NINTENDO 3DS

i read somewhere that launch stock was 3 or 4 times that of DS or Wii. demand is not going to ramp up until they release some must-have software though - guess we'll have till xmas for that.
scanning QR codes is pretty neat!

scan my 68 Beatles, yo

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mine just showed up at the office! I just spent the last hour showing it off to some work folks, one of whom is going to Gamestop straight after work to get one, so I guess that's going to be this thing's viral trajectory rather than everyone going I WANT IT all at once.

fuccin AR shit is OUT OF THIS WORLD though. I was seriously not expecting it to be so impressive but the moment I realized you could walk around the target I damn near filled the cup. Face Raiders owns too; it is a monstrous amount of fun to run around shooting Jibjab-style floating versions of your own fat head. and they REALLY need to be working on an AR Pokemans Snap RIGHT NOW.

also the build is way more solid than the blue outer casing would have led me to believe; the analog pad in particular feels REALLY solid, like what I wish the PSP's felt like. loving the dashboard update too where you can actually go back to software (at least 3DS software, haven't tried a DS game yet) instead of hard-dropping out of whatever you're playing.

tl;dr: I was fully prepared to be a skeptic but as it turns out this thing owns immensely.

no Club Nintendo points for Ghost Recon tho :( I thought Nintendo was supposed to be going balls-out for third party publishers now?

Ridge Racer is butt ugly. Stay clear, Namco didn't get the memo that this can push more than PS1 polys. Disappointing because the 3D works well enough and it could've been a pretty and mindless arcade racer, perfect for launch. Gonna trade it back and wait for another racer to come along.

amazon just shipped mine!
they're doing $25 off one game and $35 off for two, which is basically buy one get one or get one for ten bucks.
Do i get pilotwings and sf4 for $40 or just sf4 for $10?

also, why did i buy the black?

Pilotwings and SF4. PW perfect between fighting sessions.

A walled garden only works when there is an actual garden within the walls.

The tv ads in the UK are soooo rubbish. "Numpty from Penge" sez "omg! it's like... 3d... and stuff..." and then gurns a bit? I know I know you can't really show the actual 3D really well, but unconvincing numpties in a white room looking a bit simple? I R not advert guru but...?!

I have taken about 100 pics of my Nintendog (Mrs Gale, she responds to Cathy!) and next is a fun game called 'figure out how to move them from 3ds to real world'.

The AR stuff is absolutely sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet, face raiders is terrifyingly good and will work even better in the pub. A personal highlight was putting a Zelda hat on Mrs Gale but then again give me that option and it's not like I'm NOT going to fall over howling in glee, is it...

I got Ridge Racer and PES2010 with mine. I'm really enjoying PES2010 now I've started a Champions League campaign.
The augmented reality stuff is so good. The potential seems vast.

Yesterday I walked around town for a couple of hours and managed to streetpass ONE person! Hurrah! StreetQuest is pretty brill as well - must go hang out with more nerds. Hmm is that London DS group still meeting up I wonder...

(I er, diverted by Forbidden Planet and walked around JUST IN CASE, presuming, you know - geeks?be shopping? 3ds?)

I have no idea WHERE I might have passed the streetpass person though. He is called Jacky and his favourite game is Ridge Racer...

I've met 10 people on Streetpass, I think almost all were at Victoria/Waterloo/King's Cross stations going by the times. My mii is well on the way to having more of a social life than me.

should be getting mine today! excited!

a social life or a 3ds?

The latter. Social life due to begin in June.

sez you, that's when Devil Survivor Overclocked and OoT are supposed to come out! if Paper Mario 3DS comes out in June too I may have to get a feeding tube installed.

Ghost Recon is REALLY good.

damn this thing is messing up my eyes
i have opinions and wanna share but need time to process

just ordered Pilotwangs for $5, thanx Amazon

so if you play 3DS for like 2 hours and then stare at a plant or your hand will it look 3D?

it looks fucking blurry is what it looks like.

the wow factor here is, for the moment, what you're paying for but WHAT a wow factor.

yeh i still need to go easy on the 3D, max 30 mins. definitely getting easier though.

I'm hoping that the March release is for fanboys and there will be a $50 price drop for November.

I haven't played the 3DS yet but I'm not too impressed with the launch games. The highest scores on metacritic are 85 and 77 (Street Fighter and Ghost Recon). Also, I don't care at all about a remake of Ocarina - been there, done that. And what's up with some of the launch games being dumbed down? I thought 3DS was the capable of pushing dynamic street fighter backgrounds. I've read that Lego Star Wars 3 was completely dumbed down for the 3DS. I was hoping that 3DS would be a good system for me to finally play a Lego game after enjoying the same game at a PS3 kiosk in GameStop. And they cut out multiplayer for the Lego game. Pshaw!

rating be damned, if you like turn-based strategy games Ghost Recon is a winner winner chicken dinner. it's pretty obviously an DS game fancied up with some subtle-but-cool 3D effects but the gameplay is tremendous; it reminds me of epic GI Joe battles back from when I was but a wee bairn.

w/r/t the launch lineup I'm good w/ just Ghost Recon & Pilotwings and then just gameflying the rest (besides, I have Radiant Historia and Monster Tale to play through anyway). if the release calendar for June is accurate then we're supposed to be getting OoT 3DS, Devil Survivor Overclocked, and Cave Story 3DS then so I should at least be good until then (not that I expect the latter two to come through on that schedule).

and the AR stuff really is a winner. not a killer app on the level of Wii Sports or anything but it's definitely software which makes you run around loudly demanding that other people play with it.

otm there; everyone in my office has tried this thing now

playd one at bestbuyand gave me a headache /:

so apparently the 3D Galaga/tilt-controlled Pac-Man (BLORF) is going to include Pac-Man CE (not DX, sadly) and Galaga Dimensions on the cart too! someone please force them to include a wireless (or even netplayable!) Pac-Man Vs so I can buy this goddamn game for the last time ever.

Geez, Steel Diver isn't going to be out here until May - *snoozes*.

Is this what it's like being an early adopter? What a fule I am! Oh well - I still love my Nintendogs, and have now streetpassed TWO people (must have got one at Euston station yesterday).

London ILx0rs! I want to meet YOU! Tell me of your commuting habits and I will stalk you :)

STILL haven't gotten one kerfungled streetpass hit yet ;_;

ditto

http://killscreendaily.com/articles/how-play-3ds-home-screen
^kinda right on. i haven't even PLAYED all the AR games yet but it's still a wonderful toy to carry around. i just haven't built a relationship with it yet

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh. Passed NINE people this evening, but as I checked them, showed my friend, then carried on my way, turns out I have lost ALL those Miis as heroes for streetpass. You need to use them as heroes IMMEDIATELY apparently.
(http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/997614-3ds/58735134).

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH THIS SUX. I didn't know this and now they're all gooooooone, ARGH.

*wailing*

" if you like turn-based strategy games Ghost Recon is a winner winner chicken dinner"

i don't like turn-based strategy games, but "winner winner chicken dinner" sounds fantastic.

what I now think of when I read Ghost Recon + 3D:

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Cave Story 3DS video footage released and in sharp contrast to the screenshots it doesn't look like a bag of smashed assholes (although of course the 2D pixel art will forever be the king)

Shop channel coming on 6/6/11 pretty much right in the middle of Sony's E3 keynote

also lol at this thread going dead for over a month like three weeks after the system launched

there's no fucking games!
i bought it, fucked around with it for a few days, got a lot of wow that's neat comments and it's been in the charger for maybe three weeks.
compared with my ipad which might as well be handcuffed to me; i woke up at four this morning with a jolt and realized i fell asleep with it next to me and had just knocked it off the bed

forks if you have ipad game recs, post em! I've been using mine like nuts for work stuff but haven't really gamed with it yet. (I know there's another thread for that, but here's the Batman rfi.)

an overgenerous grandmother got one of these for my son for his birthday, it's been a couple weeks and he plays his gameboy advance as much as this

it's fun but feels like you're staring at a magic eye after a while, doesn't lend itself to long sessions

my fave ipad game is stupid zombies

i have a weird eye thing and i can't totally do the 3d all the time, but the visual/sound/size upgrade over the 1st-gen ds i bought myself for CHRISTMAS 2004 is still worth it - i'm actually getting way more mileage out of the AR shit than i ever thought i would (viz. showing it to non-gamer coworkers, friends etc)

and friend codes? i'm 3179-6089-6783

free ipad game recs just now: dungeon raid, zarik, cut the rope lite (buy it if you enjoy it), 100 rogues, natlcapitls, stupid zombies, falling fred (good for a giggle), auditorium, mahjong free, hot springs story lite, spirits, paper train hd, frisbee

other suggestions?

tho tbf i'm not really gaming seriously with the pad yet; every game is a fun gimmick or a brief infatuation
i need to try infinity blade or one of the final fantasy games or starfront

and curious about this... only five bucks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRULsh4ZfOQ

- Puzzle Quest (at least the first one, haven't played 2) owns so hard on the iPad, it's actually my preferred version
- Carcassonne has a universal version and owns. there are a bunch of good board games for the iPad (although bizarrely Catan is not one of them); check out anything Reiner Knizia did for a good starting point
- I like the iPad versions of SimCity and Civ Rev a whole bunch; the extra real estate is totally worth it

Carcassonne has a universal version and owns

yeah ive played around w/ this & really like it. also the monopoly is p good #_#

ffIII is p tite if ur into rpgs id recommend it over the other two ios remakes

moar

- if you jailbreak you can get snes4iphone and use your Wiimote to play
- WESNOTH HD OWNS if you like srpgs
- Chinatown Wars is way better on the iPad than on the phone although not as good as on DS
- Dominion HD is a really good Risk clone w/ online multiplayer and everything

the update's here!

- free Excitebike 3D
- free Pokemansdex in 3D
- free system transfer thing
- no Link's Awakening GFY NINTENDO
- three bucks for the inferior Mario Land
- also some DSiWare game called PicDun which is apparently a RPG/Picross hybrid? intersting

how do i activate this update?