Dae asks: Did you buy a 3DS for Pokémon?

I still remember the first year the 3DS launched. It was one rough year, with barely any worthwhile games released for the system. After half a year a massive price cut was issued and people thought Nintendo were doomed forever. Nintendo put all their effort in making the 3DS the success it should have been. After a lukewarm 2012 Nintendo tried to hit back with big hits in 2013, one of those being Pokémon X & Y.

People were saying for over two years that they would never the failure that is 3DS, but the tides seem to have turned looking back at the recent hardware sales. Now I ask you: did Pokémon pull you over? Or did you already have a 3DS well before Pokémon was even announced? Or were it multiple games that made you buy it but Pokémon was the decisive factor? Tell me all about it in the comments!

I’m currently busy with PJNM, so my review got put on hold but I’ll try to make sure it hits the coming week! Until then!

~Daedardus~

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2,604 thoughts on “Dae asks: Did you buy a 3DS for Pokémon?”

  1. I bought a 3DS because I wanted an upgrade from the Lite and had at that point not yet bought any DSis or anything like that. I figured that the 3DS was enough of an up[grade to warrant buying it, so I did, about the time it came out. My 3DS was getting dodgily close to “at the risk of breaking” so yeah. Got it a while before BW came out I think?

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  2. No. I didn’t buy the 3DS for X and Y. I got it when it was first released. Its line-up was terrible, and I only had Super Monkey Ball 3D… Then I got Ocarina of Time 3D. After the 3DS had gotten a really good line-up (for me at least), I dropped it, and some jackass neighbors stepped on it and just left it there. Thankfully, it was right before Christmas, and I got a new one. Then everything was normal. I heard about the English release of the Pikachu XL. I thought it was $100 at Toys R’ Us. Damn Bulbapedia got the price wrong, and my dad had to pay for some of it. But I don’t regret buying it at all 😀

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  3. She took out my Mega Gardevoir with her Goodra, but I managed to get her to red with 2 Dazzling Gleams. Sent out Heracross, took it out, Moxie activates. Let the (hopeful) sweeping begin. >:)

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  4. PEOPLE: NUZZLE IS NOT GUARANTEED PARALYSIS. A DEDENNE USED IT ON MY DEDENNE (MAX AFFECTION) AND IT DID NOTHING. NOT EVEN PARALYSIS AND THEN GETTING OUT OF IT RIGHT THEN. IT DID NOTHING.

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  5. I remember selling my old DS lite for a 3DS way back in the day when Gamestop was running that sale. All I had was OoT but I damn loved the device. Pretty proud that the 3DS is as popular as it is now. Take that Vita.

    Oh, wait, sorry, we aren’t apparently talking about that anymore. Kinda sucks being a Pokemon player when you don’t play competitively nor have a ton of shinies to trade away.

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