Nintendo 3DS

[Junko]

I was secretly yelling in my mind , turn it on play something on it , ARGHHHHH I want it ...

[Daragon]

Just remembered that the 3DS is out this calendar year!! 2011 will be great. Nothing like a good Nintendo hardware launch...

Provided it's not priced outside of the target market, which is the worry.

No-one will pay 300-400 for it when home consoles can be had for less, especially children.

Their launch period window is also counting against them. A 'holiday' 2010 launch would have seen Nintendo laughing all the way to the bank but a 1st quarter 2011? GL with that.

[Tig]

I think it looks ugly from the side.








I can't help thinking that Nintendo has deliberately sprinkled some ugly dust on it, in the knowledge that it will sell like hot cakes regardless. Then version 2.0 will come along looking sleek as hell, and my wallet will get owned a second time.


I know this to be true, and yet I am powerless against it.

[Grapple Convoy]

Provided it's not priced outside of the target market, which is the worry.

No-one will pay 300-400 for it when home consoles can be had for less, especially children.

Their launch period window is also counting against them. A 'holiday' 2010 launch would have seen Nintendo laughing all the way to the bank but a 1st quarter 2011? GL with that.

It'll be fine in the long run. The original DS hardly set the world on fire when it was launched.

[wakka]

No-one will pay 300-400 for it when home consoles can be had for less, especially children.

Mate I don't think the 3DS will be 400 quid. More like 180 to 200 tops. Because otherwise that would be insane.

[Daragon]

Well I hope you're right, but with the amount of power it seems to have behind it I wouldn't be at all surprised if Nintendo pass on an overly inflated bill for it all, plus the VAT increase wouldn't exactly be helping matters much either.

[Adam Stone]

Mate I don't think the 3DS will be 400 quid. More like 180 to 200 tops. Because otherwise that would be insane.

This. Nintendo know their market, they know they can't ask for anything more than ?200. ?250 would be stretching it...

I'm so excited about the 3DS - Here's hoping for the OOT remake at / very close to release.

[briareos_kerensky]

Glossy screen? I hope the backlight is good enough for outdoors.

Well I hope you're right, but with the amount of power it seems to have behind it I wouldn't be at all surprised if Nintendo pass on an overly inflated bill for it all, plus the VAT increase wouldn't exactly be helping matters much either.

The PS3 was backed up by its predecessor, but everyone balked at its price tag. I strongly doubt that the final price will be above 250£, or it will mean 300€ and even higher US price tag. I hope to see the 3DS go for 200€, with games between the 40-50€ range.

[gizmo1990]

It'll be tops £250 imo. Expensive certainly but given it's features and likely game catalogue people will lap it up, me included.

It's time of release is frankly irrelevant. Yes a pre Christmas release would have ignited sales even more but they simply couldn't have brought enough to market for then.

To suggest a 1st quarter release is going to hinder sales is simply barking. Nintendo will have absolutely no problems shifting this device.

[Daragon]

It'll be tops £250 imo. Expensive certainly but given it's features and likely game catalogue people will lap it up, me included.

It's time of release is frankly irrelevant. Yes a pre Christmas release would have ignited sales even more but they simply couldn't have brought enough to market for then.

To suggest a 1st quarter release is going to hinder sales is simply barking. Nintendo will have absolutely no problems shifting this device.

I never said it would hinder sales, just that they will inevitably sell less to their intended market. I don't know of many parents who would buy their sprog(s) a possible 200 quid+ gaming device so soon after Christmas unless it's a birthday thing - even then it would be pushing it.

The device's power will rival the PSP quite easily - how much did that launch for?

[Family Fry]

1st quarter will do them no harm, if anything it will do them better than a rushed Xmas 2010 release with 10 launch games. A 1st quarter release gives them a good ammount of time to get a fat ammount of games onto the system, all in time for a MASSIVE Xmas 2011.
6-9 months of 3DS word of mouth/showing off, I can imagine the Xmas madness now!

[Daragon]

10 launch games would be good - most of nintendo's past console launches have had practically zilch.

[gizmo1990]

A 'holiday' 2010 launch would have seen Nintendo laughing all the way to the bank but a 1st quarter 2011? GL with that.

Sorry but that certainly sounds like you were suggesting hard times ahead.. my mistake if not.

The device's power will rival the PSP quite easily - how much did that launch for?

How old is the psp now, 5 years?

The insides of the 3ds are well known to be a couple of generations old at least. Nintendo are past masters at using old tech but tech which will give good bang for buck. This is a perfect example.

[Daragon]

I'm just baffled as to why they're choosing March for it's launch window that's all. I've no doubt it will shift countless copies, the problem they face is that they will shift to those people who have what I like to call 'disposable income' something that pre-teen kiddies and their benefit abusing chav parents don't tend to have too much of.

[kryss]

DS lite was released in March, still shifted tonnes.