NINTENDO 3DS

300 would make this a not-day-one purchase for me.
basically anything above 200 for any handheld is outta my range.

yeah, that's quite a lot! I mean, more than a 360 or a ps3 - kind of mind boggling (even if they get it down to $250 in NA). Depends on the games for me, but I'm not really interested in 3D effects or a gameboy virtual console, they're going to have to be something really special & special isn't more Mario Kart and Zelda remakes and Animal Crossing again.

also with new iPad refresh (and price drop?) coming out around then - that's where I'm looking to spend some money, I think

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n10/conference2010/3ds/lineupMovHigh.html

also with the psp2 being announced soon

yikes, well that price has killed my launch day boner. will wait for inevitable hardware revision & price cut instead.

isnt everything way more expensive in japan?

shocked at the price but still do want

i think it sounds terrible

never mind, psp2 incoming

well that price has killed my launch day boner

wow, guess I was mad rong about the price. apparently the DSi XL launched at a way higher price than the US version so all I can do is hold out hope for that to happen again, but even so it'll still probably be priced like the PSP GO.

the software looks sick as hell though. also Virtual Console for GB/GBA games finally confirmed! (even though I only really give a shit about getting Link's Awakening)

yeh but it doesn't look like they've done anything about their online structure ie. purchases tied to the hardware, so if your handheld breaks you lose your digital downloads.

holy shit, LAYTON PHOENIX WRIGHT CROSSOVER!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gufhYicCUs4

ALSO WANT THIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0ebK-dEt3k

infinite OMG at Phoenix Wright x Layton

level 10

Phoenix Wright + Layton! And they brought Maya back, it looks like...

Chris says: Holy. Fucking. Shit. This is the best day ever. I can’t remember the last time I got excited for a game like this. And for purely stupid fanboy reasons, like OH MY GOD MAYA AND LUKE CAN BE BEST FRIENDS OMG OMG OMG. I need to go take a few deep breaths.

Also I kind of feel like this is the beginning of the end for both series because they are probably jumping the shark big time, but what the hell, if it’s gonna happen anyway let’s get on that shark and ride it.

Whoever Chris is he's OTM, I had a totally geeky dream about Nick/Maya/Luke/Layton game last night.

http://i54.tinypic.com/dh8fi1.png

It wasn't a slash thing, oh man. I feel like saying anything more is just shoveling myself deeper.

subbed version of the trailer (turn annotations on)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6HjKH5YarA

the design (with 3 separate mouldings instead of 2) makes the 3DS /look/ a lot thicker than it actually is
http://i.imgur.com/q4e0A.jpg

if they shaved 1mm off the top casing so it looks like it's equivalent to the bottom and made the bottom section just one moulding then it would look a lot better imo

3-5 hours on one charge, and 3 and a half hours to charge? ugh. very bad if true.

Keep reading thing like "it's amazing how much easier it is to fly through rings when they're in 3D", but is pilotwings a game that needed to be any easier? Is ANY nintendo game?

lol you haven't played that new Donkey Kong game then

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5GdDwripjE

I doubt the 3D will make it easier to get a complete line of furniture in Animal Crossing.

A very hard game, that one.

Har, yeah ok. I guess I'm just still hurting after looking forward to all those Gamecube games like waverace and 1080, then finishing them in 2 nights each and being like "huh?".

i feel ya there (why did I get Luigi's Mansion, anyway), but then again: F-Zero GX. i'm more hopeful about the tag features and augmented reality stuff so far - there hasn't been any cool gameplay concepts as of yet that will really use the 3D. still, kinda psyched about that lineup

And it's region locked.

>:(

officially holding out until it gets haXored to support all regions (or, more likely, until Paper Mario gets released)

Or until the 2nd generation version with the non-lol battery life arrives.

yeah seriously. 3-5 hours is like PSP levels of lolsomeness.

Given how deep the DS catalog is, I can't see any possible reason for wanting the 1st gen version of this, given the $ & battery life.

I can:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PdnkREYvjk

does look excellent, no doubt

just don't get what's the use of a handheld with that kinda battery life; I guess it's mostly for playing at home?

one reason it bugs me is that I get paranoid about how many charges my portable batteries are gonna take before dying.

this is a really strong lineup but I can't help but think about how this is the end of one of the last bastions from 2d gaming. :-/

Last I saw the region-lock wasn't confirmed - has anyone seen a solid confirmation yet? That really sucks. And along with that battery life :( Wah.

I'm afraid they've sucked me into being a first-gen sucker with Nintendogs/cats and a Professor Layton alone :( But oooh, Paper Mario 3D, holey moley.

I don't see my actual DS languishing in the corner though - if the battery life is that crap it still looks as if the DS will be coming out and about with me. I also need a new special library card since my other one broke (my fix isn't it good enough).

I've never early adopted any system and the only way I'd start with the 3ds would be if it comes in under 200. Otherwise, I'll wait for the price drop in a year.

250 is awful close to getting me to preorder, especially as these are gonna be impossible to find.

YEAR SYSTEM NAME PRICE *ADJ. PRICE
(1989) Game Boy (Nintendo) $90 $153
(1989) Atari Lynx $190 $324
(1990) TurboExpress (NEC) $250 $405
(1991) Game Gear (Sega) $150 $233
(1995) Virtual Boy (Nintendo) $180 $250
(1998) Game Boy Color $80 $105
(2001) Game Boy Advance $100 $121
(2003) N-Gage (Nokia) $300 $350
(2004) Nintendo DS $130 $146
(2005) PSP (Sony) $250 $272
(2009) Nintendo DSi $170 N/A
(2009) PSP Go $250 N/A
(2011) Nintendo 3DS $250 N/A

fuck it, preordered. YES COBO (also I get to write it off).

I plan on haXor1ng it as soon as I possibly can and in those cases it's always best to have first-revision hardware. more importantly, PAPER MARIO 3DS.

― FART MAGNET STUDIOS IS SCREWING US AGAIN!!!1!1!!!1!! (jamescobo), Wednesday, January 19, 2011 6:09 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you mean to be on the 3ds thread i think

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I have a sneaking suspicion that Nintendo saw my pre-order and immediately decided to delay Paper Mario 3DS for like five years tho :(

you know what, i just realized i've never preordered a system before and that this thing is gonna sell for twice what i bought it for on ebay if i wanna ditch it so fuckit i'm treating myself.

i do feel like the proper response to "$250" is "fuckit" though

so tempted. on one hand, i finally got a job. on the other hand, i finally got a job.

maybe i'll just buy them for scalping

Tokyo Rumble is the shit, it's basically a Yakuza game drenched in 8/16-bit charm. hopefully the demand is sufficient to convince Natsume to bring other Kunio games stateside; there's already a 3DS collection in Japan compiling basically everything as well as romhack translations of a few titles (although not the basketball game, unfortunately) that they could use as a reference:

http://nintendoeverything.com/kunio-kun-nekketsu-complete-famicom-compilation-coming-to-3ds/

thanks for making my decision easier! i can' tell from the list, but i hope the samurai version is in that comp

I hadn't even heard of the samurai Kunio, but from what I understand the collection is pretty comprehensive so if it came out on NES it should be on there

ok i checked and it IS on there. man i hope this comes out here

to the great surprise of nobody, Kirby: Planet Robobot is pretty great. I'm only a couple of worlds in, but so far it's at least as good as Triple Deluxe (which also rules).

From a few years back: http://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-emergent-heartbreak-of-tomodachi-life#

I played through the demo for Miitopia (the Tomodachi Life RPG) in one sitting; that game appears to be extremely my shit.

https://www.polygon.com/23024014/atlus-nintendo-3ds-sale-store

I already picked up Radiant Historia - haven't played any of these though. I'm surprised the SMT IV games haven't been ported to Switch already

I picked up a 3DS XL recently. Hacked it and have been dumping 3DS, DS, and GBA game on it. Lovely, fun little device.

I mostly just wanted it to play Dragon Quest 8, but there really is a wealth of other great stuff in those libraries to explore. I’ve kinda scoured the “best games for _____” lists, but if anyone has any good recs I’m all ears.

any preferred genres?

Not particularly. I picked up a bunch of Mario, Castlevania, and Metroid stuff, always a safe bet. Got some DQ games, Fire Emblem, Shin Megami Tensei 4, even some Pokémon. I suppose I should just take the time to just read through this thread too. Just curious if anyone had any in particular that stuck out for them.

OK some less obvious 3DS games off the top of my head:
Pocket Card Jockey - very addictive card based horse racing game, made by Pokemon people
Fantasy Life - Level 5 action RPG, has become a cult hit and a Switch sequel finally got announced recently
Ever Oasis - a Nintendo published action adventure game that somehow passed everyone by
NES Remix - kind of like a Warioware game that takes NES games and mashes them up for quick challenges
Attack of the Friday Monsters - really charming adventure game made by the "My Summer Vacation" guy. explore a small town in 1970s Japan as a kid, play card games, investigate giant kaiju footprints on the edge of town etc. makes you nostalgic for a childhood you never had.

could go on for hours about the incredible weirdness that can be found in the DS library, almost rivals the PS2 for the amount of creative madness that went on

i second the ^ pocket card jockey & attack of the friday monsters recs
assuming you have FBI running, it's pretty straight forward to find a QR for mother 3
kid icarus: uprising is good fun
sega arcade classics and things like 3d outrun are worth an install
inazuma eleven is a high school soccer rpg
dillon's dead heat breakers is a lot of things mixed together in a fun weird way
on the DS bangai-o spirits is something to behold, i mean again i'm repeating what zappi says but there's a ton of great DS games

I'm just finishing Devil survivor 2,both of those games are decent smt x tactics games, not mind blowing but solid

thanks all! will be checking all these out. it is kind of a crazy library, 3DS, DS, and GBA all together, figured there had to be plenty of off-the-beaten-track titles worth exploring.

not to derail but zappi, i'd love to hear your DS recommendations

I'll do one later! was thinking a lot last night about the DS library before falling asleep: playing stuff like Ouendan, Trauma Center, Layton etc for the first time and how amazing that was. also Bangai-O Spirits is a good shout, forgot about that one

also just checked and no one has done a translation patch for the Mushishi DS game ;_;