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« on: July 08, 2010, 07:32:11 PM »
Speaking of the bits, I'm willing to bet that it is 128. I've noticed a pattern. The handhelds were about a couple generations behind the consoles.
GBC was a lot like the NES, GBA was the SNES, DS was the N64, and logically as the pattern follows the 3DS will be like the GameCube. Remakes of games on the consoles did appear first in the respective handhelds.
Another pattern that I've seen since the GBA. You have the initial handheld, then you have an ungraded version which is a large improvement over the original, and then you put in a third version which is for the most part just a casual pleaser with extra features that are basically pointless for gaming as well as removing important features, mostly for squeezing a bit more money out of the line before releasing the next one. So that's GBA/GBA SP/GBm and DS/DS lite/ DSi , both removing the backward compatibility in the third version. The micro removed the connectivity to the GCN, and the DSi had really poorly made L and R buttons that failed for a lot of people. So if that pattern holds, then we should expect an upgraded 3DS before too long, and then a smaller, sleeker version with improved features, and then a third version with gimmicky extra features as well as reduced playability of the system. I did see that the 3DS more closely looks like the original DS and not the DS lite.