Kluya wrote:
I still haven't downloaded my 20 games. I need to get on that.
1) It's only 10 NES games so far.
2) Prepare to enjoy your Nintendo shopping experience:
- Wait forever for the store to actually load. I even timed this, it takes over 30 seconds from clicking on the eShop button before you actually arrive at the store. There are games that load faster than this.
- Look around for your games only to discover they're not there. Not even with the Virtual Console stuff like you'd expect.
- Spend 10 minutes clicking everything to discover they're actually in your "titles I've downloaded before" list, which is actually in the settings menu. Take a mental note of how many taps and swipes it actually takes to get here.
- Find your games in a list. A "list" where every game takes up an entire screen. So you have to swipe with your finger/stylus a million miles past each one, past all the ones you already downloaded so far, to reach the game you actually want to download.
- Click download, then wait. I'm not even sure what you're waiting for here. It makes you wait 5-6 seconds just to load, I dunno, another download button? Then click that download button so it can load another 5-6 seconds before it starts to download anything.
- Finally your game is downloading. Despite your super fast cable internet, expect to wait about 20-30 seconds for the game to actually download due to having to watch the stupid happy shopping bag do his stuff. As a ROM dump, Super Mario Bros for the NES should be a 32k download. A 56k modem would download 32k in approximately 7-8 seconds.
(By this point, you're probably thinking I'm being a bit harsh. Don't worry, I'm getting to why.)
- Your game finally downloads, you're presented with a big button that says "Continue Shopping". Its also the only button you can press that isn't the Home button to force the thing to close.
- Click the Continue button, and watch as you are
booted all the way back to the store homepage. From here, you can very conveniently repeat the
entire process again, ten times, to get everything. Why the hell do all of your buttons take up the entire screen?! You gotta swipe past way too much stuff to get to where you want to go! By the 5th or 6th game I was starting to get so annoyed by how convoluted this was that I almost didn't bother downloading the rest of them. It took me around 20-25 minutes to actually download them all, whyyyyyy!?
- Finally, FINALLY, get to play Super Mario Bros. That is, play it for less time than it took to aquire the damn thing before you realise that, yep, this is Super Mario Bros, that you've already played a million times, and begin to wonder why the hell you wasted so much time.
I mean, come on now Nintendo, what are you playing at? You'd think with all these extra years to watch what the competition is doing and improve your own stuff that you'd have solved all these problems by now. Why is your interface so huge and convoluted so that every single button takes up the entire screen? Where are the "cart" and "buy/download all" features? The PS3 and 360 have done this for years. And to be fairer, even the freaking PSP has these features.
Instead all we got is a handheld version of the horrible Wii Shop Channel nonsense. Why do you insist on throwing "Tomy's My First Shopping Experience" at people, normal everyday "casual" people, who actually do online shopping on sites like Amazon. People are used to concepts like a virtual shopping basket, it's really not that alien a concept. And even the most basic UI designer would know to have more than just a single button that just forces someone all the way back to the very start to repeat the entire process again for every item they want to buy. You don't go into a grocery store and have to checkout for each individual item before wandering back into the aisles to find your next item and return to checkout again, its just stupid, argh.
/rant