More so the 3D gaming of the 3DS though neat hadn’t really enhanced any games. I had gotten it when it was new but Id admit the range of games wasn’t great, and unlike the Switch there was no real must have mega game like Breath of the Wild. In fact they needed to drop the price before it started to sell and the late president of Nintendo Satoru Iwata even took a pay cut to help compensate the company (truly a great man, look at your Bethesda’s, Activision/Blizzard and EAs and vomit at their greed compared to this).

To the surprise of some, the 3DS wasn’t a success right away. The new Super Mario Bros games also brought back classic Mario but it wouldn’t be until the 3DS that we saw classic Mario gameplay in a 3D environment, in more ways than one. While Mario 64 had shown 3 platforming can be done and not by being on a set track like others had chosen, it still didn’t feel like a true example of translating Mario gameplay into 3D.

The move to 3D was a difficult one for many classic games, some chose to change while keeping elements of what made them famous, but it still wasn’t the same.

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