Thread 58457915

It's what everyone wants.

>>58457915 (OP)
Zoomers unironically don’t like/play anything pre-3DS.

>>58457915 (OP)
DS rom hacks will save the community in 2 more weeks.

>>58457915 (OP)
Would Nintendo make bank if they re-released DS lites for like a year?

>>58458722
With how high prices are for Pokemon DS games on ebay it really seems like a sensible option

>>58457939
On the contrary, this what we grew up with and is pretty much the only shit we play

>>58457949
isnt this already out?

>>58460462
Agreed, I open these babys up way more than my switch
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>>58457915 (OP)
DS nostalgiafags are more obnoxious than Game Boy nostalgiafags ever were at this point

>>58458722
Surprised companies haven't been selling old consoles in limited runs these days. Easy way to bank off nostalgia and you don't even have to make new games for them. Already got a massive library, and for Nintendo they already have the rights to most of the highlights on their systems

They did this with the NES and SNES classic, and whatever the PSX one was called, and I thought they sold well. Why stop?

>>58460489
All nostalgiafags are annoying as fuck. DS fags are just old enough to post here now

>>58460493
Because NSO does the same thing, but on a FAR lager scale. Can sell to scalpers, or can sell online to people and offer the emus for part of the deal. Unlike the mini consoles, its guaranteed everyone who downloads it will be a gamer of some description (as they're paying for online gameplay and actively choosing to download the emulator to their system).

>>58460453
The GBA games would sell like mad if they were priced well.
A lot of zoomers missed that generation but YouTube challenge videos and emulation have promoted them to everybody.
Plus with the millions of fake cartridges circulating online, a lot of people would love to buy officially.

>>58460477
You're missing out on Nintendo's greatest library of all time.
>Super Mario Odyssey
>BOTW / TOTK
>Metroid Dread
>Kirby and the Forgotten Land
>Xenoblade 2 / 3
>Splatoon 2 / 3
>Astral Chain
>Super Mario Bros. Wonder
>Bowser's Fury
>Astral Chain
>Pikmin 4
>Zelda; Echoes of Wisdom
>Fire Emblem: Three Houses
>Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
and more

>>58460598
>mentions astral chain twice
I wanted to like that game a lot more than I did tbdesu

>>58460523
Virtual console existed before that, and the classics still sold incredibly well. NSO didn't change that

>>58460598
Don't know anything about Astral Chain or Xenoblade, and don't personally care about Splatoon, but every other franchise you listed peaked long before the switch

>>58460636
The NES and SNES did, The Playstation one failed horribly with a smorgasboard of complaints and I'm betting that Nintendo had already run feasibility tests to see if releasing any further were viable and decided against it, given they'd come out after SNES mini to say they were done with the concept.

>>58460636
Oh yeah, and they sell the main draw of the retro consoles anyway - full-size era controllers that work with the new system to play the NSO games, if you so choose.

>>58460748
The PlayStation Classic failed because it had piss poor emulation & people don't have as much nostalgia for PlayStation as the internet wants you to believe.

>>58460650
Not Zelda
>"buh muh formulaic childhoods gaem"
Yeah? Unless it was Zelda I, Zelda II (my own entrance to the series) or LttP, it was formulaic derivative shite up until they pivoted from reception to the formula after Skyward Sword (tied for one of my favourite stories in a Zelda game with LA ST and the Switch games). There was nothing wrong with that game, but the series had reached a point where it needed to go open world (reviewers savaged the disjointed surface world) and it was a victim of being just unable to put it together on the system that was current.

>>58460489
the DS aged way better than the Game Boy did

>>58460771
And Nintendo had a run of consoles where they finished runner up (or worse) to Sony and Microsoft and people still expect Nintendo to piss away money continuing to make classic minis of consoles that were not received popularly or favourably during their era because Nintendo sold two that were and Sony tried the same trick. That's why I said the NSO does that job now - you pay for online, you're free to play whatever they have up (been grafting through Zelda II, need to finish that thing to say I've finally beaten it). No having to pay $100 a unit (or more), no buggering around cable-swapping in the era of smartphones removing the charging port. Got your console? Got your NES/SNES/N64/Camecube/Game Boy/GBA/possibly DS in the future.

>>58460807
>nuuuuuu, muh childhoods111
You're just as bad as the genwunners who insisted only Red and Blue counted, because they grew out the brand when GS rolled around.

>>58460822
i didn't grow out of the brand after the DS era, it's just a widely recognized fact that the games took a shift when they went into 3D

>>58457915 (OP)
it would make them look like they admitted defeat

>>58460785
BotW, which mechanically interesting, has less good actual level design than the first Zelda and is ultimately inferior to it. On the other hand, there are several good formulaic Zelda games well after the frankly awful Link to the Past (I thought it was shit even as a kid), even of the peaked with the GameBoy titles and Majora's Mask. Hell, BotW is infinitely worse than TotK at what is actually does well, it's a shame TotK re-uses so much of the mediocre map design. Maybe someday we'll get a really good game with a BotW formula, but honestly just remake the first game and you're 90% of the way there already.

>>58457939
Why do people forget how old zoomers actually are?

>>58458722
>>58460493
You guys really think companies can produce old consoles out of thin hair? Oh yeah let me go backstage and go tell the oomp lumpas that the DS is back in business.
Console production is tied to contracts with third party factories that don't have the technology and machinery anymore, hell they can barely produce new consoles since we're constantly on chip shortage because the world is getting more and more fucked, same reason there's no mass producing gaming CRTs.

>>58460925
I want a new DS with 100 hours of battery life that takes USB C & a new Gen 4 Pokemon game and Nintendo is gonna give it to me in two weeks

>>58460881
The zoomer naming started gaining traction around 2018, back when most zoomers were still teens

>>58461270
>teens
if you were 15 in 2018 then you were 8 by the time Gen 5 rolled around, most zoomers started on DS, as evidenced by it's roaring popularity here and in other forums

>>58460925
Yes

>>58457915 (OP)
Because we have new technoly like pc, phone, calculator and other shit

>>58460453
Still got mine and my collection, imagine not keeping yours

>>58460453
whats funny is that these prices are only so high in America.
A boxed copy of B2W2 or HGSS will run you $150+ here but not more than $50 in Nippon, I used a proxy to buy multiple cartridges and even though import fees were high I still saved tons.
Not really sure why these differences are so stark, are the Nipponese consoomers more hung up with the new games to care about the old? are the burgers nostalgia cattle who will never let go of their childhoods? Hard to say.

>>58461420
They're cheaper because only the Japanese can understand them.
Good for you if you understand japanese tho.

>>58461435
i suppose, and maybe its because the japanese buy pokemon like mad compared to their population size.
I don't speak Japanese though, but who really needs to be able to read the text in Pokemon games? particularly older ones I've already played.

>>58457915 (OP)
and sell it for only $40 or less? Pokemon is a Quadruple AAAA franchise and deserves to charge at LEAST $100 USD plus tax!

>>58461528
Unironically they would just need to add some fancier lighting effects and make good sprites for whatever post Gen 5 pokemon they want to include and the general public would gladly pay $70 plus tax for it.
If people bought SV which looks like a Unity project and ran like AIDS they’ll gladly buy nostalgiabait stuff.

>>58458722
Yeah, I mean the Switch isn't exactly a replacement for them, and mobile phones are mostly just f2p gacha shit which is a different market, and younger people shouldn't even be getting into that. Kids are already too attached to their smartphones anyway.

>>58457915 (OP)
They're basically trying to do next-gen game on a DS game budget

They really should, because the idea of the games was to have kids socialise by having them battle and trade like they would with trading cards, but with fun gadgets, and that kind of interaction is needed now more than ever as opposed to having kids on their phones watching Tiktok.

>>58460469
a demo released iirc

up

>>58457949
okay but unironically these are dropping soon.
ChaosPurple seems to just be FRLG in Gen 4 but I have no issue with that at all, Rose Gold is apparently not a full region but I imagine it'll be fun for however much it gives you.