I'd bet most prospective 3DS shoppers don't even know about Face Raiders etc. (it's certainly not being demoed at Best Buy/Gamestop). I can't help but agree that the "out of the box" playability did help the Wii a lot, people were able to play it and try it much more easily than say, this Xbox 360 I just got which came with one controller and a 15 minute demo of Modern Warfare 2.
The original DS had a pretty boring line-up too, but it had no competition for those 6 months or so it took to get some decent games out.
The retail strategy thing seems loaded with assumptions. It was the system price that stopped me from buying one at launch (the game prices didn't help). If they had launched at $180, they'd already have my money. Now that Vita is on the way and I need a new iPod Touch, I don't even know if I'll bother at this price.
Does make me wonder though - did Carnival Games sell better than Super Mario Galaxy?
― Nhex, Saturday, 30 July 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
did Carnival Games sell better than Super Mario Galaxy?
in other news, Wal-Mart is apparently going to start selling the 3DS at the new price starting on the 9th, which gives you a few days to snag one for cheap AND register so's you can get 20 ROMs. Devil Survivor Overclocked is supposed to be out later this month too, although its release date has been bumped like three times already so who knows.
― http://soundcloud.com/dubstep/dubstep-believe-it (jamescobo), Friday, 5 August 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
oh and Paper Mario 3D still doesn't have a release date :( :( :( if this game doesn't come out I am going to stab EVERYONE.
― http://soundcloud.com/dubstep/dubstep-believe-it (jamescobo), Friday, 5 August 2011 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
there's been some talk that the NES games aren't going to be straight ROM dumps, as Nintendo have indicated that multiplayer & other features will be added at some future point. who knows, doubt they know what they are doing at this point.
― zappi, Friday, 5 August 2011 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
if they're still going to give away DLs of Four Swords Adventure like they said at E3, I sure hope that mindset carries over and they add internet multiplayer.
also my favorite sub-topic to emerge from this whole 20-free-games thing is all the vidya game dorks on SA & GAF going GUYS WHAT IF MOTHER 3 WAS ONE OF THE GAMES THEY GAVE AWAY
― http://soundcloud.com/dubstep/dubstep-believe-it (jamescobo), Friday, 5 August 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
hahaha no
― Nhex, Friday, 5 August 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
Would be good though...
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Friday, 5 August 2011 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
all would be forgiven
― I'm a nerd and nerdy things happened (forksclovetofu), Friday, 5 August 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
With all these nice price drops, etc, I picked one up from Morrison's yesterday for £120, which seems good (though I think Amazon were doing them for £115 yesterday). Got Ghost Recon, which is cool and was pretty blown away by the AR mini games. Haven't turned 3D down from Full so far.
― CraigG, Saturday, 13 August 2011 08:53 (twelve years ago) link
http://h5.abload.de/img/untitledv84d.png
it is:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12082922/games/69799455.jpg
― the tingly effervesence of a thousand tiny butterfly farts (jamescobo), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 05:13 (twelve years ago) link
Have been playing Ocarina of Time 3D and have to say that the UI rewrite is outstanding. I remember being annoyed by the menu system in OoT last time I went back to it (playing it on the gamecube), but this is great. It's also now been sufficiently long since I played it last, let alone completed it last, that I'm really enjoying it.
Got SFIV on the way, then I think it's really only Steel Diver (kinda) and Pilotwings that I'm interested in until some more stuff drops, Cave Story 3D in particular, as long as they don't charge silly money.
― CraigG, Thursday, 18 August 2011 15:10 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_ecesGCI3U
ok this looks pretty rad
― unique housing opportunity (swanbed.gif) (govern yourself accordingly), Thursday, 18 August 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
xpost despite the license, Ghost Recon Shadow Wars is easily the best non-OoT 3DS game; it's like having a portable X-Com. I think it's cheap now that everyone's frantically trying to get rid of all their 3DS stock.
― the tingly effervesence of a thousand tiny butterfly farts (jamescobo), Thursday, 18 August 2011 17:01 (twelve years ago) link
can't stop playing Aura Aura Climber. has that 'just one more go' thing, especially the endless mode.
― zappi, Thursday, 18 August 2011 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
holy fuck, my copy of Devil Survivor Overclocked just showed up! guess that means there are THREE 3DS games worth owning now.
― punk rock hyrax (jamescobo), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently no plans to release Devil Survivor over here in Europe :(
― CraigG, Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
boy they really fucked this up six ways to sunday didn't they
― dozens, maybe even hundreds, of vagina related screen names (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 August 2011 18:45 (twelve years ago) link
First batch of free games just went up. This is what happens:
- you read the notification that tells you how to download the games- you have to write down or memorise the instructions which are (I might have the names wrong but I don't care):
1. open the eshop2. tap "settings / other" in the menu thing3. open "titles you've downloaded"4. keep tapping down until you get to the first free game5. tap "re-download"6. download the game7. the system takes you back to step 2 and you have to do THE WHOLE THING 10 MORE TIMES
Right at the very bottom of the free games there's a thing called "Nintendo 3DS Ambassador Certificate". It's five times bigger than any of the games because it's a video. This is what's in the video: four minutes of SIDE-SCROLLING TEXT, with REALLY BAD CHEAP MUZAK, that tells you HOW TO DOWNLOAD ALL THE GAMES YOU HAVE JUST DOWNLOADED. It's four minutes because after 30 seconds IT DOES IT ALL AGAIN IN LIKE FIFTY DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
I hope a hoos reads and enjoys this because it is seriously THE STUPIDEST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN, EVER, including PT Cruisers and wars.
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 1 September 2011 09:38 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for posting that - had no message or anything to tell me that the games have arrived but went through that method and they're all there!
― if, Thursday, 1 September 2011 09:45 (twelve years ago) link
On a non-Ambassador tip, anyone know/able to find anything more exact than "September" for when Four Swords will be available for free? I can only find the vague month-long timeline.
― CraigG, Thursday, 1 September 2011 10:44 (twelve years ago) link
took me longer to rearrange my home page icons than downloading the games themselvesfolders plz
― zappi, Thursday, 1 September 2011 11:10 (twelve years ago) link
wow.
― In the long run, we will all be cyberpunks (Z S), Thursday, 1 September 2011 11:55 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, wow.
― Reddit Me Bro (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
it's SIDE-SCROLLING?
― In the long run, we will all be cyberpunks (Z S), Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:04 (twelve years ago) link
is it in 3d
― just sayin, Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:11 (twelve years ago) link
it doesn't tell you how to to download all the games you downloadedit tells you to touch the button in the bottom screen if you want to receive push notifications of future ambassador updates
― zappi, Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
for 4 minutes with bad muzak
― zappi, Thursday, 1 September 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
extraordinary
― Autumn Almanac, Thursday, 1 September 2011 20:47 (twelve years ago) link
I ran all the way back to this thread (ilx in general!) in flapping excitement as I see there is a 999: 9 hours, 9 persons 9 doors sequel coming to the 3DS!
trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAqGs441qzU
gubbins: http://www.forums.court-records.net/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=20675&sid=a5f2303d642903c9509ec1965ded92ab
I knooooow that 999 was a game where you essentially made four choices and played some slightly rub puzzles (and saved the world with a sudoku hurrah!), but I flipping loved the story with all its ridiculous twists, and it was full of excellent jokes so A+ on the old localisation thing. I hope it will be the same with the localisation for the sequel! Which will happen! And I will look forward to playing! Heck yes! (etc etc will that do, please localise it o decision makers).
No idea where the Phoenix Wright/Layton game is (my 3ds is sitting at home whilst I am playing pokemon emerald on a DS phat - games?! please?!). Oh, I lie, I play Mario Picross on it...
― superpitching, Friday, 9 September 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
Robot rabbit and more gratuitously dressed laaaydeez doesn't look massively great but hey anime tropes/schanime tropes, I'll still play it...
"yellow globules of fat dripping down the walls" etc etb blergh. Hurrah!
― superpitching, Friday, 9 September 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
yeah 999 was... not well executed, to say the least
― Lamp, Friday, 9 September 2011 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://news.punchjump.com/2011/09/08/nintendo-3ds-right-analog-stick-expansion-device-detailed/
SIGH
― punk rock hyrax (jamescobo), Friday, 9 September 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
seriously, fuck this device. What a disaster for nintendo
― thank got forks showed up (forksclovetofu), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
I take it you're not going to buy the revision with the second nub built in?
― punk rock hyrax (jamescobo), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
waiting till the 13th before i throw my toys out of the pram
― zappi, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
as long as Paper Mario 3D still exists as a possibility, my 3DS isn't going anywhere
― punk rock hyrax (jamescobo), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
aesthetically, what a giant piece of shit!
http://timenerdworld.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/famitsu-3ds-analog-joystick.jpg
― remember yr man when he's at wooooooooooork (Z S), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:38 (twelve years ago) link
Still just a rumour, yeah? Could be a Monster Hunter peripheral.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 9 September 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
I like how against all odds they keep finding ways to make the ergonomics of this system even worse. also it's kinda weird how the right-side nub is so much smaller than the main one.
― punk rock hyrax (jamescobo), Friday, 9 September 2011 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently the expansion cradle thing also has an R1 trigger, and an R2 trigger, and an L2 trigger...but no L1! At least until they release an expansion for the expansion.
― JimD, Friday, 9 September 2011 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
'Bravely Default: Flying Fairy' is Squares greatest game title yet. How do they come up with them??
― zappi, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 09:43 (twelve years ago) link
"I like how against all odds they keep finding ways to make the ergonomics of this system even worse"
Dunno about that - think this added width and grip would improve prolonged stick gameplay.
Excited about Monster Hunters - both Tri G and the new 4, which seems to take new directions with more open geography. Finally some great mario land footage as well.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 10:35 (twelve years ago) link
That analogue bolt-on was confirmed. By Nintendo. As a first-party peripheral. I don't even.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 10:38 (twelve years ago) link
Thankfully. Launching it with a single stick was laughable. Now any genre can conceivably be played with optimal controls.
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 10:43 (twelve years ago) link
I like the idea of a 2nd stick - still slightly baffled how they could miss the last ~7 years of people saying how shit it was that the PSP had only one analog stick yet think that was OK, but it'll be a welcome addition I'm sure, giving better flexibility as to what games could be put on the system. Can't say I care for the aesthetic, but I also don't care about the aesthetic that much either, especially if it makes the DS more comfortable. Can't believe how much the swap from DS Phat to 3DS is crippling my mitts.
In other news, "Four Swords coming in September" apparently means 28th of September. Jerks.
― CraigG, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 12:24 (twelve years ago) link
lots of good games next year. in Japan :/
― zappi, Tuesday, 13 September 2011 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
apparently Devil Survivor 3DS is pretty hard to find (according to GAF Atlus printed even fewer copies than usual since the 3DS' install base is, well, yeah), so buy the fuq out of it if you see it in the wild
― punk rock hyrax (jamescobo), Tuesday, 13 September 2011 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.engadget.com/photos/nintendo-3ds-extended-slide-pad-add-on-first-hands-on/#4450936
in other news, the 3DS Fire Emblem game looks sick and I really hope the Final Fantasy EBA ripoff makes it stateside.
― punk rock hyrax (jamescobo), Thursday, 15 September 2011 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
really intrigued by this game, some sort of 1st person Ico/RPG/dungeon crawler apparently? no gameplay footage yet though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XShi9CxSfc
― zappi, Thursday, 15 September 2011 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
Aliens: Infestation looks like a must-get:
http://www.gamesradar.com/aliens-infestation-hands-preview/
between this, Kirby Mass Effect, and Solatorobo (this will either be a bunch of fun or a bunch of disquieting furry nonsense) there's a whole bunch of DS stuff coming out I need to play
― punk rock hyrax (jamescobo), Sunday, 18 September 2011 23:37 (twelve years ago) link