Nintendo 3DS thread

[Shaka Khan]

They can't bring over Layton 3DS because they're still missing a DS entry which is the direct prequel to the 3DS one :X  Going to be a few years...

Ughhhhhhhhhh

[cool breeze]

I'd love to buy SSFIV for launch, but I'm pretty burnt on fighters. I played SSFIV, BBCS, and MvC3 back to back

Did they announce a Layton release? that would be a perfect launch game for me, other than that I'm mostly looking at some missed DS game. Don't ask me why I'm buying this day 1, I'm just gonna.

My reasoning is that I know I'm buying Ocarina of Time in June, and I don't think this thing is going to get much cheaper in ~2 months.

I want Pilotwings and that's what I'm buying, but it definitely sounds disappointing when it can be finished in under 3 hours (as in, 100% everything).  And apparently the way pad the length are collectibles that extend the time you can play.  So, yeah.  That for $39.99    I'm a terrible consumer, or a great one, I don't know anymore.

(That's just my reasoning.  It's really because I like getting new hardware to play with.  I don't own every iteration of the DS and PSP (sans DS XL) because I'm sane.)

[Shaka Khan]

Oh yeah, I forgot about OoT, unlike anyone who calls himself a gamer, I never actually played the game

Pilotwings is another title I was really interested in, but I'm gonna skip for the same reason you cited. I don't care for Steel Diver, or RR, so I might end up picking the Musou game only.

[SantaC]

Needs compelling original software.

but since all of level 5 games on the DS are all published by nintendo and they aren't going to publish anything else outside of layton which will probably get released by 2013,there is really nothing interessing for the poor gaijin

castlevania 3DS

[magus]

konami is dead,having imaginary konami games is not good for your mental health



number of games reduced from awesome 2D graphics to crappy 3D ones thanks to the 3D gimmick = 2!
we can do better!

(first would be cave story btw)

[Diunx]

Steel Diver looks like the most boring shit ever, why are you guys talking about it? I didn't even know it was from nintendo it just looks like some random launch shovelware that some poor company put together in a few months.

[archie4208]

Steel Diver looks like a poor man's Silent Hunter.

[Himu]

RIP 2d GAMING

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Samurai Warriors and Ridge Racer definitely seem to be the games to get at launch.

I'd rather play Gundam Musou 3 or Samurai Warriors 3Z or Dynasty Warriors 7 if I wanted to play musou.  Likewise I'd just play RR6/7 if I wanted to play Ridge. 

Needs compelling original software.

I will probably end up playing all of those Musou games and I spent dozens of hours in RR6.  Doesn't make me want these games any less.

I agree about the lack of original software but it seems like there are a few good original games coming down the pipeline.  If it doesn't pan out, I can always sell it when the NGP comes out, no big deal.  Heck, I can probably sell it almost at cost this Christmas most likely if it isn't holding up.

[iconoclast]

RIP 2d GAMING

Alive and well on the Xbox 360.

[Great Rumbler]

RIP 2d GAMING

Alive and well on the PC.

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[iconoclast]

True. MAME is the greatest gaming platform of all time.

[Himu]

RIP 2d GAMING

Alive and well on the Xbox 360.

Yawn.

[MCD]

>2D

Old nostalgia trash.

[Damian79]

You gettign the nyko accessory that doubles battery life wrathx?

[Trent Dole]

[maxy]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

[Great Rumbler]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

That's being headed up by Julian Gollop, who created the XCOM series.

[Vizzys]

Ive heard good impressions of shadow wars

ill wait for a review tho

[Shaka Khan]

I had no idea this game was turn based strategy. I'll have to keep an eye on it.

[bork]

Oh yeah, I forgot about OoT, unlike anyone who calls himself a gamer, I never actually played the game

Pilotwings is another title I was really interested in, but I'm gonna skip for the same reason you cited. I don't care for Steel Diver, or RR, so I might end up picking the Musou game only.

Seems like a lot of cash to drop on just a musou game.  Get DW7 instead and just skip the 3DS for now.

[pilonv1]

Garbage Day

[cool breeze]

People are talking about Toys R Us deals for 3DS games.  I don't know if there is an official source or whatever, but it's:

This Sunday (release date of the 3DS): buy one, get one 50% off (so $60 for 2 games).  The following Sunday in April: buy select 3DS games, get $10 credit.

If that is the case, I might get Ridge Racer too.

[demi]

I got to play with 3DS while in Chicago.

WOW! I loved the AR Card. Easily Gimmick of the Year. I love the 3D effect. I am this close to buying one day one - just for the AR Card, to show it to people.

[muckhole]

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

That's being headed up by Julian Gollop, who created the XCOM series.

That's actually the only launch title I'm excited for. But at least I get my new hardware fever fix.

[maxy]

Yoshinori Ono will battle fans and sign copies of Street Fighter 3DS game tomorrow

The producer of Super Street Fighter IV Yoshinori Ono will be present at the official 3DS launch at HMV Oxford Street tomorrow night.

Ono will take part in Street Fighter battles on stage and conduct an exclusive signing to mark the launch of Nintendo’s new 3DS handheld. It goes on sale at midnight on the night of Thursday, March 24th.

“I’ll be visiting HMV’s flagship shop in London at 11pm 24th,” Ono said on Twitter, before posting an image of his Blanka Street Fighter figurine at an airport.

“I'll ride on plane to London. I’m looking forward to meet European Street Fighter fans,” he added.

Super Street Fighter IV 3D is a launch title for the 3DS.

The first 500 people in the queue at HMV Oxford Street tomorrow night will get a free 3DS game of their choice. The retailer will also open 100 UK stores nationwide to celebrate the launch of the 3DS.

A separate 3DS VIP launch event will hold 2,000 guests and will feature performances from Plan B, Hadouken, DJ Yoda and more.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/43624/SSFIV-producer-heads-to-3DS-launch

[Don Flamenco]

So the CycloDS works with this thing and the Acekard 2i is supposed to get an update that lets it work on the 3DS.  Has anything been said about Nintendo blocking these?  Could a firmware update easily block these? 

If they work on a launch 3DS, I might get one, then wait for games to come out to update.  My other option is hoping that cheap DSi systems pop up on Amazon Warehouse on 3DS launch (cheapest is $95 right now)

[Himu]

There's a rumor that using r4's makes Nintendo brick your system.

[demi]

$95 is hella cheap... I didnt know Don Flamenco was a poor though, so I guess that's ok.

[Shaka Khan]

There's a rumor that using r4's makes Nintendo brick your system.

I'm gonna file this under FUD until hard reports start floating around.

[magus]

There's a rumor that using r4's makes Nintendo brick your system.

I'm gonna file this under FUD until hard reports start floating around.

if you search for the rumor,you will find this on gonintendo who reports destructoid who reports some small-time new site

all of these parts have in their best interess to go "FLASHCARD WILL TURN YOU INTO A BABY EATING DEMONS" so yeah......

[Himu]

Well, it makes sense.

The 3ds has a feature that documents what game you've played and for how long.

Apparently flashcarts seem to say their name of the cart used (dead giveaway), or are labeled as one game played with an obscene number of hours.

With online implementation, coding something to brick anyone with questionable stuff like this should be easy.

[magus]

you are saying that like the DS or the Wii have no way at all to realize that...

let's go the other way around,the first batch of flashcard wasn't 3DS compatible so they had to do a second batch (which happened really quickly,like instantly) at that point why not brick the 3DS as soon as the first batch was detected and blocked?

[Himu]

ds online implementation is poor and doesn't tell what games you've been playing and wii is irrelevant because wii piracy isn't as big as ds piracy.

[magus]

the ds online implementation is poor yet at the moment there isn't even an online shops on 3DS and we are worrying about mystical bricking update

[demi]

Magus laying the smack. Nintendo didnt learn shit, never does, never will. Enjoy your port of Ocarina.

[Himu]

the ds online implementation is poor yet at the moment there isn't even an online shops on 3DS and we are worrying about mystical bricking update

I'm not saying it's true, just saying it's feasible.

[maxy]

If true nintendo will be facing huge lawsuits,bricking hardware is no-no.It will be cracked,bypased anyway.

MS tried to "brick" 360 hard-drives some time ago...next update magically made them fully operational

[Don Flamenco]

lol they can't purposely brick systems as a punishment for flash cards.  Maybe they'll ban you from online, but I don't think 3DS online will be important any way.

$95 is hella cheap... I didnt know Don Flamenco was a poor though, so I guess that's ok.

not poor, but I am Jewish.  the idea of saving $20 by waiting 5 days is almost more exciting than the system itself!

[Raban]

There was a dude on the local CL who was selling a DSi XL for $60 that I e-mailed about...haven't gotten a reply

[bork]

Gaffots are freaking out over TEH SHORTAGE!!!11 

I dropped by the Gamestop I have the system reserved at to trade in some games, and the clerk told me that today was the cut-off date.  Everyone at that location who reserved before tonight is fine. 

So once again, I wonder why the types of people who would bite their nails off over not getting a system at launch don't go and pre-order one somewhere.

[TakingBackSunday]

Or people could just wait, literally, several days.  It's what I did for the Wii.  Got one just fine the following Wednesday.

[bork]

It's hard to say with that...I remember my sister-in-law had to keep trying week after week after week to get my brother a Wii for a present.

But on the flip side of the coin, when I was in the land of waiting for stupid games, Japan, I got two DS Lites a week after launch despite everyone reporting "MASSIVE SHORTAGES EVERYWHERE!!!."  Just went to two stores, reserved them, and they called me.  Simple as that.  I sold the second Lite for a nice little profit online.

[cool breeze]

I'm glad to hear today really was the last day to preorder.  I asked if I could switched my order to blue and the person said "YES BUT YOU HAVE TO DO IT TODAY...LIKE RIGHT NOW" it was too much pressure so I ran away.  I was thinking about getting blue because it kinda looks like a toy with glitter and stuff and blue seems more child-like.  But kept my black order anyway, and I'll probably get a white PSP2 to keep the balance.  I like to have an ebony and ivory theme going.


btw, I think Kmart has a deal where you get $25 of a 3DS game when you buy the system there. 

[Trent Dole]

Gaffots are freaking out over TEH SHORTAGE!!!11 

I dropped by the Gamestop I have the system reserved at to trade in some games, and the clerk told me that today was the cut-off date.  Everyone at that location who reserved before tonight is fine. 

So once again, I wonder why the types of people who would bite their nails off over not getting a system at launch don't go and pre-order one somewhere.

Uh, my job got nine of them in and we have a whopping three reserves. This won't be as hard to get a hold of at launch as a proper console. 

[Joe Molotov]

I preordered one at Best Buy last Friday, and I think I was the first person to preorder one because (a) the machine that printed out the preorder tickets had paper jammed in it and I had to get some guy to come over and fix it, and (b) when I took the ticket to the front desk, the girl had no idea what it was and called over a manager who also had no idea what it was, but fortunately the ticket had instructions on it for what you were supposed to do with it.

[demi]

or it could be you live in hickville oklahoma where they still use tractors

[Joe Molotov]

True, the Tractor Supply probably sold out of preorders once that 3DS commercial aired on Nancy Grace.

[Damian79]

Preorders for Nintendo's imminent 3DS portable hardware on Amazon UK are now more than double what the Wii achieved in 2006, putting it ahead of all other Nintendo launches on the online retailer in the region.

It's also 71 percent higher than the previous Amazon UK hardware pre-order record set by the PlayStation 3 in 2007, and more than five times what the Nintendo DSi achieved in 2009.

The preorders are up from late last week, when Amazon UK said 3DS preorders were just 56 percent more than the Nintendo Wii. Amazon UK has not released actual preorder sales figures.

According to Amazon UK, the 3DS has already featured twice in its top ten bestsellers' chart. The launch game lineup for the device, which includes titles like Ridge Racer 3D and Super Street Fighter IV, all occupy spaces on the retailer's top twenty "Hot Future Releases."

Amazon UK's top five most pre-ordered gaming hardware devices are as follows:

1. Nintendo 3DS (March 2011)
2. PlayStation 3 (March 2007)
3. Nintendo Wii (December 2006)
4. Microsoft Kinect (November 2010)
5. PlayStation Move (September 2010)

The 3DS launches in the UK on March 25, and is priced at £187 ($304) on the site.

[EmCeeGrammar]

I look forward to another gen of nintendo dominance success and butthurt nerds claiming its hurting their hobby somehow.

[bork]

or it could be you live in hickville oklahoma where they still use tractors

Maybe this applies to Trent Dole, too.   

The Gamestop near me is one of, if not the highest-traffic stores in Atlanta.  For a while they even had two separate Gamestops in the same mall. 

[Beezy]

Saw this at BB last week. 3D screen is cool, but both screens seem so small. It's a pretty ugly handheld too. The analog slider thingy is cool though. I think I'll wait for the 3DSlite or something.

[Shaka Khan]

I'm getting excited for the thing after reading impressions from people who I know for a fact aren't lip-locked to Iwata's hole; first DCharlie, then Smooth, and now Beezy. Good stuff.

(Although to be fair, Beezy is newly converted and used to be a self-loathing ninthing)

[Beezy]

I still like Nintendo, but they haven't done shit for me lately. Even the recent vids for the new Zelda, my favorite Nin franchise, didn't excite me at all.

Btw, the 3D effect was fucking with my head when I had my glasses on. I felt fine when I played it without them.

[Hitler Stole My Potato]

I'll probably buy one when there's something on there that's worth playing.  Pilotwings and Street Fighter aren't doing it for me.

[muckhole]

That's why I'm hanging all my hopes on Ghost Recon. If I wasn't such an X-Com nut, the software end of the launch would be a total bust. (May still be, depending on how GR turns out.)

[tiesto]

Should be getting a nice chunk of tax money soon, but I wasn't interested enough in it to want to preorder. I think I'm gonna wait and just ask for it for my birthday in July. By then, Zeruda will be out and we'll hopefully get a Rocket Slime US confirmation.

[maxy]

140k 3DS preorders in UK

Eurogamer has 3DS teardown

According to a "preliminary estimate" handed to Eurogamer by David Carey, VP of technical intelligence for UBM TechInsights, the cost of the system's raw materials comes in at $101 per unit (around £61.76). That equates to around a $15 (around £9.17) increase over the DSi, which launched in 2009 for £149.

Compare that to the 3DS's initial £230 asking price and you wouldn't be blamed for smelling a rat. Bear in mind though that the DSi was released relatively late in the handheld's phenomenally successful life cycle, at a time when Nintendo could afford to take risks, having already made back a significant wedge of its original R&D investment.

Of course, on top of the raw materials there are also a number of other costs to consider, such as labour, marketing, packaging and distribution, not to mention those sizeable R&D costs to recoup. Naturally, Nintendo won't reveal what its margin is or what it charges retailers per unit. However, a reliable retail source tells Eurogamer the going price is £170.73.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-24-why-the-nintendo-3ds-costs-GBP230-article

Nintendo


Price is going down

Supermarket Tesco and high-street electronics shop Currys have both lowered the Nintendo 3DS price to under £180.

Tesco is lowest, asking just £175 for the new device, according to MCV. Currys is after £179, wrote TechRadar.

To qualify for that Tesco price, you'll need to buy an accompanying 3DS game in-store.

Curry's will only sell the 3DS for £179 to the first 150 people in line at Currys on Oxford Street, London.

Those 150 people will also get a £75 voucher book, a £5 discount on selected 3DS games, £15 off Wii Fit and £20 off a Wii console.

Supermarket Morrisons and Amazon had offered the joint-lowest 3DS price of £187.

Party time

'Nintendo 3DS Ignition' will air tomorrow night on Sky 3D and Sky 1 HD

The 3DS VIP launch event in London’s Old Billingsgate tonight will be broacast by Sky.

Comedian Russell Kane and musicians Plan B, Hadouken, DJ Yoda and Parade will perform at the event which will hold 2,000 guests. Competition winners and Club Nintendo members are among those attending.

The TV show – hosted by Emma Willis – will be broadcast on Friday, March 25th at 11.30pm on Sky 3D and Sky 1 HD.

In January Sky announced it will supply 3D TV shows to the Nintendo 3D, such as sports, entertainment and documentaries. The 3DS goes on sale at midnight tonight in many retailers across the UK.

[Shaka Khan]

The price war in the UK is amazing. You'll often find high profile games sold for half the price day 1, the FIFA and COD games come to mind.

[Phoenix Dark]

can't wait for all the innovative games this new gameplay revolution will foster