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3DS reserves start December 26th.
- Thread starter wwm0nkey
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I really don't think they can afford to be so clueless this time around. They know they've lost a lot of their fans with the Wii and they want them back. The Wii's online features were literally embarrassing as a company. When players encountered a game breaking glitch in Metroid Other M, Nintendo told them to put their save files on a SD card and mail them in so their save file could be edited. It's going to be 2011 when this thing comes out. You cannot release an entertainment device without decent networking tech anymore.Dabanton said:
Nintendo knows they can't support a system on their own. Despite the Wii's success, it drove away 3rd party developers. It couldn't support the modern engines that he 360, PS3, and PC could share. And online is huge this generation. But on the Wii it was cumbersome and most users didn't bother connecting their Wiis to the internet other to download Virtual Console games.
Nintendo's reveal at E3 showed their commitment to 3rd party support. They've mentioned how online is going to be improve. They've released videos of the store in action. They are showing commitment to improving the online to at least an acceptable level, because despite all the sales the 3DS will get at launch, if the PSP2 completely blows it out of the water in online services, dev support will wither.
friskykillface
Banned
:O Hyped!!!!!!!!!!!!! hopefully no need to camp to pre-order, i remember i had to do that for wii and PS3
good thing there's a gamestop 10 minutes from my house
i remember i sold a wii pre-order that was fully payed off for like $600-700 :lol :lol
in for 2, one to keep and play, one to sell to hopefully make enough to break even.
good thing there's a gamestop 10 minutes from my house
i remember i sold a wii pre-order that was fully payed off for like $600-700 :lol :lol
in for 2, one to keep and play, one to sell to hopefully make enough to break even.
glimmerman
Member
Keyser Soze said:
Thats because its going to take about a year before its released here in Ireland...
jeremy1456
Junior Member
Billychu said:
You're being a little dramatic. Online is important, but not so much that it can spell doom even in this day and age. Especially for a Nintendo handheld.
Deadly Monk
Banned
$50 deposit, $299 placeholder price, two colors. Zelda will be in the system too (meaning it will be in the computer to reserve).
Although I mentioned this in the other thread a while ago, the date also says March 27th.
Although I mentioned this in the other thread a while ago, the date also says March 27th.
MidnightScott
Banned
A month after Japan o.o They better not! The rest of the world got the Wii within a few days of eachother...Deadly Monk said:
Deadly Monk
Banned
asdad123 said:
48 hours, then we call. Usually, we'll hold it longer if you give us a date you can get it after the 48 hours.
outunderthestars
Banned
I think I'll be ordering it from amazon and paying for overnight delivery.
friskykillface
Banned
SS4Gogita said:
huh really, just checking around my Boston gamestops, there are some close by but i'm outside boston so i guess that's why.
even though this has no chance but for people taking sides on the price of $250 and $300, Nintendo should just do two separate skus/bundles.
Just the system at $250 and for the $300 one, add a game,3D movie, 1000 nintendo points and we are all set.
*runs away with flame shield* :lol
I'm still going to do what I always said I'll do.
I'll preorder mine at the games store I work at. I'll then get the consoles in a delivery obviously before the release (friday releases in the UK for games, so I'd get it in on the tuesday prior). That'll give me a chance to play on it loads before release.
I'll then simply stay on a extra two hours on the day before release until midnight, buy it, then go home.
Simple.
I'll preorder mine at the games store I work at. I'll then get the consoles in a delivery obviously before the release (friday releases in the UK for games, so I'd get it in on the tuesday prior). That'll give me a chance to play on it loads before release.
I'll then simply stay on a extra two hours on the day before release until midnight, buy it, then go home.
Simple.
Technosteve
Banned
300 dollars eh
jeremy1456
Junior Member
Technosteve said:
Deadly Monk said:
There, I made it easier to read.
That could perfectly well be the final price but it hasn't been confirmed either way.
demosthenes
Member
AniHawk said:
I knew a store manager at Target that got fired from the company for taking Wii's from the backroom for friends/family when they were impossible to find. (Probably wouldn't have been fired if it was his first offense, he had a real shady history w/ the company).
Will reserve @ $250, make it happen Nintendo.
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Deadly Monk said:
FFFFFFFFFF
MindCollizion
Member
Which 3D movie will the 3DS come packed in with? What would be the reaction if Avatar 3D was a pack-in?
DefectiveReject
Banned
Wasn't that a mistake? They are doing nothing more than private demos?GDGF said:
Deadly Monk
Banned
MindCollizion said:
Rumored to be How To Train Your Dragon but no one really knows. I wish it was region free but I'm not going to get started on that.
Anyway, I work the 26th so I will hopefully be reserve number one at the store I'm going to be at that day.
VegaShinra
Junior Member
A preorder on 3DS and Zelda seems to be the thing to do on the 26th. Def doing that. Nintendo better follow up with official details soon then.
MidnightScott
Banned
Guess I'll try to be first at the one close to my house on the 26th.
MrBelmontvedere
Member
I'm expecting the system to sell out @$300. even factoring in the handful of people who won't buy a portable for $300 "out of principle" :lol
PSP2 will be nothing but at best a few tech demos while this is selling out.
PSP2 will be nothing but at best a few tech demos while this is selling out.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
Damn serious question. I was going to go pre-order the 3DS last week and got too lazy but I have a question, can pre-orders run out? I'm starting to think I should stop procrastinating. I know it won't run out anytime really soon, but just asking if it's possible.
Deadly Monk
Banned
-Pyromaniac- said:
Most likely (in the US anyway), it will be just like the 360 reserve debacle. There probably won't be enough systems to fulfill every reserve the first day so they will go sell them to people in the order they were reserved under with each shipment.
When 360 came out, one store only got 10 of them day one so the first ten people who reserved them got them. Then they got two the next shipment so pre-orders number eleven and twelve got their systems and so on and so forth.
Technosteve
Banned
i don't want to get a second job for the 3DS, but this is nintendo and a handheld system.
electricpirate
Member
Hmm, I'm in Death Valley, then Vegas till past then. Hopefully there's a few orders left in brooklyn by the time I get back.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
Ah godamnit. Never pre-ordered a system before so I wasn't aware of that happening. Guess I should take my lazy ass there and do it.Deadly Monk said:
DidntKnowJack
Member
I'm not pre-ordering until I know the price.
Dreamwriter
Member
But they will not be showing a single thing, they are just getting a conference room in the back for private meetings.GDGF said:
Edit: Beaten!
-Pyromaniac-
Member
Yeah I'm only gonna pay the deposit anyway, I just know it will end up being 250 give or take 10 bucks and I hate overpaying at gamestop. They make me take store credit.DidntKnowJack said:
And if it is 300 in the end......homicide. And then buy it anyway.
Dreamwriter
Member
It's unknown if it'll come packed with any movie at all. But at E3 they had 3D trailers for How to Train Your Dragon, Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'hoole, and Disney's Tangled. I would put my money on one of those if any movie is packed with it.MindCollizion said:
But Avatar would make it sell tons, as the only way to see Avatar in 3D for now is to buy a $2000 Panasonic television set.
abstract alien
Member
I can not wait to give them however much they ask for. This wait is starting to hurt my insides. I hope it has an internal playtime clock that holds life time hours on it. I know I've took a chuck out of my soul when the ds is concerned, so 300+ is just nothing in comparison to the amount of time and experiences that will come with this device.
Again, what time are you guys opening that morning?
Again, what time are you guys opening that morning?
AceBandage said:
I'm assuming you mean the Japanese launch?
I'm sure we will know everything there is to know by the end of January or Mid February at the latest
Billychu said:
Nintendo's weak online was a result of two things
1. The first and most important is that they simply do NOT have the funds to run and maintain a competent free online service. The main reason the DS and Wii had shitty online services was because they were free. It takes money to operate Xbox Live and PSN. LOTS of it. Nintendo either doesn't have that kind of money or has it, but doesn't think it's worth it. This is also they reason why only a select few games (mostly 1st party) ever actually used the Wifi connection for something other than leader boards. This is also what caused the system to be seem as less competent when compared to the other players. Gamers want to go online. Developers want to take players online. Nintendo only went online b/c they finally felt the pressure of the times and even then it was terribly half assed.
2. Nintendo simply doesn't know how to create a decent online infrastructure. Their shop channel is TERRIBLY laid-out, and slow. It's archaic to say the least. MS has had years to figure out how to make it as easy and quick as possible for gamers to navigate, purchase, download and play games online. Sony has some pretty decent if basic layouts as well. Nintendo's online service on the other is simply a joke when compared to MS and Sony.
I just don't have any faith in Nintendo's future online service. They are never going to charge for it, and they will never see it as important enough to be as competent as Sony's or MS's services without having to pay out of their own pockets...which isn't going to happen. They will continue to lose out when comparing 3rd parties games b/c their version of the game either won't have online at all or it will be servery limited.
They just can't compete at this point and is basically why they always give their bullshit "Nintendo does things the Nintendo way" mantra.
Anasui Kishibe
Banned
Technosteve said:
that's the way, son
Shotgun Kiss
Member
Count me as another who works at a games store, and doesn't have to worry about getting hold of one. Plus, being able to buy it a few days early is always a plus.
As for price, I couldn't give a shit. Nintendo could charge whatever they wanted, and I'd still buy it. I've never looked forward to a system as much as I have the 3DS. The list of games we know of and are looking forward to is already comparable to a list of you could make for other existing systems well into/after their lifespan. Seriously, the thing isn't even out for another few months, and we already have the following games in the pipeline:
Mario Kart 3DS
Star Fox 64 3DS
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3DS
Metal Gear Solid 3DS
Paper Mario 3
Professor Layton 3DS
Professor Layton Vs. Phoenix Wright
Super Street Fighter 3DS
Nintendogs 3DS
Resident Evil Revelations
Resident Evil Mercenaries
Kingdom Hearts 3DS
Animal Crossing 3DS
Pilotwings Resort
Seriously, that's normally the kind of list I'd expect to make well into a system's lifespan when recommending it's top games to somebody. And those are just games that we've seen screenshots/videos of. It doesn't even count other stuff that's been announced/confirmed (like a new Mario game that Miyamoto confirmed, Shin Megami Tensei, Super Monkey Ball, etc). And there might be other games I forgot to put on that list.
I've already got $300 worth of value out of my DS, much less the 3DS.
As for price, I couldn't give a shit. Nintendo could charge whatever they wanted, and I'd still buy it. I've never looked forward to a system as much as I have the 3DS. The list of games we know of and are looking forward to is already comparable to a list of you could make for other existing systems well into/after their lifespan. Seriously, the thing isn't even out for another few months, and we already have the following games in the pipeline:
Mario Kart 3DS
Star Fox 64 3DS
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3DS
Metal Gear Solid 3DS
Paper Mario 3
Professor Layton 3DS
Professor Layton Vs. Phoenix Wright
Super Street Fighter 3DS
Nintendogs 3DS
Resident Evil Revelations
Resident Evil Mercenaries
Kingdom Hearts 3DS
Animal Crossing 3DS
Pilotwings Resort
Seriously, that's normally the kind of list I'd expect to make well into a system's lifespan when recommending it's top games to somebody. And those are just games that we've seen screenshots/videos of. It doesn't even count other stuff that's been announced/confirmed (like a new Mario game that Miyamoto confirmed, Shin Megami Tensei, Super Monkey Ball, etc). And there might be other games I forgot to put on that list.
I've already got $300 worth of value out of my DS, much less the 3DS.