New England Nerd discusses its (albeit brief) time with the 3DS and what Nintendo's latest handheld means in the grander scheme of Nintendo's development as a company.

Did that extend to the 3DS as well? Did it really bring anything new to the table? On the one hand it’s clearly a step up from the DS. It improves on the friend code system, features a better user interface, and obviously has better visuals all around. On the other it’s almost like they just duct taped the bottom half of a DS to a PSP and slapped a $250 price tag on it. The 3DS will be the most expensive Nintendo handheld to date, and in essence the only thing it does is bring the DS up to par with the modern standards by which every other console and handheld is judged.

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