Nintendo Direct 1/14/15

[Drevin]

I think unless you really need a c-stick, or if you want the exclusives (currently just the Xenoblade port), you can skip for now.

[Warp2063]

I do want the Xenoblade port, but it's not coming out at the new 3DS launch, I don't own SSB4 yet, and I likely won't be picking up MH4U at launch. I can wait for a bit. Hopefully there'll be a new color option by the time I can afford one.

[Ray]

and you know 3ds-2 is gonna play n3ds games i bet

[Warp2063]

This could be, to some extent, a case of DS -> DSi. A "3DS 1.5", if you will. The DSi played (almost) all of the DS games, plus gave you some added features for games to take advantage of and a handful of exclusive games. It also gave us DSiWare, but that's a whole 'nother thing.

I really don't think that this is the future. With all the platform merging that Nintendo has talked about, I would suspect that we'll see a much greater connection between their *next* handheld and their next console, and probably a good bit of shared architecture, if they can pull it off.