Calculator

Genre: Application

Players: 1

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Review:

Calculator is a Calculator Application released on the Nintendo DSi via the DSiWare service in 2011 and also released on the Nintendo 3DS eShop. As the title indicates, this software is a calculator. You know, type in numbers, do equations, that sort of thing.

The presentation here tries to mimic the look of a calculator as closely as possible, with keys on the bottom screen and a numerical screen on top, with no background music or noise aside from a small tap when you press a key.

This calculator tool doesn’t really explain its functions well to those using it, and I’m no calculator expert, but I can say that it does have different numerical systems (binary, decimal, octal, and hex), as well as what looks like logarithmic functions… yeah, I dunno, this is kinda’ out of my depth. I can say this doesn’t appear to be a graphing calculator software though. Oh, and I suppose I should mention that there’s also a handy unit conversion tool included here too.

The problem of course is that this is the sort of app we all already have access to on our smartphones. As such, I don’t know why you would spend $2 and waste precious space on your Nintendo 3DS for an app that does what you can undoubtedly do on your phone for free.

So… yeah, don’t buy Calculator, not unless you want to own a $2 oddity on your Nintendo 3DS.

tl;dr – Calculator is a Calculator Application that makes no sense to buy in a world where most people have a smartphone that can easily do the same thing for free. Unless you want this as some sort of curio, skip it.

Grade: F

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