NINTENDO 3DS

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

― thank you based jättegod (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, January 19, 2011 6:11 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

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

too many problems with this to buy any time soon. gonna be interesting to see what sony announce about the psp2 next week though.

NA launch titles according to Defucktoid:

http://www.destructoid.com/3ds-north-american-launch-titles-192044.phtml

* Pilotwings Resort
* Nintendogs + Cats
* Steeldiver
* Dead or Alive
* Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D
* Madden NFL
* Super Street Fighter IV 3D
* Asphalt 3D
* Combat of Giants: Dinosaurs 3D
* Ridge Racer 3D
* Resident Evil: The Mercenaries
* LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars

Pilotwings and Steeldiver it is then.

Awful launch line-up.

yeah, surprisingly so given the initial announce.

c'mon, lego star wars in 3d will be pretty cool.

Traveller's Tales? It will be awful.

I wish I was 13 again*, and knew the rich kid in school who would buy this so I could play the shit out of it but not drop the ££s on it.

*I dont wish I was 13 again....but you get my point.

really? i'm pretty psyched for SFIV, Mercenaries (the bonus mode in RE4 was great!) and that Ghost Recon game being done by the XCom dude

does seem like it would be more prudent to see if they are good bundles during the holiday season, or just wait for the inevitable first revision

oh WOW did not know Ghost Recon was Nu-X-Com, guess that's happening day-one too.

yep, it's turn-based ^_^ probably won't have any overhead strategy though - none of Gallop's post-X-Com games have had base building, just the tactical portions. still very intriguing.

Confirmed day 1 list from gamasutra
Asphalt 3D (Ubisoft)
Bust-a-Move Universe (Square Enix)
Combat of Giants: Dinosaurs 3D (Ubisoft)
Crush 3D (Sega)
Dead or Alive Dimensions (Tecmo Koei)
Dual Pen Sport (Namco Bandai)
Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars (LucasArts)
Madden NFL Football (EA Sports)
Nintendogs & Cats (Nintendo)
Pilotwings Resort (Nintendo)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D (Konami)
Rabbids Travel in Time (Ubisoft)
Rayman 3D (Ubisoft)
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D (Capcom)
Ridge Racer 3D (Namco Bandai)
Samurai Warriors Chronicles (Tecmo Koei)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked (Atlus)
Steel Diver (Nintendo)
Super Street Fighter IV 3D (Capcom)
The Sims 3 (Electronic Arts)
Super Monkey Ball 3D (Sega)
Super Street Fighter IV 3D (Capcom)
Thor: God of Thunder (Sega)
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Shadow Wars (Ubisoft)
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell 3D (Ubisoft)

let me point out:
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked (Atlus)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked (Atlus)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked (Atlus)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked (Atlus)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked (Atlus)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked (Atlus)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked (Atlus)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked (Atlus)

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 ;_;