Nintendo 3DS thread

[Smooth Groove]

3DS is definitely not worth eating Wendy's for 3 months. 

[magus]

professor layton is probably coming in 2012 or something and by that time we will all be dead because of the mayans or something...

anyway those lines really puzzle me like... what the heck are they going to play on it? nintendogs again? are the japanese that bad? (rethoric question)

[Mr. Gundam]

No offense, but with the region locking in place, that person is an idiot, that is unless he reads/speaks the moon language fluently.

Considering it is region locked, it makes sense to have a jpn unit to pick up the games that don't require a grasp of the lanquage to play but will never be localised for the usa.  I got throught the japanese ouendan just fine at the time.

It doesn't make sense at almost $500 for the 3DS alone, though.  I want me some portable SSF4 too, but people importing now are insane-- the American release is only a month away, and nobody knows if some games will even be compatible with each other online.  I can't imagine online play versus people in Japan working too well on that thing.  Not to mention, WHAT import games?  All that shit is coming out here, too.

 

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Not buying one.

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[maxy]

what the heck are they going to play on it?

Nintendo games.Games will come,don't hate.

Anyway

New handheld has been born!

To celebrate,I will drink something
 

[pilonv1]

Wendys

[Sho Nuff]

I'd really like to know if there's stretching on legacy DS titles

[Sho Nuff]

LOL cvxfreak got one and his first game to play on it is RE Deadly Silence. Looks like it is stretching though. ugh

[magus]

professor layton is probably coming in 2012 or something and by that time we will all be dead because of the mayans or something...

anyway those lines really puzzle me like... what the heck are they going to play on it? Nintendo Dogs again? are the japanese that bad? (rethoric question)

Yeah, only the Japanese line up for new hardware regardless of whether or not the available software is good.  

They're going to play Street Fighter or Musou or Ridge Racer or maybe even Layton and nerd out over having the latest gadget on its day of release.  Some of them will scalp the system.  In other words, it's like every major hardware launch in every territory from the last ten years.

well i wasn't trying to be "boo the japanese!" it's just that everytime a new console get launched there are these "HURR DURR LOOK AT THE JAPANESE LINES!" pics

[Smooth Groove]

I don't know why it's noteworthy, either.  People will line up for virtually *anything*. 

Did they line up for your monster gaijin cock?

[originalz]

I don't know why it's noteworthy, either.  People will line up for virtually *anything*. 

That goddamn Auntie Annes that opened up in Ikebukuro like half a year ago still has absurd lines.  You'll be waiting 30 minutes minimum to get a pretzel, and if the weather outside is good then forget it.  I've wanted to go there since I used to like the pretzels in the States, but no way in hell am I that desperate.  You'd think the hype would have died down by now, but I guess they like those pretzels!

[Sho Nuff]

Not pictured: The other 250 idiots in line waiting at the side of the shop

[cool breeze]

Pilotwings is not part of the japanese launch? I want to see more of that since it might be the only game I'd be willing to get.

oh and the slider is balls.  forgot to mention that.  it's not psp-nub bad, but it's still a fucking slider.

I'm sure a good deal of the people praising it highly are crazy Nintendo people, but I've seen some sane people say it was great too, a lot of times relative to the PSP.  I'd imagine it would be hard to not to be better than a tiny dotted around hard plastic nub.  But yeah, it's still a slider, which is an expected compromise for handhelds.  oh wait.

random thing: The official name is "Circle Pad" for the 3DS.  The one on the PSP was just called an analog stick, and somewhere someone said nub and it stuck.  Previews really play up the newness of the "New Circle Pad" and it's funny how it is part of the feature list and marketing.

[maxy]

http://www.justin.tv/RedSunGamer#

[maxy]

from that stream

-Layton looks great
-Street Fighter looks great
-RR looks shitty,but plays well
-Camera res is shitty
-Internet browser is not working,update needed
-they like 3D effect

Also,that Wendy's gaf dude wrote this

Boosh, just killed the battery to the point where it would auto shut-off every time I tried to turn it back on.

There was a bit more than 2 hours and 45 minutes straight playing time from full juice with full 3D, full volume, WiFi, AR games, camera taking, etc.

And just killed the battery again to shut-off. With on and off wi-fi action for about 30 minutes and everything else running at full brightness, 3D, volume, I got about 3 hours and 45 minutes. This was of course with a smattering of SSFIV online battles, more AR games, playing some DS games for about 20 minutes, and again more SSFIV but just single player.

http://www.1up.com/news/video-super-mario-64-3ds

[maxy]

yay

DC

[T-Short]

http://yfrog.com/h5slgpj
 

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follow'd

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[Shaka Khan]

LOL cvxfreak got one and his first game to play on it is RE Deadly Silence. Looks like it is stretching though. ugh

FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU

Dreams shattered. No 3DS for me this year, gonna have to buy a DSi.

[Shaka Khan]

Seriously fuck that. Nintendo better offer something better with a firmware update if they want to prove they learned something from the competition.

[maxy]

LOL cvxfreak got one and his first game to play on it is RE Deadly Silence. Looks like it is stretching though. ugh

FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU

Dreams shattered. No 3DS for me this year, gonna have to buy a DSi.

Mario is not stretched

http://www.1up.com/news/video-super-mario-64-3ds

[Shaka Khan]

Is there an explanation to why it's not stretched? Please don't tell me it's random!

Hope slightly restored.

[Shaka Khan]

http://yfrog.com/h5slgpj
 

I know I sound like a broken record by now, but test the BC and report findings!

[Shaka Khan]

Thanks.

[bork]

No offense, but with the region locking in place, that person is an idiot, that is unless he reads/speaks the moon language fluently.

Considering it is region locked, it makes sense to have a jpn unit to pick up the games that don't require a grasp of the lanquage to play but will never be localised for the usa.  I got throught the japanese ouendan just fine at the time.

It doesn't make sense at almost $500 for the 3DS alone, though.  I want me some portable SSF4 too, but people importing now are insane-- the American release is only a month away, and nobody knows if some games will even be compatible with each other online.  I can't imagine online play versus people in Japan working too well on that thing.  Not to mention, WHAT import games?  All that shit is coming out here, too.

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Not buying one.

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Not a launch title.

professor layton is probably coming in 2012 or something and by that time we will all be dead because of the mayans or something...

anyway those lines really puzzle me like... what the heck are they going to play on it? Nintendo Dogs again? are the japanese that bad? (rethoric question)

Yeah, only the Japanese line up for new hardware regardless of whether or not the available software is good.   

They're going to play Street Fighter or Musou or Ridge Racer or maybe even Layton and nerd out over having the latest gadget on its day of release.  Some of them will scalp the system.  In other words, it's like every major hardware launch in every territory from the last ten years.

They didn't line up for the 360.   

[maxy]

/real talk

3DS looks like a rushed system,hardware and software

hardware
-at first Nintendo engineers were happy...nice budget,everything is going well(graphics,battery life) and then...let's shoehorn 3D,same budget,device proportions must not change,same battery...
 

-Nintendo Elite:battery life is shit,what to do?
-include cheap charging cradle

software
-DS emulation...cheap as possible,buy 3DS games
-3DS games?...wait^TM,suckers

[Dickie Dee]

DCharlie

how are the packed in AR things? are they neato?

[Cormacaroni]

I played around with someone's today. It's fairly unappealing, I have to say. The ARG stuff was fun for a while, but I can't see it being a long-term crowd pleaser.

[Dickie Dee]

I played around with someone's today. It's fairly unappealing, I have to say. The ARG stuff was fun for a while, but I can't see it being a long-term crowd pleaser.

That's basically how I see it 

I'm actually jonesing to try it out but suspect I'll be bored after 10 minutes. 3DS is not pushing my meter up to "buy" yet at all

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I'm just going to wait for the inevitable 3DS Lite.

[Shaka Khan]

there's no accounting for shitty taste!

Yeah, I was really shocked. Preferring a smeared picture over a sharp one, because one of the off-screen photos had a slight blue tint. Okay

[cool breeze]

[youtube=560,345]E9a5FjeujS8[/youtube]

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

there's no accounting for shitty taste!

Yeah, I was really shocked. Preferring a smeared picture over a sharp one, because one of the off-screen photos had a slight blue tint. Okay

Are you really shocked?  Cognitive dissonance is a staple "elsewhere" when it comes to fanboy camps.

[magus]

kind of a stupid question but do you get any 3D effect out of normal DS game?

[Shaka Khan]

[youtube=560,345]E9a5FjeujS8[/youtube]

Omg, omg, I've never been happier to see those gorgeous black side-bars. 3DS+R4 GET!

[cool breeze]

nope

There were some high expectations for ds emulation on this thing, I think.  but some people consider the circle pad mimicking the DS inputs a game changer, and think that Mario 64DS has analog control now (by emulating the touch screen  ).

[Shaka Khan]

From elsewhere:

DS mode is 320x240 on both screens, top screen has black borders.

But still looks smeared? I'm confused.

[Van Cruncheon]

yeah, because the ds native resolution is 256x192

[cool breeze]

There is confusion because the top screen is wide, and when you say stretched, people assume the top image is stretched to fill the entire wide screen.  That would change the aspect ratio.  It stretches the image without changing the aspect ratio, but it is still stretching it to fit the 3DS's slightly higher resolution.

[Shaka Khan]

yeah, because the ds native resolution is 256x192

Haha, I just realized that! For some reason I thought the original DS ran at a 320x240 native resolution.
 So when people were crying "stretched!" I thought they meant stretched to fill the 400-pixel width.
256x192 is just... Painfully piss-poor.

[cool breeze]

to be fair, when I think of 320x240 resolution, I think of the mid-2000s.  I can see why it is easy to confuse it with the original DS resolution.

[Bebpo]

http://yfrog.com/h5slgpj
 

Looks like a crowd of angry plastic pac-men ready to eat the 3DS

[Shaka Khan]

to be fair, when I think of 320x240 resolution, I think of the mid-2000s.  I can see why it is easy to confuse it with the original DS resolution.

Exactly. So much for being excited about R4 lol. If they somehow offer an option to run games at native resolution it'll be godlike! But I can see an option like that ruining some games that used a portrait view stretched between the two screens, a la Sonic Rush, as the gap and disconnect between the two screens would be wider.

Edit: holy fuck @ bebpo's avatar. My eyes. I can't see anymore!

[magus]

sooooooooooooooooooooo since dcharlie owns one + games
is layton the only decent not-a-port game as i keep suspecting?

[maxy]

http://www.nikkei.com/news/headline/article/g=96958A9C93819696E0E4E2E3828DE0E4E2E0E0E2E3E3E2E2E2E2E2E2;

400k sold(first shipment)
 

[maxy]

hey Sho Nuff,did you beat some kid?
 

[Bebpo]

http://www.nikkei.com/news/headline/article/g=96958A9C93819696E0E4E2E3828DE0E4E2E0E0E2E3E3E2E2E2E2E2E2;

400k sold(first shipment)
 

Real talk. 

Hasn't every system ever made from the NES to the Jaguar to the PS3 sold out of its initial shipment asap?  I don't really think the first 3 months of hardware sales for a new system matter at all.  What matters is how it's selling a year after launch.

[maxy]

launch day sales are easy,but 3DS is no ordinary machine


gaf sales genius posted this

Famitsu handheld openings

1989.04.21 (Nintendo GameBoy) - unknown (3 days)
1990.10.06 (Sega GameGear) - unknown (2 days)
1995.07.21 (Nintendo VirtualBoy) - unknown (3 days)
1996.07.21 (Nintendo GameBoyPocket) - unknown (1 day)
1998.04.14 (Nintendo GameBoyLight) - unknown (6 days)
1998.10.21 (Nintendo GameBoyColor) - 155.774 (5 days)
1998.10.28 (SNK NeoGeoPocket) - 21.471 (5 days)
1999.03.04 (Bandai WonderSwan) - 102.655 (4 days)
1999.03.19 (SNK NeoGeoPocketColor) - 18.809 (3 days)
2000.12.09 (Bandai WonderSwanColor) - 145.975 (2 days)
2001.03.21 (Nintendo GameBoyAdvance) - 611.504 (5 days)
2002.07.12 (Bandai SwanCrystal) - 30.692 (3 days)
2003.02.14 (Nintendo GameBoyAdvance SP) - 117.859 (3 days)
2004.12.02 (Nintendo DS) - 441.485 (4 days)
2004.12.12 (Sony PSP-1000) - 166.074 (1 day)
2005.09.13 (Nintendo GameBoyMicro) - 148.117 (6 days)
2006.03.02 (Nintendo DS Lite) - 67.653 (4 days)
2007.09.20 (Sony PSP-2000) - 263.538 (4 days)
2008.10.16 (Sony PSP-3000) - 155.720 (4 days)
2008.11.01 (Nintendo DSi) - 170.779 (2 days)
2009.11.01 (Sony PSP Go) - 28.275 (1 day)
2009.11.21 (Nintendo DSi LL) - 103.524 (2 days)
2011.02.26 (Nintendo 3DS) - xxx.xxx (2 days)

[EmCeeGrammar]

So dee charles, any interest in testing out the online stuff in Street Fighter?  I'm very curious in the 3ds online infrastructure.  Can you invite, send messages, etc to people who you have registered?

[Shaka Khan]

Sprsk confirmed that you can't send messages to people on your friends list, the possibility of that changing in a future firmware update remains to be seen (hint: since it's Nintendo, it probably won't).

[pilonv1]

Sprsk confirmed that you can't send messages to people on your friends list, the possibility of that changing in a future firmware update remains to be seen (hint: since it's Nintendo, it's probably won't)

What's the point of having a friends list then?

[Shaka Khan]

I know that's a rhetorical question, but I'm gonna dignify it with an answer:

Watching what people are playing I guess. Messaging is out. PS3-style invites are probably in, cross game invites 360-style seems like a stretch.

[AdmiralViscen]

Fuck this shit

I told myself with the Wii that I was done buying Nintendo hardware, but I wasn't sure I could follow through. I can.

[EmCeeGrammar]

You can already send messages on the wii, so I think it would be weird not to be able to do it on the 3ds.

[Shaka Khan]

It's one of the most basic and logical online implementations, I know. So far we only have sprsk's report as a source, but here's hoping there's more to it, like a confirmation that it would be patched in later like the eStore and web browser.

[Diunx]

(Image removed from quote.)

Not pictured: The other 250 idiots in line waiting at the side of the shop

that happened here last year when KK opened their first store in the country.

[Eel O'Brian]

there are calculators with higher res screens than the original ds

[Purple Filth]

Sprsk confirmed that you can't send messages to people on your friends list, the possibility of that changing in a future firmware update remains to be seen (hint: since it's Nintendo, it probably won't).

*if true*

This make no fucking sense. 

[Eel O'Brian]

no 3d sexting for ninthings

[Damian79]

Its most likely to prevent pedos as DS's are for kids mostly.

[maxy]

LOL cvxfreak got one and his first game to play on it is RE Deadly Silence. Looks like it is stretching though. ugh

FFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU

Dreams shattered. No 3DS for me this year, gonna have to buy a DSi.

Dreams restored.

can 3DS play DS game in 1:1 256x192 mode [not scale] ? yes you can

put down START&SELECT button and enter DS game mode

[Sho Nuff]

Woohoo! Maybe now I have a reason to beat up a little kid and jack his 3DS. Now I can experience all those existing DS games that I don't play on new hardware, yay