Nintendo 3DS Events in January

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  • focus
    focus Members Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2011
    Its official.

    March 27th, 2011 - $249.99.
  • joshuaboy
    joshuaboy Members Posts: 10,858 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2011
    There will more than 25 3DS games made available between its 25th March EU launch and the E3 event in June, Nintendo has confirmed.

    The platform holder hasn't confirmed a definitive list yet but Pilotwings Resort, Nintendogs + Cats and Steel Diver will be among the first party offerings available in the launch window.

    Third party titles listed by Nintendo as "coming soon" include:

    * Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition
    * Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D Edition
    * The Sims 3
    * Madden NFL Football
    * PES 2011 3D – Pro Evolution Soccer
    * LEGO Star Wars III The Clone Wars
    * Ridge Racer 3D
    * Super Monkey Ball 3D
    * Thor: ? of Thunder
    * Puzzle Bobble Universe
    * Samurai Warriors: Chronicles
    * Dead or Alive: Dimensions
    * Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Shadow Wars
    * Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3D
    * Rayman 3D
    * Asphalt 3D
    * Combat of Giants: Dinosaurs 3D
    * James Noir's Hollywood Crimes
    * Driver: Renegade
    * Rabbids 3D

    We'll update with firm release dates as soon as they come in.



    http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-01-19-25-3ds-titles-coming-before-june
  • focus
    focus Members Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2011
    Nintendo Finally Makes Online Play Easy With 3DS

    Nintendo Finally Makes Online Play Easy With 3DS The Friend Code, the bane of every modern Nintendo gamer's existence, is getting a major overhaul with the release of the 3DS, allowing friends to find friends with little to none of the hair-pulling frustration that is currently involved.

    Gamers who try to play online with others using the DS or the Nintendo Wii currently have to exchange a set of 16-digit numbers to connect. Sometimes they have to do so twice, depending on the game they play. And often the game doesn't remember those codes, turning an online session of gaming into something more akin to math than fun.

    But the 3DS fixes some of that when it hits Japan in February and the U.S and Europe in March. The new Friend Code system will now be tied directly to the 3DS you own and there will only be one for each system, so no more secondary Friend Codes for games.

    The system, Nintendo tells us, will also be able to remember the codes you put in for your Friends and track whether they are currently online or not. If they're online, one of the lights in the top right corner of the portable will glow orange to alert you.

    The 3DS will have an app that tracks and can give you the current status of your friends at any given time.

    And finding and becoming friends sounds like it will sometimes be easier as well. While we don't yet know if they Friend Code will be a 16-digit number, or even a number at all, we do know that you will have to exchange them just once with your friend to offer and accept a friendship on the 3DS.

    But if you're connected with another friend via local wireless, you won't even have to do that. Instead you can push a button to accept or send friend requests and the 3DS will take down the number automatically and remember it.

    While this new system still isn't as effortless as being able to create easy-to-remember user names and connect them with a message from anywhere, a system that both the PS3 and Xbox 360 use, it's much better than the intricacies and extra numbers of the current Wii and DS Friend Code system.

    What we don't yet know, what no one at the event could yet answer for us: What format will the Friend Codes be in? Numbers or names and how long are they. And is there a cap for your friends list

    http://kotaku.com/5737803/nintendo-finally-makes-online-play-easy-with-3ds
  • ocelot
    ocelot Members Posts: 10,019 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2011
    focus wrote: »
    Its official.

    March 27th, 2011 - $249.99.

    to much

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  • focus
    focus Members Posts: 5,361 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited January 2011
    How Does The Nintendo 3DS Price Stack Up?

    How Does The Nintendo 3DS Price Stack Up?Nintendo has revealed the launch price of the Nintendo 3DS, the company's priciest portable yet at $249.99 USD. How does Nintendo's stereoscopic 3D gaming handheld compare to the competition and its ancestors?

    The cost of buying into Nintendo's latest and greatest portable gaming systems has been on the rise since the launch of the DS Lite in 2006. The company released a smaller, lighter version of its wildly popular Nintendo DS system at a price lower than the original version. From then on, there was nowhere to go but up.

    Let's break it down, chart-style.

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    How Does The Nintendo 3DS Price Stack Up?

    The Game Boy was Nintendo's most budget-friendly release, a platform that also included a free game, Tetris, in the package. Adjusted for inflation, the Game Boy would cost about $158 USD in 2010 dollars (based on the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index inflation adjustment calculator).

    The Game Boy Advance, released in 2001 for $99.99 USD would set Nintendo fans back about $123 USD today. The GBA SP also launched at the same price in 2003.

    One Nintendo platform not on this list is the doomed Virtual Boy, which launched in 1995 for about $180 USD. It would cost about as much as a Nintendo 3DS in 2010 dollars.

    How does Nintendo's new 3DS fare against the competition in terms of handheld pricing?

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    How Does The Nintendo 3DS Price Stack Up?

    It's at the higher end of the scale, matching the price point of the PSP and PSPgo's respective launch prices in 2005 and 2009. (Adjusted for inflation, a 2005 PSP would cost about $280 today.) Given the PSP's relative success—especially compared to the rest of the failed handhelds on this chart—$250 USD seems like a price point that could work for Nintendo.

    It's cheaper than an N-Gage at least and the inflation adjusted price of an Atari Lynx, which would set you back $334 USD today. Yowch!

    http://kotaku.com/5737948/how-does-the-nintendo-3ds-price-stack-up