Nintendo 3DS won't have achievement feature.

When the Nintendo teams create their games, they don't tell you how to play their game in order to achieve some kind of mythical reward.

Trinen said, explaining his view of why Nintendo's top creators have stayed off the Achievement bandwagon. "Basically, the way the games are designed is they're designed for you to explore the game yourself and have this sense of discovery," he said. "To that end, I think that when you look specifically at games from EAD [the group long led by Mario and Donkey Kong creator Shigeru Miyamoto] and a lot of other games that Nintendo has developed a well, there are things you can do in the game that will result in some sort of reward or unexpected surprise. In my mind, that really encourages the sense of exploration rather than the sense of 'If I do that, I'm going to get some sort of artificial point or score that's going to make me feel better that I got this.' And that, to me, is I think more compelling."


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