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3DS Retail Deals
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Fox Mulder
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The original DS was bought by many people that only wanted 15 minutes of entertainment here or there, and they are probably fine with smartphone gaming now.
I'm kind of interested in a 3ds, especially at these new prices, but it's no secret why it will be hard for this handheld to ever match the numbers of the DS.
In person, the pink 3DS actually looks really nice. I'm typically far more a fan of baby/pastel pink (I wish the true color was more like how it looks in my photo below), but it's really grown on me—and the black offers a nice bit of contrast. If it were all pink, I think it'd look uglier.
Since I have no interest in Mario Kart I'm glad I jumped on the $180 3DS XL deal at Best Buy two weeks ago.
Much like with the Vita, the 'lack of games' argument for the 3DS really does not seem to hold a lot of water to me.
Mario Games
NSMB2
Mario Land 3D
Mario Kart
Paper Mario
Mario Tennis
Other Nintendo Games
Zelda: OoT 3D
Star Fox 64
Kid Icarus
Professor Layton
Big 3rd Party Franchises/Fanboy Games
Resident Evil
Metal Gear Solid
Tales RPG
Shin Megami Tensei
Kingdom Hearts
Plus other niche titles or smaller series that will elicit strong responses from certain circles (see: Zero Escape).
Sure, there could be even more, but the system has been out for a year and a half at this point roughly. I think it has done a great job providing titles from its core franchises, resurrecting old ones and bringing in some reliable third party support, all while the system initially struggled to get off the ground and begin building a solid userbase.
Mario Games
NSMB2
Mario Land 3D
Mario Kart
Paper Mario
Mario Tennis
Other Nintendo Games
Zelda: OoT 3D
Star Fox 64
Kid Icarus
Professor Layton
Big 3rd Party Franchises/Fanboy Games
Resident Evil
Metal Gear Solid
Tales RPG
Shin Megami Tensei
Kingdom Hearts
Plus other niche titles or smaller series that will elicit strong responses from certain circles (see: Zero Escape).
Sure, there could be even more, but the system has been out for a year and a half at this point roughly. I think it has done a great job providing titles from its core franchises, resurrecting old ones and bringing in some reliable third party support, all while the system initially struggled to get off the ground and begin building a solid userbase.
CosmicQueso
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On a time aligned basis the 3DS is one million units ahead of the NDS in hardware sales. So the 3DS is not only matching the numbers of NDS, it's blowing them away.
Hardware isn't the problem. It's software pricing and attach rates. People aren't buying as many games for their 3DS' as they did their NDS'. Maybe it's because the games are $10 higher priced, maybe the types of games being offered aren't what people want. Maybe a lot of things. But it's not just smartphone games.
The 3DS more than any other Nintendo handheld is pretty much for Nintendo fans only. There were dozens and dozens of great third party DS and GBA games. With the 3DS, I just find myself looking forward to the first party games almost exclusively.
There were dozens and dozens released within the first year or so of their hardware cycle?
Also, consideration has to be given that devs will wait for the userbase to build, especially in a handheld market that is being attacked by mobile phone gaming. Previous ones did not have to combat that early on in their cycles, or even at all in the case of the GBA. Despite that, several big name franchises have appeared already on the 3DS.
My pink DSlite isn't ugly! The metallic rose DSi XL looks so nice to ~_~ Might just be me but all the 3DS colors look jarringly bad with the black upper inside screen aside from the black one obviously. Blech!
Going by the list above that seems ta be the case. I'm not really a nintendo fan neither. None of what Yanksfan posted is of any interest to me besides MGS3... which I already have for PS2. I dunno if I'll even pick up any games with the system if I do get one next week. Would prolly get Harvest Moon but certainly not for $40! Going by screenshots its barely above Animal Crossing DS's graphics, an so not on par with the Gamecube HM's. Didn't 3rd parties learn from the PSP that $40 handheld games don't work?
Give me a break. Ridiculous. Check the 3DS games already released and upcoming.
I've got the rose DS Like, but I'm not a huge fan of it. I just don't like the single-tone color to handhelds. I loved the original pink+white DS Phat, and I'm glad that Nintendo went back to that idea with the 3DS XL.
And not to disparage your DS Lite and your enjoy of it, but it's just a color that I'm not a huge fan of. To be fair, though, it's way, way better than the pink DSi was, and some other pink colors out there.
This type of thinking is shortsighted at best. Of course you should care about the health of the company that makes your stuff. If they go out of business you have nothing to buy and your life is worse off for it. Of course, if you're not really a gamer I can understand this type of thinking. But even non gamers have their favorite things that they don't want to see disappear from the market, so...
IHaveCandy
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Vita needs to go $199.
Ugh, kids have really bad taste in games then these days =/.
famousmortimer
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Yeah except nintendo isn't going out of business and if they were worrying about it on a message board wouldn't change anything.
Not yet. You want Nintendo to be as profitable as possible so that can never become a reality, though. Or at least, you should if you're a gamer.
Perfect Cha0s
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$199 Vita with a month of PS+ packed in. The first taste is free..
FieryBalrog
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Yes, and you should want EA and Activision to be as profitable as possible too. After all, it doesn't matter what a game company provides you with as a gamer, it just matters that they should make gigantic $$ profits so they can stick around for longer.
To be more precise, fans of Japanese games in general.
Which is why it's kind of frustrating: we have no idea if Bravely Default will come out, and we'll have to wait ont he likes of Soul Hackers and SMTIV anyway. The system IS more powerful than the DS, and that means that for games taking advantage of it we'll have to wait longer for them to be developed.
It's still young though, so long as it doesn't fall over dead or anything (and it seems to be out of the danger zone there, unlike the Vita) it'll probably build up a decent library regardless of what happens with western output, and it's not like the DS was the place to go for that anyway.
Or a remodeled 3DS U with detachable halves and plays Nintendo Land 3D edition.
Exactly. Both platforms have and will soon have excellent games covering a wide variety of genres. All this, "it/they has/have no games" is bologna. They are both early in their lifecycles, so not wanting to buy either the 3DS or Vita due to perceived lack of a critical mass of games that someone would like is a reasonable argument.
Aquamarine
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Honestly that's how most people in the industry look at it.
I for one want every video game company to be successful. Even if I'm competing with them, the last thing I want is for their company to go under...because that means people with lost jobs and broken dreams.
Behind every company there are people who pour their heart and soul into it. What kind of evil person WANTS a company to be unprofitable and fail?
demosthenes
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Jesus. You can almost buy 2 3DS systems for the price of a Vita.
ScreenSplitter
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Regardless of when you bought a 3DS XL, you get a free retail title via Club Nintendo. You get to choose from 3D Land, Prof. Layton, and some others... I only mentioned those two as the others are sort of meh.
sixteen-bit
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i doubt it.
How does this work?!
ScreenSplitter
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The benefits of going low profile with system specs... at the end of the day, price rules in consumers eyes, especially in a very contested enviroment where the portables are (Phones, tablets). Parents don't care the system looks that good as long as its not expensive and is fun for their kids. Also... Nintendo = Brand Name with parents.
On a time aligned basis, the DS is about to explode (DSLite, and a wave of "evergreen" titles). Meaning it will outsell the 3DS fairly quickly. That'd explain the price drop.
ScreenSplitter
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Animal Crossing is coming. And most likely at least news of Zelda/Smash/Pokemon in 2013. That alone should attract new buyers.
The problem for me isn't a lack of games, but rather a lack of games I am willing to spend $39.99 for. Especially for the digital releases (as I would prefer to go digital only if the pricing wasn't so absurd). Dropping the 3DS price to $139.99 was a great move, but Software needs to go back down to $29.99 as the basline, with a $19.99 pricepoint for touch generation-style titles. Some titles could probably afford to continue being released at the $39.99 pricepoint (mainline Mario games, Pokemon, large budget games from S-E or other companies, perhaps some niche titles targeting specific fanbases). However, there are a lot of games on 3DS that I am interested in, but refuse to buy at $40.
Aquamarine
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I agree, it's absolutely...fundamentally crucial that the 3DS is budget priced.
You can get an iPad nowadays for $329 (iPad mini). What's a better value for a casual that doesn't play many games...an expensive $250 device that can only do video games? Or a super-sleek $329 device that can do everything? Or what about those $199 Nexus 7 tablets?
You get my point...
vagabondarts
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The only things missing from the 3DS library to make it legendary are a plethora of Japanese RPGs and some more racing games. Wave race would be amazing. I don't want to have to rely on EA or Gameloft to bring the only racing experiences.
Father_Brain
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airmangataosenai
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The explosion of sales from the end of 2006 up until 2010 is a lot more dramatic than you're thinking that it is, Holiday sales nearly doubled from their 2005 levels for instance. All current indicators have the 3DS performing worse this holiday than it did last holiday, which would correspond to an awful sales period for the original DS. It will take a miracle for the 3DS to surpass the PSP let alone the DS or GBA.
Actually I just picked this up at Best Buy and I got a $20 GC with the bundle. So I basically got it for $180 plus a free Mario Kart.
Is this true? or just GAF-patented speculation?
Easystride
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Any more details? I couldn't find the thread on CAG.
Two Jackson drop.
Well, they could also announce in the middle of next week, in order to not penalize too much sales between price drop's announcement and when it'll be actually effective.
KennyLinder
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I have a 3DS which I want to transfer:
- All the 3DS Streetpass, Mii's, time logs
- E-Shop purchases
- Etc
When buying a 3DS XL I want to buy a new SD card. Can I buy the XL, put a new SD card in, transfer my 3DS stuff across including all the games Ive bought, then download the included Mario Kart 7 (from this bundle)? It will have my eshop linked?
- All the 3DS Streetpass, Mii's, time logs
- E-Shop purchases
- Etc
When buying a 3DS XL I want to buy a new SD card. Can I buy the XL, put a new SD card in, transfer my 3DS stuff across including all the games Ive bought, then download the included Mario Kart 7 (from this bundle)? It will have my eshop linked?
Picked up the XL with Mario Kart 7 this morning. Got it at Best Buy cos of their 20$ giftcard with purchase. Finally that copy of OoT 3D that's been gathering dust since it came out will get some lovin'.
I'm wondering if I delete the Mario Kart 7 or something will I be able to redownload it? I would assume not.
I'm wondering if I delete the Mario Kart 7 or something will I be able to redownload it? I would assume not.
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