That's awesome. Thank you!

I live in Southern California and some of the Japanese restaurants around here have these displays. I've always wondered if there's anyone doing this in the US, or if they had to special order from Japan or something.

Maybe they have not implemented ran affecting characters yet?

You ride around insane teens with a semi?

"Objectively better" in the sense that one number is bigger than another number. Not objectively better when it comes to the end user experience, which is the only thing that actually matters.

I remember when iPhone fanatics used to use "I like the smaller screen, it fits in my hand better" as an excuse

Honestly, I can't see it being anything but bad. I just don't see how S-E is up to the task.

So you are purposely reading all my comments to try and find an argument? Wow you're an angry one.

They don't just generate profits by just fulfilling customer demands. The fact is most customer demands would run seemingly successful companies in to the ground at an alarming rate.

So you'll but the 20 dollar version online, and Nintendo loses 10 bucks.

It's always amusing to see people show disgust at the perceived "entitlement" of the gaming community or consumers in general.

I doubt Nintendo is drooling over the microscopically small segment of consumers who are willing to buy a console twice just to play games for a different region. Even among regular importers, I'd be willing to bet that those double-buyers are insignificantly small in number.

I think there's a fundamental difference between something like video games, where a natural language barrier exists to discourage or dampen importation, and jeans — a product that is the same no matter where you go.

I see where you're going, but I'd struggle to believe that the import video game market is large enough to have a significant impact on the bottom line of any one market, company, or shop. It might be a different story if you're talking about other products, like musical instruments, clothing, etc. — things that…

Exactly. I'm struggling to find a good excuse for why Nintendo suddenly fell in love with region locking. I think it's baffling, just like a lot of other things Nintendo does these days.

I'm not sure I see the connection between piracy and region locking, if that really is their excuse.

I have seen the future, and it is good.

They had me at HIGH SUPEEEDO BATORU. Before that, even.

So the "second analog stick" is like a Thinkpad mouse nub? I wonder how well that'll work.

Eh, I don't think Nintendo cares about looking outdated at all when it comes to anything but gameplay. The 3DS was kind of horrifically outdated when it launched without a second stick — they're only now getting around to adding hardware features everyone expected back in 2011.