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Nintendo 3DS North American Launch
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I'm getting so hyped for this, even if battery life is a little bit of a bummer. I know I'm getting Pilotwings, but I'm wondering if I should just get it with SSF IV at TRU for 50% off, or if I should get something else. Why is everyone interested in Monkey Ball all of a sudden? And should I get Nintendogs? Hahaha.
GregLombardi
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Blue > Black!Fernando Rocker said:
The ONLY thing that has me wanting Nintendogs is the AR stuff....and that changed my mind today assuming what I heard was accurate.
ElectricBlanketFire
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I will give someone my 2010 platinum Club Nintendo award (still in the plastic wrap/box) and my Game & Watch replica for a 3DS.
Can't afford one right now. 
donkey show
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For reference:-Pyromaniac- said:
I'm pretty sure the JP boxes are the same as the US ones, unlike the DSLs back in the day.
Chairhome said:
It will make you believe in 3D.
Deadly Monk
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EvilMario said:
Don't want to cause a riot but most of the places in the East Coast have them in their back room. If not, tomorrow 100%. Oh and Nintendo's doing it again: No more systems shipped until mid to late April. Tight allocations all around. 8 to 12 systems shipped at a time.
-Pyromaniac-
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Wow so it's not that big at all, the game box looks almost half the size, lol.donkey show said:
Dreamwriter
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Keep in mind, mid-April is two weeks after launchDeadly Monk said:
donkey show
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Yup. I think the DSi's box was slightly bigger.-Pyromaniac- said:
And I wonder if we'll see more of these this weekend...
=P
plagiarize
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just to let people know. my local gamestop said today was the last day they were taking pre-orders for the blue model. dunno if that's just them or nation wide. black presumably could end soon too.
in other lol news, i am now the proud owner of Ridge Racer 3DS. i will use it as a paper weight for the next four and a half days after trying to put it in a regular DS.
in other lol news, i am now the proud owner of Ridge Racer 3DS. i will use it as a paper weight for the next four and a half days after trying to put it in a regular DS.
BY2K said:
See, I'm the opposite. For whatever reason, I own very few electronics that are black. I think the only black console/handheld I currently own is my N64. Because of this, I'm excited to get black! My DSi is blue already
So jealous of everyone who has managed to get it. I wish I knew of local mom and pop stores that sell video games
Edit: I lied...my PS3 and PS2 are also black
. Bah! I still don't have much black stuffplagiarize
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i'm kind of glad that i don't. i've already paid for Crysis 2. it should tide me over pretty nicely.Pyrokai said:See, I'm the opposite. For whatever reason, I own very few electronics that are black. I think the only black console/handheld I currently own is my N64. Because of this, I'm excited to get black! My DSi is blue already
So jealous of everyone who has managed to get it. I wish I knew of local mom and pop stores that sell video games
and i can play it in 3D on my tv, so i'm already part of the 3D future, just not the glasses free 3D future.
Deadly Monk
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Dreamwriter
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What sucks is those mom and pop stores are generally the ones that can least afford the thousands of dollars per system that Nintendo fines stores that break the street date.
Deadly Monk
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Bisnic said:
It's the same. Giant manual and guides to street pass etc.
FleaTheMagician
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Dreamwriter said:
Well then maybe they should stop breaking street date.
King Of Fuh
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I checked the OP, and skimmed through most of the four pages, so apologies if this has already been asked, but can you use the music player to play personal music while gaming, a la the 360 (which removes the original game soundtrack and keeps sfx in tact)?
Can you use the music player while doing anything else?
Can you use the music player while doing anything else?
Cheesemeister
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King Of Fuh said:
No.
Cheesemeister said:
bananaman1234
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King Of Fuh said:
It's up to specific games to utilize.
Dreamwriter
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It's not like the 360 where the music app is separate from the games, a game must support custom soundtracks, and when it does you'll use that game's interface for them. Which in my opinion is a lot better, it means a game can choose the best time to start/stop songs, and as a game developer if my game is an RPG or something, I want my mood-setting music to play, not whatever random song a gamer happens to be listening to. But I'm probably alone in that opinionKing Of Fuh said:
zero margin
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Just put in the preorder on amazon, cosmo black 3DS, SSFIV, chrono trigger, pokemon white, pull and go case, hori screen protector and the car charger.
plagiarize
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nice graphics, bad framerate, from gameloft.bryehn said:
get Ridge Racer 3DS
1) Nintendo doesn't fine stores.Dreamwriter said:
2) Violating Nintendo's street date policy greatly affects in-store promotions and future allocations. It has nothing to do with fines.
3) Typically Nintendo looks the other way for the mom and pop stores. No point in bringing down the hammer on Pa's Video Games when they'll sell 20 3DS units and maybe 100 3DS games over the next week, when Best Buy and gamestop won't care at all because each of those stores will go through 250 units and 500+ games.
The ma and pop stores are already be strangled in distribution and pricing compared to best buy and gamestop. The street dates are real, but it's in no ones best interest to enforce them on these stores. and no, they wouldn't be "fined." they would simply have allocation reduced and the ability for official in-store promotions reduced or eliminated.
This is what I don't really understand. The information is being pulled from somewhere. Either the friend's 3DS or from some central database (has to be you can do it over the internet). Why not simply have it as a request system? Just let the other person agree or disagree and the information is only added to the requesting 3DS if the other agrees.
I really hope they are able to change this.
Dreamwriter
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Do you work for Nintendo's legal department? There have been news stories in the past of Nintendo fining Walmart and Target for breaking street dates, and BestBuy employees told that Nintendo would fine their store $10,000 per system if they broke the street date for a new game system.borghe said:
Cheesemeister
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Effect said:
That'll never happen as long as Nintendo fears the day a pedophile is reported to have contacted a victim via a Nintendo-manufactured system.
plagiarize
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it's a philosophical decision, not a technical one. they don't want people to 'friend' anyone that don't already know in real life to cover their asses from the types of stories like 'Nintendo DS Child Predators' that dog them even when they're doing everything they possibly could to avoid them.Effect said:
at least when those stories crop up now, they can point to all the restrictions they have in place and say 'nu-uh'. i'd rather it wasn't the case, but the media go after Nintendo on this stuff much harder than MS and Sony because the perception is still that Nintendo = for kids.
out dated and annoying yes, but that's why things are the way they are.
DownWithTheShip
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Is anything known about The Sims 3?
It seems to have the potential to be good, but I haven't seen or heard anything about it.
It seems to have the potential to be good, but I haven't seen or heard anything about it.
GregLombardi
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Yeah I switched to Ghost Recon for the same reason, but now Amir0x has me questioning if I should get Rayman since I never played the original. GRRRR.GDGF said:
-Pyromaniac-
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Rayman 2 is a damn classic.GregLombardi said:
Dreamwriter
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It's a port of the console versions of Sims 3, and has some really horrid framerate issues even in Nintendo's recent promo video of all the launch titles.DownWithTheShip said:
plagiarize said:
True there is this to consider. Annoying for sure though.
Dreamwriter said:
The frame rate issues are easy to spot to. I was sort of surprised by that. I figured they'd provide footage that showed it in better light but it's obvious there are problems with it. Same with Asphalt GT. You can see the slow down in the video.
plagiarize
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$250 isn't many tricks. you could make that in one night, easy.Tiktaalik said:
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