Is the 3DS really the same console as the DS?

What with the fast approaching launch of the 3DS, one question is on my mind for discussions. Is the 3DS really the same console as the DS, and thus should any sales of the 3DS be added to the DS? The 3DS is so different from the DS, that in my mind, it should not be considered a new console. The DS Lite was essentially a smaller version of the DS. The DSi added cameras, and also a download store and internal storage. But the 3DS adds so many features other previous iterations that raises this question for me:

DS -> DSi 2x Camera, supports internal and external content storage, connects to the Nintendo DSi Shop

DSi -> 3DS A larger top screen, the 'Slide Pad' instead of the D-Pad, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, virtual console capabilities, multitasking, better looking graphics, more powerful, a new cartridge, and oh course the 3D capabilities.

Note: That 3DS cartridges are currently slightly different to standard DS cartidges, but the 3DS is still backwards compatible.

Basically Im suggesting that the 3DS is such a different handheld to the original DS series, that it should be considered a different console.

Although fairly trivial, what do you think?

It is different just like the DS was different to the GBA. While design wise it looks similar to the DS, it's a whole different beast all together.

The same could probably be said for the PSP2.

It is different just like the DS was different to the GBA. While design wise it looks similar to the DS, it's a whole different beast all together.

The same could probably be said for the PSP2.

Zanoh

I'm going with this.

Yes, 3DS is a new system and its sales should not count as DS systems because the DS is a different system. It makes no more sense than combining SNES and N64 sales and saying they were all SNES sales.

It is different just like the DS was different to the GBA. While design wise it looks similar to the DS, it's a whole different beast all together.

The same could probably be said for the PSP2.

Zanoh

Thats what Im suggesting. The GBA is a different console to the DS, just like the DS should be considered a different console to the 3DS.

And yea. If what we have heard about the PSP2 is true, then it to is a different console to the PSP.

Ah. Good. So its not just me.

It is different just like the DS was different to the GBA. While design wise it looks similar to the DS, it's a whole different beast all together.

The same could probably be said for the PSP2.

Zanoh

My opinion is no. The 3DS is a big jump ahead. It kept the clamshell (pseudo-laptop) design of previous Nintendo handhelds which I love. But, it gained a heck of a lot more media capabilities in addition to improved games. Then you add the 3D part. As it stands, the 3DS aims to replace my PSP unless Sony comes up with something better.

3Ds is the successor to the DS.

Also to the 3DS list add: street pass, 3D movies and ability to take 3D photos, better menu/interface and online.

Is this topic serious? The 3DS has vastly superior hardware specs than the NDS and the graphics speak for themselves. It's the successor to the NDS.

Is this topic serious? The 3DS has vastly superior hardware specs than the NDS and the graphics speak for themselves. It's the successor to the NDS.

Dahaka-UK

Completely serious. I am afraid that many people have saw the DS in the '3DS' and because they look fairly similar, catergorized it as the same console.

Its a beefed up DS on paper but a next generation system regardless. Sort of like how the GBA was a beefed up GBC.

Once Nintendo has gotten all it can out of the DS series, itll launch a new handheld with a revloutionary feature and repeat.

It is different just like the DS was different to the GBA. While design wise it looks similar to the DS, it's a whole different beast all together.

The same could probably be said for the PSP2.

Zanoh

What with the fast approaching launch of the 3DS, one question is on my mind for discussions. Is the 3DS really the same console as the DS, and thus should any sales of the 3DS be added to the DS? The 3DS is so different from the DS, that in my mind, it should not be considered a new console. The DS Lite was essentially a smaller version of the DS. The DSi added cameras, and also a download store and internal storage. But the 3DS adds so many features other previous iterations that raises this question for me:

DS -> DSi 2x Camera, supports internal and external content storage, connects to the Nintendo DSi Shop

DSi -> 3DS A larger top screen, the 'Slide Pad' instead of the D-Pad, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, virtual console capabilities, multitasking, better looking graphics, more powerful, a new cartridge, and oh course the 3D capabilities.

Note: That 3DS cartridges are currently slightly different to standard DS cartidges, but the 3DS is still backwards compatible.

Basically Im suggesting that the 3DS is such a different handheld to the original DS series, that it should be considered a different console.

Although fairly trivial, what do you think?

Urworstnhtmare

Is anyone saying this is a continuation of the DS? I'm not as active on the GS forums as I once was, sure. But I haven't heard that out of one person yet. The 3DSS is to the DS as the Gameboy Advance was to the Gameboy Color. It's the next thing.

While the difference is much larger, the 3DS to the DS is like the GBA to the GB. Same basic system except a lot more powerful and having new features.

No, it's not.