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BananaSplit said:
Assuming the rumor of the new model ever comes true, I'd rather see a better dock with a foam layer around the edges to prevent the tablet to wobble inside, or a tempered screen glass for a more practical outdoor use.
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You don't want foam with electronics, that shit starts to always crumble or decay earlier than expected. It's also a huge magnet for dirt and grime getting stuck in there and then having it smear on other components. It's impossible to clean because once you do the cleaning materials will either seep in and weaken it or if you're using dry materials it just makes the intial problem worse.

Older equipment that had any type of foam as a main component never lasted as long as ones that didn't use it at all. it's why fabric, nylon, and special types of rubber are used with anything electronic now.
 
Marissa Moira said:
Nintendo hasn't done good build quality in decades so they're going to cheap out on parts too.
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Well that's wrong. Their systems have been of a pretty high build quality despite using Chinese manufacturing.

The DS line in particular is very rugged especially considering all of the tech crammed into it and the GameCube, Wii and Wii U were very well built and durable. Even the Switch unit itself is pretty darn good as a hybrid machine.

Controllers? We can talk. Nintendo has opted for inferior restrictor gate designs since the Wii U and their gyro controls are hit and miss. And I have no idea how they've managed to fuck up analog sticks. You boil the water and open the packet You stick the plastic bit on the potentiometer. Not rocket science guys wtf?
 
Dark Edea said:
Well that's wrong. Their systems have been of a pretty high build quality despite using Chinese manufacturing.

The DS line in particular is very rugged especially considering all of the tech crammed into it and the GameCube, Wii and Wii U were very well built and durable. Even the Switch unit itself is pretty darn good as a hybrid machine.

Controllers? We can talk. Nintendo has opted for inferior restrictor gate designs since the Wii U and their gyro controls are hit and miss. And I have no idea how they've managed to fuck up analog sticks. You boil the water and open the packet You stick the plastic bit on the potentiometer. Not rocket science guys wtf?
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The DS line was not rugged, they had numerous failure points, especially at the hinges for all models. The plastic was too weak and would shatter routinely. The guts inside the hinge would also routinely fail.
 
Marissa Moira said:
The DS line was not rugged, they had numerous failure points, especially at the hinges for all models. The plastic was too weak and would shatter routinely. The guts inside the hinge would also routinely fail.
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Also the shoulder buttons get dirty and not register inputs, my first 3ds became unplayable with the shoulder buttons and my attempts to replace them and get the ribbon cables torn trying to open the thing.
 
Marissa Moira said:
The DS line was not rugged, they had numerous failure points, especially at the hinges for all models. The plastic was too weak and would shatter routinely. The guts inside the hinge would also routinely fail.
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Again you're wrong. The system had failure points, yes. But the overall success rate of the system is phenomenal when you consider that clamshell design and the target audience. It is a marvel of engineering. You are focusing on a small number of highly publicized failures and (likely unintentionally) being disingenuous.

An electronic device aimed at adolescents and young adults (two notoriously reckless demographics) with two LCD screens (notoriously fragile) and a clamshell design (notoriously failure-prone) with a reed switch sleep function (extremely fragile), stereo speakers, a touch screen and a suite of buttons managed to move millions of units with very few actual failures that were not user error or accidents and as far as I know no recalls.

That's fantastic.

Billy_Sama said:
Also the shoulder buttons get dirty and not register inputs, my first 3ds became unplayable with the shoulder buttons and my attempts to replace them and get the ribbon cables torn trying to open the thing.
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Feels but that was your fault, not Nintendo's.
 
Dark Edea said:
Again you're wrong. The system had failure points, yes. But the overall success rate of the system is phenomenal when you consider that clamshell design and the target audience. It is a marvel of engineering. You are focusing on a small number of highly publicized failures and (likely unintentionally) being disingenuous.

An electronic device aimed at adolescents and young adults (two notoriously reckless demographics) with two LCD screens (notoriously fragile) and a clamshell design (notoriously failure-prone) with a reed switch sleep function (extremely fragile), stereo speakers, a touch screen and a suite of buttons managed to move millions of units with very few actual failures that were not user error or accidents and as far as I know no recalls.

That's fantastic.


Feels but that was your fault, not Nintendo's.
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The plastic cracks and breaks due to age, it's not unheard of. The DS's really started to fail when they came off the market and getting second hand ones is a crapshoot when it comes to what's not broken. The way they had everything designed with the DS models was that the plastic was very thin in a lot of key areas.

The Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Advance SP, and even gameboy color don't have these same problems with the materials despite being much older. But every DS model has far more issues with it as time goes on than it's predecessors and the 3Ds's hinges also don't suffer the same issues(because they're designed to be mounted on the exterior of the screen and not made to fold on the interior).
 
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Marissa Moira said:
The plastic cracks and breaks due to age, it's not unheard of. The DS's really started to fail when they came off the market and getting second hand ones is a crapshoot when it comes to what's not broken.

The Gameboy, Gameboy Advance and even gameboy color don't have these same problems despite being much older.
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At that point though Nintendo had shifted to Chinese production. I think it was Foxxcon, go figure.

Nothing is going to compare to the older "Made in Japan" Nintendo products. I think late-model GameBoy Colors were made in China as well.

Moral of the story: Japan is best girl.
 
BananaSplit said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NyaJT3U1Hbc
A-Train All Aboard Tourism is soon available on western eshops with a demo already out. It's a sort of OpenTTD with a bigger focus on trains/transports and featuring the artist of Etrian Odyssey as the character designer.
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This is apparently not getting a physical release despite Limited Run doing the VR version. It looks like they're just leaving it digital only.
 
BananaSplit said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=NyaJT3U1Hbc
A-Train All Aboard Tourism is soon available on western eshops with a demo already out. It's a sort of OpenTTD with a bigger focus on trains/transports and featuring the artist of Etrian Odyssey as the character designer.
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Ayyyyy this is going to be comfy. Is this a reskin or a new game? Wikipedia tells me it is a port of A-Train 9. But I'm never 100% sure with them.
 
Sable said:
Wasn't the newer one the one with the plant girl?
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Yeah it was. Third is soon also. Preordered the Trilogy.

I been replaying the first one.


I caved and preordered a bunch of games from Limited Run as well.
 
The 3DS's hinge thing (or was it DS XL?) was an issue that affected brand new systems. I remember it being in the news at the time.

Really, everything post GCN/DS was a little iffy and saved only by MS and Sony systems being so much more failure prone.
 
Smug Chuckler said:
Remember when Nintendo consoles were built like tanks? My original game boy still works.
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I remember when Nintendo products were built to survive actual tanks.

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