• @morphballganon
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    -11 month ago

    No shit.

    Every 5 years, chodes expect each new Nintendo console to be a copy + paste of the previous one.

    It’s never happened.

    • @icecreamtaco
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      • SNES
      • Every handheld console except for the DS and Switch was a copypaste + upgrade from the last one. GB Pocket, GB Color, GB Advance, GBA SP, GBA Micro, DS Lite, 3DS, 2DS, New 3DS, 3DS XL
      • @[email protected]
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        51 month ago

        “The new console unfortunately is not backwards-compatible.” -> riots

        …versus…

        “The new console is backwards-compatible because it’s an upgraded version of the old console.” -> riots

        • @[email protected]
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          11 month ago

          You can be backwards compatible without just being a hardware revision. Look at the Wii, while it’s definitely built on the GameCube, it has many more features

      • Amon
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        01 month ago

        Every handheld console except for the DS

        I’m sorry but it is quite literally a GBA with an additional touchscreen and an ARM9 processor

        • @[email protected]
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          You’re dismissing that way too easily. A dual screen handheld was pretty game changing and not to mention touchscreen was not a standard back then.

          • Amon
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            11 month ago

            Fair enough, I have one and it is really ahead of the time

      • @morphballganon
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        -61 month ago

        SNES was top loading with receding flaps. NES was front loading with a flap cover.

        Must I point out all of the changes, or can you do some critical thinking before you argue?

        • @[email protected]
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          51 month ago

          Japan never got a front-loader with bonus connection problems and extra empty space in the carts.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 month ago

          The Japanese version of the NES was a toploader, and the NES itself had a toploader version later on as well.

          Also, what’s with the personal attack?

          • @morphballganon
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            01 month ago

            Sorry, just frustrated to see the same assumption every generation, after ever generation sees massive change. In retrospect, it’s probably new people making the same assumption, not the same people.

        • missingno
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          11 month ago

          Do you really consider that to be a meaningful point worth "um, akshually"ing over?

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      Except no one expected the Wii U successor to be the same. The Nintendo switch leaks came years before the release, when it was still known under the codename “NX”, and they were 100% accurate