I agree that the labels aren't important, but people who have arbitrary rules for things and when confronted with conflicts in their arbitrary rules, they just come up with even more arbitrary exceptions... those people annoy me. And it's like Straw Hat said... most of the logic people apply against competitive gaming…

"And every year, expectations grow higher."

2) A large percentage of Japanese developers—including Sakaguchi himself—have abandoned console development to chase mobile gaming and the Puzzle & Dragons phenomenon.

None of those things are even remotely the kinds of things that mark a generational shift.

Better screen is subjective. It has the same resolution and the only real features they touted for it were that they would improve the 3D technology via some facial tracking (which takes some form of processing power) and that it would use the cameras to track external lighting conditions and adjust the brightness…

I don't see that as a significant difference. At the end of the day, Xenoblade is still just a port and no one in their right mind would ever announce what is intended to be a new major console with only a single exclusive game to announce with it.

Xenoblade is still just one game and it's still just a port. When's the last time you heard a console announcement with exactly one game announced for it?

I mean they were an afterthought. They weren't part of the cultural export, they came as a result of the popularity of the character.

Time between Gameboy and Gameboy color releases: 9 years
Plus the hardware difference between Gameboy and Gameboy Color was actually not all that different from NES to Super Nintendo. Meanwhile this jump is basically the same as the DSi.

Um, yes, actually, as a matter of fact it did.

It remains to be seen whether the new 3DS will make significant use of the new processor though. Most developers probably aren't going to choose to make new 3DS exclusives since their audience will naturally be split by that, and really the new 3DS doesn't bring much to the table. The processor is slightly better, but…

The DSi also had a faster processor and games that weren't compatible with the original DS. It speaks at exactly that volume.

There were DSi exclusive games too.

So this is what we mean by super now...

It's not better enough to be Super. And the button layout is probably the most superficial part of the changes. Heck, they already had an analog stick attachment, what's two more buttons?

Of all the things from Japan to end up becoming cultural exports, Hello Kitty is the only one I didn't understand on at least some basic level. There's no cartoons really backing it, it isn't really a single tangible product, it has no story, it's just... a crude piece of artwork that gets thrown on things. It's…

It's not a successor to the 3DS. It's a step between the 3DS and what will be the 3DS's real successor much like the DSi.

short and white vs tall and black is a less stark difference than gerbil person vs human suffering from extreme dwarfism and an extreme nose-hair mustache IMO.

Neat case. I'm personally not into collecting that sort of thing just because I always just keep my games on a shelf for DVDs anyway (alphabetically ordered and sorted by console of course)... but I definitely appreciate the effort.

Fly me to the moon again.