I'm just putting the feelers out there to see if anyone's into Nintendo's portable powerhouse.
Today I came home with this.
Whoopsies. The only reason I bought one is because I was browsing the PS4 games display at Target last week and for some reason just turned around and caught a glimpse of the 3DS display, which up until that very moment had registered precisely a zero on my interest-o-meter. What is this? I never knew this existed!
I'm a big fan of The Legend of Zelda so it had to be done. This week I shopped around and today I got a screaming good deal on the console, A Link Between Worlds (of course) and an AC adapter. Suddenly I want to buy Ocarina of Time 3D, and Majora's Mask 3D, and Super Mario 3D Land, and Pilotwings Resort, and Xenoblade Chronicles, and Animal Crossing, and Mario Kart 7, and Star Fox 64 3D, and Smash Bros. etc, etc
I think this has been coming for a while. I've had a slight rekindling of Nintendo love recently (because emulators) and I'm starting to be sucked in again. I'll definitely be a day-1 NX purchaser, but the Wii U... I'm torn. I want to play Splatoon so badly, but by the time I want to pick up a Wii U on the cheap, Splatoon might be dead and buried online, so it's not worth it (despite the cost of a new Wii U not being that much more than a New 3DS XL, heh!). But there's also Super Mario Maker and Super Mario 3D World and Twilight Princess HD and Wind Waker HD... you know. Games that I already have multiple copies of already. I think the prospect of inevitable backwards compatibility with Wii U on the NX might save the day there.