ORAS What Happened to the Games' Paper Manual?

[Athena]

So long as you use a charger made by Nintendo or by a Nintendo-approved 3rd part producer, your warranty is just fine, no matter if the charger is brand new, or used, or if your dog licked it this one time because it thought it was spaghetti. You only need to be concerned about voiding your warranty when you buy and use unapproved 3rd party products.

 

[AlexanderTheAwesome]

It may save on paper but if your system dies you can't read it at all even if you were trying to figure something out while you were reading it for instance. You can't read it without playing your game. Before you did not need your game to read the instructions. You could read it on paper without stressing your eyes. You forget every time you look at a small screen for long periods of time it puts stress on your eyes and when you had a paper manual it does not stress your eyes. By doing this means putting more stress on your eyes than necessary. I would rather pay for paper and less stress on the eye than stress my eyes more to read a digital manual. People that have a hard time seeing will have more problems than with a paper manual. Really bad idea.

What.

Most of us here (and most kids) play video or handheld games for hours on end. Staring at a screen for ten minutes to learn how to play a game you can already play will not kill you

Besides you realize they sell a gigantic guide book to put you through the entirety of the game + where to find a metric-ton load of stuff post-game. If it is that big of a deal you could buy that, I got one as a Christmas present, can't say I use it, but it's there.

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You are not saving a whole lot of money XD.

Ahat are you talking about?? You've said this twice, do you not realize how much companies cut corners just to lower price. At a lower price more people buy, it also allows for larger profit margins.
People literally get payed hundreds of thousands of dollars to cut prices by a few pennies for large companies because you're selling millions of these products. Saving 1 penny at 1 million units sold is saving them 10,000

There are people who get payed more than you and I will ever get payed by large chip companies (such as lays) to figure out ways to cut prices by literally fractions of a penny. And people still buy the chips!

$15 not much??? Are you crazy?? That's like $105 million if they sold 7 mill units

Sorry to say this:
You and I are a consumers and Nintendo could care less about your feelings unless it puts a huge dent in their cash flow

 

[Leaf_Ranger]

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Besides you realize they sell a gigantic guide book to put you through the entirety of the game + where to find a metric-ton load of stuff post-game. If it is that big of a deal you could buy that, I got one as a Christmas present, can't say I use it, but it's there.

I don't think that the importance of the game's manual can be compared to a guide book, more so for players that treasure some aspects of the gaming experience like reading the manual. For me, the game's manual is part of starting a new journey, be it on Pokémon or on some other game. It's like a ritual.

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Warrant issues aside and despite kids nowadays being more tech-users than those of us who are now young adults, the charger should be included as it is something used when playing for saving the battery. I find the lack of it ridiculous just like when I've learned that one would need a memory card to save a game on PSOne (my last console before that was a Sega Master System II), because it didn't come with the console and by sheer luck a game I bought at the same time as the console had one.

 

[Ice Espeon]

This thread is being locked as it has strayed too far off-topic and is now more about the 3DS in general than ORAS. If you wish to discuss this topic further you can do so by creating a thread in Miscellaneous Discussion.