Yeah, the Feedbackula for the 2DS was pretty insulting, making the many people who criticised the design out to be a bunch of whingers who didn't know what they were talking about.
Messy. Confusing. Overload of information, but most of it is useless. Three evenly spaced columns, when one is enough to show the news. The layout changes after you scroll down a bit for some reason. Stupid Windows 8 style thumbnails down the bottom, and when you put it in list view only a few stories show up. I have to scroll down and press "show me more" a shit load of times to browse the latest news stories.
Website designers need to realize that a familiar layout is essential to properly communicate a message to the audience. The layout of newspapers is a good example, as they have remained essentially unchanged for hundreds of years. I used to come to Gamespot because I liked and was familiar with the layout, and could easily browse the main page for stories and features that interested me.
I've seen these ridiculous design changes happen with other websites I used to like. I just stopped visiting them.
@Vodoo @smoke1125 It's all about variation, which is a necessary component of anything which changes and evolves to the outside environment. Sure, many of the variations are discarded as not particularly useful, but the ones which gain prominence through their acceptance as a useful part of the field are destined to become the foundations for further expansion. Within these indie titles, where developers are experimenting with new ideas and concepts, lay the seeds for future trends and genres which may be established in the field of games. To ignore these experiments is to deny us of possibilities for the future, relegating us to an eternity of playing only proven formulas, which is an evolutionary dead end my friend.
@pa_amb_tomaquet @Dav_id83 @abcdefgabcdefgz True, and I agree also, but if you've got cash to burn, they are getting cheaper these days, I think less than half the price PS3 was at launch. I wasn't interested in these new consoles as there aren't really any games for them yet, but it's tempting to buy one just to give MS the middle finger and let Sony know they're on the right track.
And although reliability is always a question with new consoles (I had early model PS1 and Xbox consoles die on me), I don't think it will "flop", meaning that I have no doubt lots of great games will be released for it to make it worth the price of admission.
Also, while they make these systems more reliable and cheaper with each iteration, they also remove a lot of small things, like backward compatibility with the PS3. I still wish I bought a PS3 earlier so I didn't need to have my PS2 hooked up to play older games.
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