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Nintendo of Japan has just announced their next handheld unit, tentatively named the "Nintendo 3DS." The portable platform will offer 3D gaming without the need for 3D glasses, and will be backwards compatible with DS and DSi games. The "Nintendo 3DS" is the successor to the Nintendo DS series and will be on display at this year's E3. We can expect the "Nintendo 3DS" to launch in Japan by the end of the fiscal year, which means that we'll see it somewhere between E3 2010 (in June) and March 2011.

 

3D is the next major step in gaming, but the only thing that's really holding it back is the need for 3D glasses. Nintendo seems to have gotten around that peripheral limitation with their new portable and it will be interesting to see just how Nintendo pulls this off at E3.

 

Some TL;DR facts:

 

- The screensize will be 4.0 inches. (The DSi XL was 4.2 inches)

- The graphics will (apparently) be better than the Nintendo Wii

- 3D in the 3DS is optional, you can turn it off with a switch to the right of the top screen

- The 3DS games have better piracy protection (fffuuu)

- Top screen will be a 3D 16:9 widescreen, bottom screen a 2D 4:3.

- Battery will be better than in the normal DS

- It's possible to take 3D photo's with the 3DS

- Possible to install software on the 3DS (So you don't have to take extra cartridges)

- Will be released in March 2011 - Not fully confirmed yet

- Nintendo is losing some money right now, cause they're stocking on 3DSes

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Some games that I personally collected from websites where they announced them:

 

- Pokemon Black & White - Video 1

- Legends of Zelda : Ocarina of Time - Screenshot 1 - 2 - 3 - Video

- Paper Mario - Screenshot 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

- Mario Kart - Screenshot 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6

- Animal Crossing - Screenshot 1 - 2

- Kid Icarus: Uprising

- Nintendogs & Cats

- Saints Row

- Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater - Video

- DJ Hero 3D

- Cubic Ninja

- Etrian Odyssey

- Shin Megami Tensei

- Shin Megami Tensei: Persona

- Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor

- Resident Evil Revelations - Video

- Super Street Fighter IV 3D - Screenshot - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

- FIFA Soccer

- Madden NFL

- The Sims 3 - Screenshot 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

- Asphalt GT

- Bomberman

- Deca Sports

- Kororinpa

- Baseball

- Contra

- Frogger

- Pro Evolution Soccer

- Winning Eleven

- BloodRayne: The Shroud

- A Boy and His Blob

- Face Racers: Photo Finish

- Lion's Pride: Adventures on the Serengeti

- Martha Stewart

- WonderWorld Amusement Park

- Dragon Ball Z

- Gundam

- Pac Man & Galaga

- Ridge Racer - Screenshot 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

- Super Robot

- PilotWings Resort - Screenshot 1

- Star Fox 64 3D - Screenshot 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5

- Steel Diver - Screenshot 1 - 2 - 3 - 4

- ROCKET

- Crash-City GP

- VS-robo

- Sonic

- Super Monkey Ball

- Chocobo Racing 3D

- Dragon Quest

- Final Fantasy

- Kingdom Hearts 3DS - Screenshot 1 - 2 - 3

- Dead or Alive 3D - Screenshot 1 - 2 - 3

- Dynasty Warriors

- Ninja Gaiden

- Samurai Warriors 3D - Screenshot 1 - 2 - 3

- Naruto Shippuden Action

- Blob 2

- Kung Fu Panda Kaboom of Doom

- Marvel Super Hero Squad Infinity Gauntlet

- The Penguins of Madagascar

- Puss N Boots

- Saints Row: Drive-By

- Assassin's Creed Lost Legacy

- Battle of Giants: Dinosaur Strike

- Driver Renegade

- Hollywood 61 (name not final)

- Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

- Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Chaos Theory

- Batman

- Lego

- Castlevania (possibly)

- Harvest Moon

- GoldenEye

 

 

 

A blog that updates almost daily with information about the Nintendo 3DS (there's way and way more info on that than I posted here)

 

Personally looking forward to it. Expecially the Ocarina of Time game. Used to be one of my favourites.

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Looks pretty awesome. If half of those games are lauch titles, i'll be buying one day 1.

 

It needs more original titles though, from what i ahve seen it has mostly remakes (not a bad thing).

 

Small correction: Pokemon black and white are for the DS, not 3ds

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Looks pretty awesome. If half of those games are lauch titles, i'll be buying one day 1.

 

It needs more original titles though, from what i ahve seen it has mostly remakes (not a bad thing).

 

Small correction: Pokemon black and white are for the DS, not 3ds

The titles aren't fully confirmed I think, most of them are their working titles.

Pokemon Black & White will be for the 3DS aswell :P

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My main curiosity are on what two of the Shin Megami Tensei titles are. No idea which Persona they'd release, could be a new one, or a remake of an old one. And the one that's just titled SMT, Atlus did register a trademark for Devil Hunter, so who knows that they're going to attempt.

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Looks pretty awesome. If half of those games are lauch titles, i'll be buying one day 1.

 

It needs more original titles though, from what i ahve seen it has mostly remakes (not a bad thing).

 

Small correction: Pokemon black and white are for the DS, not 3ds

The titles aren't fully confirmed I think, most of them are their working titles.

Pokemon Black & White will be for the 3DS aswell :P

 

No offence, but either list a source or i don't elieve, i've been following that game from almost day 1 and no reference to 3DS title.

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Better graphics than the Wii? Pretty sure Sony said the same thing about the PSP being as powerful as the PS2 or something. That turned out to be BS and this statement probably will be as well. The reason I wouldn't buy this straight away is that the DS has gone through so many hardware revisions that there would probably be a "3DS slim" or something out within 18 months.

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Looks pretty awesome. If half of those games are lauch titles, i'll be buying one day 1.

 

It needs more original titles though, from what i ahve seen it has mostly remakes (not a bad thing).

 

Small correction: Pokemon black and white are for the DS, not 3ds

The titles aren't fully confirmed I think, most of them are their working titles.

Pokemon Black & White will be for the 3DS aswell :P

 

No offence, but either list a source or i don't elieve, i've been following that game from almost day 1 and no reference to 3DS title.

 

I saw a vid somewhere that showed a city, wich was clearly meant to be in 3D. I'll try to find it again.

 

EDIT: It was about 3D environments, my mistake.

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If I can't play any of these games on my DSlite I will be very mad. I'm not buying into these damn gimmicks, I have no money.

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I'm pretty sure that alot of game producers have said that there games are piracy proof or have protection and people still manage to get round it. Sounds awesome.

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It's RRRRRRIDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE RAAAAAAAACEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

 

If I can't play any of these games on my DSlite I will be very mad. I'm not buying into these damn gimmicks, I have no money.

 

This is a new handheld, not a new itteration of the DS. Its what Game Boy Advance was to the Game Boy colour. And if you think#d is a gimmick, just turn it off :thumbup:

 

 

And from what i read, the only thing it has better than the wii is the processor.

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Looks pretty awesome. If half of those games are lauch titles, i'll be buying one day 1.

 

It needs more original titles though, from what i ahve seen it has mostly remakes (not a bad thing).

 

Small correction: Pokemon black and white are for the DS, not 3ds

The titles aren't fully confirmed I think, most of them are their working titles.

Pokemon Black & White will be for the 3DS aswell :P

 

No offence, but either list a source or i don't elieve, i've been following that game from almost day 1 and no reference to 3DS title.

 

Not sure myself either now lol when I think about it. Just saw they're releasing Black and White on the 18th of September. I've heard that from alot of other people. When I look at the pictures it kind of looks 3D aswell. We'll see lulz

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Looks pretty awesome. If half of those games are lauch titles, i'll be buying one day 1.

 

It needs more original titles though, from what i ahve seen it has mostly remakes (not a bad thing).

 

Small correction: Pokemon black and white are for the DS, not 3ds

The titles aren't fully confirmed I think, most of them are their working titles.

Pokemon Black & White will be for the 3DS aswell :P

 

No offence, but either list a source or i don't elieve, i've been following that game from almost day 1 and no reference to 3DS title.

 

Not sure myself either now lol when I think about it. Just saw they're releasing Black and White on the 18th of September. I've heard that from alot of other people. When I look at the pictures it kind of looks 3D aswell. We'll see lulz

 

I'm pretty sure that alot of game producers have said that there games are piracy proof or have protection and people still manage to get round it. Sounds awesome.

Don't think theres anything that hasn't been cracked yet loll

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Looks pretty awesome. If half of those games are lauch titles, i'll be buying one day 1.

 

It needs more original titles though, from what i ahve seen it has mostly remakes (not a bad thing).

 

Small correction: Pokemon black and white are for the DS, not 3ds

The titles aren't fully confirmed I think, most of them are their working titles.

Pokemon Black & White will be for the 3DS aswell :P

 

No offence, but either list a source or i don't elieve, i've been following that game from almost day 1 and no reference to 3DS title.

 

Not sure myself either now lol when I think about it. Just saw they're releasing Black and White on the 18th of September. I've heard that from alot of other people. When I look at the pictures it kind of looks 3D aswell. We'll see lulz

 

I'm pretty sure that alot of game producers have said that there games are piracy proof or have protection and people still manage to get round it. Sounds awesome.

Don't think theres anything that hasn't been cracked yet loll

 

Closest to "uncracked" would be the PS3 and the newer PSP models. Those things are complex and I'm not sure where the crackers went. The PS3 is just ridiculously complex.

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My younger sister brought the DS Lite, now she'll be bugging my parents for this console. :rolleyes: Looks cool though. :thumbsup:

 

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Not thrilled that they've announced this so soon after releasing the DSi, which I've got. So I'm hoping it doesn't come out soon. Either way, I will not be buying it until they stop making DS games and I can't buy them anywhere, 3D is a dumb thing to buy a new console for.

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Not thrilled that they've announced this so soon after releasing the DSi, which I've got. So I'm hoping it doesn't come out soon. Either way, I will not be buying it until they stop making DS games and I can't buy them anywhere, 3D is a dumb thing to buy a new console for.

 

Again, the 3D isn't everything to it. It's a whole new hardware with new games and backward compatible with the DS games.

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Not thrilled that they've announced this so soon after releasing the DSi, which I've got. So I'm hoping it doesn't come out soon. Either way, I will not be buying it until they stop making DS games and I can't buy them anywhere, 3D is a dumb thing to buy a new console for.

I haven't bought a new DS since my launch week silver brick of a console I bought years ago. To me, all of the improvements on all these new DSi's were all dumb things to buy a new console for. But hot damn, the 3DS looks awesome and I'm definitely going to be getting it. I generally hate 3D as well, but the fact that they've managed to make it work without glasses is awesome for me. Glasses are what keep me from liking 3D in the first place :lol:

 

And a new Paper Mario and Ocarina of Time remade, how can you not want that?! O.O

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True, new Paper Mario would own, but I doubt I'll be able to play it on my DSi.

 

Tbh, the only reason I bought the DSi was because I wanted a DS, and I had the money for the DSi, and its features sounded useful, especially since my phone's crap (ie wifi hotspots and random looking up of things is semi-useful).

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My younger sister brought the DS Lite, now she'll be bugging my parents for this console. :rolleyes: Looks cool though. :thumbsup:

 

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Yeah, which is dumb because I bought the DSi hoping it would be the 'new' hardware for a while. A year and a half/two years is not 'a while', the 3DS is supposed to be out Q1 of 2011...

 

AKA I hate it when people do this, unless it's brought on by themselves (ie Vista to 7 and stuff like that; Vista sucked so they made it better and sold it as 7 quickly)

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I've still got my old DS lol. Says Nintendo 2004© on the back, even though it was originally released in 2005..

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I don't regret buying the DSi though, it was totally worth it. I just wonder if it's worth it to sell it and buy a 3DS when they come out. And what will come of the DSi Shop and all that.

 

Clever Idea: Since you link your Club Nintendo account when you enter the Shop for the first time, they know what you've downloaded and for how much. Why not allow a forced hard drive wipe, with the allowance that when you register a new DS model, you can redownload everything you've already (that was lost when you cleared the memory) downloaded, once per new hardware. I know they didn't allow this with the XL, but I'd hope they would with the 3DS, it'd get a lot more people to buy one.

 

If you're still making money off X, why put Y out there? I honestly wonder sometimes. What's the point of the XL, so soon after the DSi itself? Do I just want nostalgia where everything that's cool didn't change every three months? Where you could buy a GBA and it would still be the big Nintendo handheld, and could play tons of games.

 

Well, if this makes DS games obs- oh wait they're backward compatible. Nintendo didn't even leave me the 'cheap DS games' outlet.

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