You’ll be paying $250 when you pick up your Nintendo 3DS this weekend, but how much does it cost Nintendo to put the thing together? An estimate puts the total parts cost to Nintendo (not counting R&D, marketing, etc.) at just less than $100. These Apple-like levels of profit we’re talking about here. → Read More
One of the objections often raised against 3D, and with justice, is that people with certain common vision problems can’t see the 3D effect. It just has to do with 3D technology assuming a certain level of intact functionality in the visual system, and the fact is that a significant portion of the population, for one reason or the other, doesn’t meet that level. Our own Matt Burns can’t really see… → Read More
The Nintendo 3DS is now the single most pre-ordered video game console ever. Well, according to Amazon.co.uk, and you’d have to assume that most, if not all, of those pre-orders are going to UK residents. → Read More
The Nintendo 3DS is still a few weeks away from release here in North America (March 27, to be exact), but that doesn’t mean you can’t play with it right now. Nintendo has begun a series of demo events in cities around the country where you can, in their own words, “be one of the first to experience the Nintendo 3DS system before launch day.” What cities are involved? → Read More
Not much to say here except that you just spent a lot of money on your 3DS and you should protect it. Sure, you could get some weak plastic shell, but real men use a solid metal case… while they play with their Nintendogs & Cats. Hey, real men can play whatever they want. [via i4u] → Read More
Take a break from all the iPad 2 announcements and check out what’s going on with the Nintendo 3DS, set to release March 27. Some good news has come out about the little gamer: Netflix streaming and free AT&T WiFi coming soon. → Read More
The official word from Panasonic is that “changes in the market and in our own strategic direction” caused the cancelation of the Jungle gaming system. In other words, Panny suits finally came to their senses and decided it’s a bit too late in the game to bring a whole new platform to market. With Sony rolling out the powerhouse NGP handheld and Nintendo moving towards 3D bliss… → Read More
t would appear that the Nintendo 3DS is a hit. Nintendo has shipped some 400,000 units since its launch last Saturday in Japan, with reports of the system being sold out throughout the country. (The system will be released in North America on March 27.) That’s the good news for Nintendo. The bad news is that it’s already been hacked. Oh dear. → Read More
We won’t be getting the 3DS for another month (it hits the US on March 27th), but in Japan, thousands of people are lining up to nab their handheld from retailers across the country. It’s safe to say it’s going to be a quiet, indoors weekend for many in the land of the rising sun. Our Japanese readers are probably waiting in line, and so won’t be reading this, but the rest… → Read More
After the 3DS debuted, we saw that the UK pricing was a little… off. Even considering VAT, the £229 prices we were seeing seemed rather high. They’ve been dropping, though, and now many retailers are going below £200 — still quite a bit more than the $250 we’re going to get it for here in the states, but getting on towards reasonable. → Read More
Nintendo was a little cryptic about the 3DS launch titles. The phrase “initial launch window” was used to discribe games coming out during the 3DS’s first few months rather than the launch day titles. Well, the 3DS launches in North America on March 27 and the launch titles were just revealed. Sorry, kids. It doesn’t include Zelda, Star Fox, Kid Icarus or Mario Kart. Those are coming by the end… → Read More
Here she is, gamers: the fabled Nintendo 3DS. The gaming system hits Japan within the coming days, but one Chinese site got their hands on one a bit early and tore it down for the whole world to see. The system doesn’t look all that magical splayed-out, but glasses-free 3D is nothing sort of pure sorcery. [TGBUS via Kotaku] → Read More
When I first saw the 3DS six months ago, and even later when I saw the official pictures, I pretty much just thought of the 3DS as a slightly chunkier DS. But of course the people in charge of designing it know better than that, and when you’re making a device that will be held for hundreds of hours by tens of millions of people… every little thing counts.
Nintendo’s president, Satoru Iwata… → Read More
Not that this should shock any of you, but Nintendo has admitted that it’s working on a new, proper Mario game for the 3DS. So says the mighty Shigeru Miyamoto, who was recently profiled in the New Yorker. This is most welcome news, yes. → Read More
This latest iPhone 5 rumor seems to have come completely out of left field, but that’s partially what makes it exciting. How does a 3D screen grab you? Do you respond with “Oh, wow, awesome!” or is it more along the lines of “Er, what?” No answer is wrong. → Read More
Although the headline oversimplifies Nintendo UK’s James Honeywell’s comments on piracy (what are headlines for?), it’s more or less what he said, and Nintendo seems to actually think that its steps to curb piracy are going to be effective. To be fair, Honeywell also described crowing about piracy countermeasures as being “like a red rag to a bull,” which mirrors my own thoughts. → Read More
I’ve gotten used to the fact that Nintendo and a few other companies will pretty much never tell you what you want to know, just what they want you to know. Makes me feel a bit like I’m parroting PR, but for something like the 3DS, we’ll take what information we can get. In this case, Nintendo is on form and deftly maneuvering around specifics, while still managing getting a few solid answers out. → Read More
Nintendo has finally launched its new handheld, the 3DS, after nearly 10 months of anticipation, and as usual, has been coy about some key details. The complete launch lineup is still a mystery, and while they announced a $250 price for the US, the rest of the world has been left out of the loop. However, retailers and rumors are putting international pricing details on the map, and it’s looking a… → Read More
The one disappointing thing about the Nintendo event from this morning: we still don’t have the exact list of launch titles, with Nintendo instead opting to draw attention to the system’s “launch window,” the several week period between its March 27 launch and E3. What are you gonna do? Me, I played a couple of these “launch window” games right after the press conference. Here’s a quick… → Read More
First the good news: Nintendo’s 3DS will hit the US on March 27, 2011 for $249. That’s less than the speculated $299 price and a good deal considering the international 3DS price but still $70 more than the current most expensive Game Boy. The 3DS comes packaged with a charging dock and a 2GB SD card. Cosmos Black and Aqua Blue are going to be available in North America and Japan at… → Read More
Nicholas here, live from Nintendo’s big press conference in New York. The star of the show will be the 3DS, and Nintendo is expected to announce launch details: exact release date, price, games, etc. The stuff you’ve been waiting for. Like with the IBM Jeopardy challenge last week, feel free to refresh this post every minute or so; I still don’t know how to use fancy… → Read More
Maybe we’ll know more about this tomorrow, but Nintendo has shed some light on why the 3DS will be region locked when it comes out in the next few weeks. Nintendo says that it developed three distinct versions of the system, for Japan, for the Americas, and for Europe-Australia. Different regions, different ideas about parental responsibility and what’s appropriate for children, different laws… → Read More
When the Nintendo 3DS comes out in March, gamers may find something unexpected. Sure, it’s going to have a glasses-free top screen and a lower touch panel budled in with Wifi. But, wouldn’t it be really neat if there were a 3D camera that allowed video recording. Think of the augmented reality options! Mario could actually run around your living room table and eaten by your cat! → Read More
You forget about some of the fun stuff you’ve seen after having spent an entire week fighting crowds in Las Vegas while sick and tired. And I do mean sick and tired: I was sick flying into Las Vegas (you know the sharp, stabbing pain you get in your ears when your airplane descends from the heavens while sick? Yeah, I had that, and it wasn’t fun), and all that running around, lugging… → Read More
If you’ve ever thought to yourself, “Golly gee, I sure would like to know what the insides of the 3DS look like,” then today is your lucky day. The CirclePad, like you’ve never seen it before~! → Read More
It would appear that Nintendo has region-locked the 3DS. That’s lame, yes, but outside of importing the rare game here or there—perhaps you want the latest Pokemon without having to wait several months for the localized version—it’s probably not a huge deal for the majority of Nintendo fans. An email sent from Nintendo of Japan to a perspective 3DS buyer says that both the system and… → Read More
The Nintendo Japan site disclosed the official specs on the 3DS, and while overall it looks good, there is one thing that might be a deal breaker for some. Apparently, it takes a whole lot of battery life to power a 3D screen, even one the size of the 3DS. → Read More
Nintendo has released the full list of 3DS launch titles—for Japan, that is. (Nintendo hosts a press conference next week in New York that, one would guess, will cover the North American 3DS launch details. We’ll be there, knock on wood.) Ten games will be available at launch on February 26: Konami’s Winning Eleven Soccer (known as Pro Evolution Soccer outside Japan); Namco Bandai’s Ridge… → Read More
As you probably are aware, the Nintendo 3DS is just around the corner: it will hit Japanese stores on February 26, followed by the US and European markets in March. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata gave an interview in The Nikkei (Japan’s biggest business daily) yesterday, in which he stated some ambitious goals for his company’s new product. → Read More
Japan is getting the 3DS on February 26. That’s a fact per Nintendo themselves. But so far the rest of the world is left wondering when they’ll be able to buy it although most are speculating that early March is likely.
That thought seems to be confirmed with a Gamestation shop window display that clearly indicates that the 3D gaming system will be released on March 1st. Of course this is from… → Read More
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