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Nintendo's 3DS becomes even more awesome as further details are revealed at a press conference in Japan...
More details and a precise release date have been announced for Nintendo's 3DS at a press conference in Japan, with highlights including a dedicated Virtual Console facility for the handheld featuring classic Game Boy titles and an exact price-point for the console.
Despite previous rumours that the 3DS would arrive in Japan before the end of this year, Nintendo has instead decided to schedule releases in the East and West within a month of each other. The 3DS will launch in Japan on February 26th and then arrive in Europe and North America during March.
Nintendo also revealed a price tag of 25,000 yen for the console in Japan (roughly £190) and, while this isn't a precise indication of a price for the UK market, it does hold true with Nintendo's promises of the 3DS as a mass marketable product that will make 3D gaming affordable to a wider range of customers.
Other details from the conference included the reveal of a Virtual Console featuring classic Game Boy and Game Boy Advance titles for the 3DS. Nintendo's DS handhelds have lacked a Virtual Console offering in the past despite the service's presence on the Wii.
Nintendo went on to elaborate on the 3DS' previously detailed Tag Mode functionality, which essentially allows the console to communicate with other 3DS systems nearby even when it's in sleep mode.
A trailer of Capcom's Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition showed how Tag Mode is being used in a figurine mini-game. In the game, SSFIV figures assigned to each 3DS owner will duke it out without the user even knowing that the fight is going on (trailer below).
Miis will also be improved through the 3DS as gamers will be able to take pictures of themselves through the console's camera and convert the photo directly into a Mii. This Mii can then be saved as a QR code or onto an SD card (a 2GB SD card will come bundled with the console) and shared with other 3DS handhelds. Augmented reality was also demoed in a Nintendo trailer from the conference (see below).
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Added:Thu 08th Dec 2011 15:10, Post No: 48
@Post 47: I agree. Clearly he now works in more of an overseeing role at Nintendo, which is why it's great to hear that he wants to return to more personal projects. Some of his greatest innovations in gaming have come from influences in his personal life or childhood experiences - it would be great to see him drawing from that again.
Added:Thu 08th Dec 2011 13:54, Post No: 47
But what about his input designing and shaping Nintendo's hardware and overall strategies? I believe that's what he's referring to and no wonder Nintendo's PRs are trying to downplay the situation.
Added:Mon 28th Nov 2011 22:26, Post No: 46
[#@!?] sucks
Added:Wed 30th Mar 2011 16:55, Post No: 45
Couldnt believe how many times the 3DS crashes - usually Nintendo devices are pretty reliable...
Shame you cant just blow the dust out of the cartridge...
Added:Wed 30th Mar 2011 16:39, Post No: 44
Re-format your SD memory card. It fixed it for me :D
Added:Sun 27th Mar 2011 12:06, Post No: 43
COME TO BELFAST
Added:Sat 05th Mar 2011 12:18, Post No: 42
nintendo has nothing to worry about as for a handheld to play proper hand held games yu need buttons and thats just what the ipod/phone doesnt have (ever tried playing an FPS on the ipod/phone its the worst experience youll ever have) never mind graphics on a handheld graphcs never takes over its always gameplay hands down, nintendo knows what its doing the only way apple can compete with nintendo is if they add buttons to the ipod/phone and we know that just isnt going to happen.
Added:Thu 03rd Mar 2011 20:12, Post No: 41
i think the 3ds will be the most popular handheld in quite sometime i saw a video of the launch in japan and the store the reporters were in had WALLS of 3ds accessories and nintendo zone kiosks thats why its so popular there i hope nintendo considers putting the nintendo zones here in the us the only think that can ruin any good systems is accessabilityit has to be available and fully usable by the public i do believe nintendo has what it takes to compete with apple but their gonna have to up the anty that means blue tooth skype facebook android market get the hint they just need to stay on top of the tech trends and theyll be fine its not the piracy thats the issue it that nintendos systems usually use older technology which in retrospect leaves it slightly lacking but as a true nintendo fan i say NINTENDO 4 EVER!
Added:Mon 17th Jan 2011 14:14, Post No: 40
wow lol. i didn't even know a ds-vs-psp 'war' existed haha.
surely they're not comparable? they're two very different beats. maybe psp2 with its touch pad technology can be compared to it.
for ME. (notice i said me, meaning the following sentance isn't fact, merely my own opinion).
the psp2 having 2 analogue sticks gets me all excited that i might actually be able to play proper gamer games properly on it.
the DS, which i bought my son many years ago, is 99.9% absolutely rubbish games. with a handful (excuse the pun) of really really good ones.
the psp, has a wide selection of real games on it. it really really suffers from having just the one stick though, which psp2 remedies. so here's hoping it's all i've been hoping for.
and no doubt, i'll get a 3DS for my 11 year old, as that's clearly nintendos target judging by the games on DS.
Added:Wed 01st Sep 2010 10:08, Post No: 39
The DS had less power than the PSP, yet it outsold it easy, when the 3DS comes out (unless sony maniges to release a PSP2 in time which is unlikely) the PSP will be forgoten and kicked out of the handheld market