, I HAD to buy it on New 3DS & Wii U.
now it's on Switch i can still take it on the go but with a bigger screen lmao
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..."
Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
New 3DS and Xbox One did this crazy thing where they made me change how I talked about game consoles. I could no longer refer to 3DS consoles as “new” without referring to an entirely separate console, and I could no longer refer to the original Xbox as the Xbox 1.
1:38 the worst part is a regular circle pad could’ve fit if they hadn’t had moved the start and select buttons
Yeah never understood why people complained about the original start and select buttons on the bottom. Sure it feels somewhat cheaper, but when I was younger with my OG 3DS XL, I never noticed them being worse than my other controllers for other systems like the PS3. They do feel a bit spongey though, and the N3DS revisions are much more click-y which is nice.
The ergonomics would be horrible if they moved the face buttons down, since the vast majority of 3DS games assume the standard 3DS layout. Then they would have been equally bad if the second stick was down there, at least for games that used it. The problem isn't the space, it's the cramped form factor. The Start/Select placement doesn't matter since you don't spend time in games mashing those buttons.
@@leonro ok but they put the d-pad below the left stick and it works just fine and isn't uncomfortable
@@leonro no I mean the spot where the start and select buttons are, if they were still in the middle like on the original that section could fit a circle pad
@@YoungMrBlue And that's why I said that it doesn't work if you have either the face buttons down or the right stick down. I once played a 2D game with the D-Pad, and it was quite uncomfortable, even borderline painful at times. That position is really unfit for long use. Even on the Switch, shooters would be horrible if not for gyro taking away the need for precise aiming via the sticks.
Pokémon Sun & Moon (and I assume US/UM?) are _technically_ new 3DS games as well! They’ll still run on the originals, but the decreased processing power means they have to reboot into a special minimal firmware without the 3DS OS (like how it boots DS games) so they can use all of the cpu for the game.
Interesting
Minecraft is actually a super memory-intensive game. The original 3DS only had 64mb of ram. Even on the new 3DS minecraft just chugs along once you've explored your map
Sometimes Scott has a little cut on his hand. Sometimes he has a hangnail.
The REAL story is the evolution of Scott's hands.
Huh, weird that your New N3DS games are white case in the states. They differentiated them into black cases in the UK. The cover art banner was black too, with white text.
Cool, wish that we got that. Also it wasn't just the States, New 3DS copies across North America (Canada, USA) got the white cases with the logo on top.
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..."
Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
Was very annoying how Majora’s Mask 3D was a launch title for the system and yet it didn’t even make use of the better processing power despite the desperate need for it with all the framerate drops the game had when playing in 3D. At least it used the C-Nipple for camera…
In Europe, at least, exclusive New Nintendo 3DS games had black borders boxart and I really like that. You can distinguish them from the 'normal' 3DS games. I have my Xenoblade Chronicles 3D with that black bordered boxart.
“I always wanted to be THAT guy!”
Well tough luck, you’re not that guy. You’re THAT guy that owns all the New 3DS retail releases, System Flaw for DSi, and Sonic Jam. You’re just gonna have to live with that.
It’s a shame Fire Emblem Warriors didn’t get the stereoscopic 3D treatment they gave Hyrule Warriors Legends.
Honestly I wonder if enabling the 3D made the framerate worse, because it's rendering graphics on that screen twice lmao...
Yeah that's for sure the reason Fire Emblem Warriors doesn't use the stereoscopic effect - no implementation at all for that.
@@_SereneMango most likely. But Hyrule Warriors Legends did support 3D and that’s an even older game. It’s not like FEW looks that much if at all better?
In relation to Minecraft on New 3DS, it DID actually come with the Mario DLC pack from the Wii U version, though I don't know how many other DLC packs were in it as well.
I never had a 3DS until recently, and I nver knew that nub was a c-stick. I straight up thought it was just a little rubber foot to stop the screens from scratching each other when you close it or something.
I’m so glad I’m not the only one holy shit
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..."
Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
i had no idea what it was for until i got xenoblade 3d 😭😭😭
@@kacperzimowski4626Neither game is as intense as XB.
i thought so too before i got minecraft 😭
Majoras Masks remake can be played on an original 3DS but it plays sooo much better with the c stick
Not really, the c stick works like sht in that game
Button placement for the 3DS ports of Zelda titles never felt comfortable on an original model for me personally. They were perfect on newer models though
It also runs certain games better. Its kind of like the PS5 in a way. Not many exclusive games, but many regular 3DS games benefit from the controls and performance (though they need to explicitly support the New™ performance)
Booting up Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate when I got my New XL model was fantastic. The game ran so much smoother and the new controls helped a lot!
10:38 the message that ruined one of my Christmases ;-;
😭😭
Rats
The only console with only 4 exclusives.
Scott mentioning the binding of Isaac brings everlasting joy
I don't know how Facebook Messenger works but you have to keep refreshing the 3DS every time otherwise you won't see any new messages.
So at least if your phone breaks You still have some way to communicate with people.
Ill defend nintendo here
you do not get 60 fps on SNES games on the base 3ds
at least via fan made emulators while the SNES VC works like a charm
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..."
Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
why are u spamming that comment everywhere wtf @@kacperzimowski4626
Not to mention that the fastest fan made emulator is missing various visual effects due to using the GPU to render everything. The only way to render the SNES correctly on a 3DS is with the CPU, and that puny little 200MHz ARMv6 is not up to the task.
But sure, Scott - 'they should totally work on the Old 3DS because... I mean, come on, they're SNES games!' - that's _totally_ how emulation works.
@@Moli05because he’s an absolute goofball
The OG 3DS absolutely could not run SNES games; good SNES emulation is harder than it looks.
Modders were eventually able to make it work on OG 3DS, but it only performs well thanks to tireless work and by skipping certain visual effects (like the rising and lowering lava in Super Metroid). The emulation devs said they totally understood why Nintendo didn't do it.
Plus, the New 3DS's CPU is actually quite a lot more powerful than the OG 3DS: 3-6x more powerful and with a lot more L2 Cache.
won't stand for this slander anymore Imao
Hunnid percent, Minecraft barely ran on the new 3DS with way more horsepower. Ain't no way it was working on the original, even the clones built from the ground up for the console stuttered and lagged.
7 times? Check those specs again buckeroo.
Let's stop being delusional. Nintendo is just lazy. Blaming the console for not powerful enough and not their inability to properly optimising their games for the hardware they are developing it to. Nintendo just cutting corners and using the consumers as free beta testers instead of hiring actual beta testers to look for problems before releasing the games publicly.
more like nintendo 3ds was underpowered
I doubt it, i have experienced excellent homebrew SNES emulation... On the DSi.
I like how the only thing notable about Minecraft New 3DS is just the fact that they were somehow able to put it on the system
As a 2DSXL owner, I was disappointed by the lack of games that actually made use of the "C Stick" and especially the ZL/ZR buttons. I always wondered why they bothered to add those
They added them to make Circlepad Pro features standard. But apparently Nintendo didn't lean on developers to use the features. Regular 3DS games can support the C stick and ZL and ZR, they just... don't.
@@SnakebitSTI I wished the ZL/ZR had the same binding as L/R at the very least. It was like that in the Monster Hunters. They made full use
The c stick reminds me of the little red dot on the Lenovo thinkpad lol
I remember wanting the new 3ds but i was so humble i was just asked my parents to get me a refurbished new 3ds for Christmas little did i know they went and got me a Brand New New 3ds XL and I was so grateful fot it
Switch 2 is going to be called the “New Switch” 100% (Wii U should have been called New Wii)
I literally just bought a galaxy New 3DS XL yesterday at my job- are you watching me Scott the Woz?
Jailbreak the bitch like I did. I put like 40 games I wanted on the bitch and made it use a 128gb as card
Works 100% flawlessly
It's just the trendiest 3DS colour out there, so it's quite normal for both of you to have it. Reggie would aggree.
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..."
Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
@@kacperzimowski4626 ...why are you here?
5:05 SNES actually isn't that easy to emulate flawlessly. They probably weren't able to consistently hit 60fps on original 3DS.
I believe the "New" nomenclature was inspired from the New Super Mario Bros franchise
I actually was a frequent player of New 3DS Edition Minecraft, and it was the first version I beat the Ender Dragon legitimately on
Did I have other versions I could've done that on? Yes. But it was funny
Xenoblade 3d was special bc I never had home consoles growing up and I didn’t get the wii u until two months after the game released. So having such a big and majestic game on a handheld felt amazing at the time. Yea the graphics were a bit meh but it worked, so happy it got tweaked in the definitive edition years later for the perfect experience.
And after smash 3ds being my first smash game, I was thirsty for exploring all of nintendo’s other franchises than just pokemon. So Xenoblade and Majora’s mask releasing months later with the n3ds and Oot and FE already being on 3ds was just perfect. Good good times.
They're as relevant as DSi Exclusive Games!
Okay, maybe a little more relevant.
The difference is people actually want to play some of these. Nobody wanted to play those DSi Exclusive games, they were all basically garbage.
3DS fanboy detected. You had some great DSi games on DSi. Zelda: 4 Swords, Undead Storm, MotoCross Extreme, Shantae Risky Revange, Viking Invasion, Jagged Alliance + You could play all DS games smoother on DSi with more fps.
Xenoblade 3D was my introduction to the series back then and I have been a fan of the series ever since
Minecraft on the New 3DS actually has a fairly big community. I'm part of it.
New 3DS when modded are able to play PS1 games, that's how strong these bad boys were
3:55 you can get USB charging cables for the Nintendo 3DS
I might be more than reasonably appalled at having to take off the whole back to access the microSD card.
im so glad that minecraft was finally made portable
Scott the Woz energy in this comment
The vita version was also really nice
Except only on PS Vita it actually resembled Minecraft. 3DS version is unplayable.
@@kacperzimowski4626 I wouldn’t know, I only recently modded my 3DS, but I’m excited to try it for the novelty
@@kacperzimowski4626 The psvita version is a port of the ps3 edition
Take a shot every time Scott says "New" 3DS
Majora’s Mask 3D wasn’t a New 3DS exclusive, but it did have an exclusive feature on the system. Freecam movement with the second “stick”
It’s pretty nice, but not required to play the game, especially considering the original N64 release had no freecam.
I played Xenoblade Chronicles for the first time on my modded N2DSXL because I'm not really an RPG guy and didn't wanted to buy the Switch version for 60$.
Since then I bought Xeno 2 and 3 on my Switch, and gonna buy the first one to re-experience it in glorious HD.
And honestly... I'm thinking about to buy a Wii U for Xenoblade Chronicles X only. And it all happened because of the New 3DS port of the first game and became a Xeno fan for life.
One of us.
One of us
"Born into a world of strife!"
What’s so great about xenoblade?
@underkoverist5254 Ambitious and well-written stories with powerful themes, creative environments and locales that make a cohesive and immersive world, deep gameplay systems that offer variety in playstyle and reward dedicated players, and some of the absolute best music ever produced by mankind.
I have a feeling Scott is slowly warming up to Minecraft
Those games were new 3ds only because it had 2x the ram and more processing power.
"Why wouldn't SNES games run on an original 3DS?"
You'd be surprised; emulation can bring a significant overhead that means it mightn't be able to run smoothly if the hardware is limited enough. I've tried a bit of SNES emulation on o3DS through modding, and the performance isn't all that great with some pretty crackly audio at times. I don't know if Nintendo could've done better, or if I just tried the wrong emulator, but I'm inclined to believe that the new model was required for SNES emulation.
And yet these days SNES games runs pretty much perfect on the Old 3DS models, the emulators just weren't fully optimized for the hardware at that time.
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..."
Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
Here is a technical explanation for Runbow: Runbow is built on top of the Unity game engine which only supported the new 3DS line (at least officially, I heard that there were some not-recommended settings that would allow a game to run on an original 3DS model but they never ran well, even on completely blank scenes). So you're correct, they'd have had to rebuild the entire game from the ground up in order for it to not suffer horrendous framerates (or probably not run at all).
That's not true. The box boy games are made in Unity as well
@@otozinclus3593 You're getting confused with Boxboy + Boxgirl. The 3DS games use a custom game engine.
I still have my Majora's Mask new 3DS.
Hacked and happy, love the hshop.
Same here, except that I have a Luigi edition old XL and a Pokemon Sun/Moon new XL The H stands for happy, and the E stands for End-of-life. :)
I just got fire emblem warriors around when this video got released but on switch
im glad all of these are relatively easy and cheap to collect
we just not gonna mention I can buy a switch for cheaper then a 2ds xl
One thing they should have kept from the original 3DS XL is the 3 buttons on the bottom if the touch screen. I like how they were actual physically separate buttons. Not like the original 3DS with the weird plastic sheet covering the home, start, and select buttons that would warp and become indented and damaged over time.
I know the nub gets a lot of shit but honestly i love the way they made it work. Not only does it work better than you think it does (dont try to use it like a stick, use it like the mouse nub on a laptop), it also doesnt fuck with the form factor at all, its purely an addition to the console and its well placed too. Seriously give it a shot, you'll be surprised.
Minecraft New Nintendo 3DS Edition: It's Minecraft™
Not porting a game to a regular 3ds due to budget reasons sounds really stupid unless the budget would have doubled
still more exclusives than the PS5
Sadly Minecraft 3DS was never released physically for PAL.
That runbow game looks like a proto guacameele
At this point Scott has taught me more than my school teachers. I have gone my whole life thinking the new 3ds only had one exclusive. That being xenoblade chronicles. Now I know it had a few more games
Minecraft 3ds was planned to have 3d, but Minecraft 3ds got discontinued, at one point Minecraft java did have a 3d anaglyph mode, but it got cut in later versions.
I watch this channel more than the base one
4:43
My theory for why SNES Virtual Console games were restricted to only New 3DS systems: they needed the ZL and ZR button combination to allow you to switch to the player 2 controller on the fly for two-player hotseat games. You couldn't use the L and R buttons for that like with NES Virtual Console, as those are used by the game... as is every button on the original 3DS aside from HOME (and the touch screen used to access the Suspend menu).
why not just use the touch screen for that
@@kyridoulou ‘Cause I doubt it’d be intuitive to have to open the Suspend menu each time you wanted to switch players, especially in a hotseat game like Super Mario World
I once almost bought a New 3DS long after it's life was over so I could play Xenoblade Chronicles for the first time without having to look for a Wii. I decided it would've been easier to just buy a Switch and the enhanced edition.
I can sure say I definitely bought a Switch.
I think of all the upgraded systems the one that was the best with the Game Boy color. There's so many exclusive Game Boy color games and games that can be enhanced when played on a Game Boy color.
And on the other hand I remember hearing Microsoft and Sony straight up saying that the Xbox One X and PS4 pro wouldn't get any exclusive games like they literally didn't allow 3rd party developers to make exclusive games for them.
I had all the 3ds's back when. The new 3ds made me believe it would have enough exclusives to justify the purchase. I'm never doing that again. If I can't wait for the better version, I'm keeping the launch system and just playing the games that I can.
FIRE EMBLEM WARRIORS EQUALS CRUNCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SCOTT THE WOZ
2:00 it is so strange to think about how hard it was to get to sticks on a handheld console.
Nintendo loves the word "new" because it's actually the word ”しん"(shin) which is often literally translated that way but is a more general word covering concepts like sequels, rookies, etc. Like many things translated literally it makes way more sense in Japanese.
Scott’s 3DS videos are peak TH-cam
Wild.
I was going to argue that Wii U made Xenoblade Chronicles available for anyone who had a Wii U digitally, and that might beat the New 3DS release, but that actually happened a year later.
Except Europe, Europe got it on Wii U shop first on same 2015 year and half a year before US.
And Japan got that release last. What the heck is up with Xenoblade?
When i lost my original 3DS (from launch day), all the new 3DSs had come out already so replaced it with a New 2DS XL, which is such a mouthful. Works well though
Just one thing i miss about the DS series of consoles is the shell form factor that protects the screen and buttons so you can actually put it in your pocket, not like the Switch and Steam deck that needs a case.
Slightly off topic but I'm never gonna forget this. A few days after the first Christmas the 3DS was new someone put a copy of Super Mario 3D Land on eBay and they were selling it because they did not realize it wasn't compatible with the normal DS. So some people can't tell the difference.
I have the Galaxy edition! It’s my favorite version other than the MM 3D one I missed out on
13:44 ETRIAN ODYSSEY MENTIONED LET'S GOOOO
WE MAKING IT OUT OF YGGDRASIL BROS
If you go into a jungle biome in Minecraft 3DS the game will probably crash. Happened to me multiple times.
Someone might have mentioned this already but when Xenoblade came for the New 3ds the game case was black plastic instead of white. At least here in Finland. You can find view images if you google it but seems to be a rare of a sight. I think it would have been a cooler and more clear way to tell the customer that "Hey this isn't a regular game and only works with the new consoles"
After beating and falling in love with Xenoblade 2 on the Switch, I wanted to play the first game as well. Due to the original Wii version being so expensive, I opted to get the 3DS version and absolutely loved it. While it definitely looks a bit rough, I'd say it's one of the most technically and graphically impressive games I've ever played *relative to the hardware it's on.* I really just have no idea how Monolith and Monster Games were able to take one of the most expansive and graphically impressive games released on the Wii and squeeze it onto the 3DS... and to top it all off, I don't recall ever having any performance issues.
THERE’S MORE THAN ONE?
7:49 - "The fact that they made this game run as well as it did on a handheld in 2015..."
Dude xd We literally had prettier handheld games 10 years earlier in 2005, like GTA Liberty City Stories or God of War Chains of Olympus. What's up with all those weird Nintendo fanboys thinking that their handheld was somehow raising the bar in handheld graphics lol
I did not know fire emblem warriors went to New 3DS, but now I know
The only reason i ever got a new 3DS was to play xenoblade chronicles. The 3DS version is still damn good but id much rather play the original wii version or the definitive edition on the switch now. I was messing around with my modded 3ds and with that you can force it to run games like with original 3ds specs and just out of curiosity I decided to do that with Xenoblade and yeah that most definitely NEEDED to be on the new 3DS, it does not run very well at all like that.
The New 3ds confuses me, like is it a different console like the ds and 3ds, or is it the same console just another variation of the 3ds? They both seem the same, but the new 3ds has exclusives which is weird.