Nintendo 3DS

[gizmo1990]

I am staggered at those battery reports. Are we absolutely sure they are official? If so I think Nintendo have taken their first wrong step in the portable space for, well, ever!

Nintendo have always said that battery life for a portable is a priority and they've always been proved right. I'm sure it'll sell regardless but it's a massive step backwards for me.

Regarding Ridge Racer, why are people even considering it? What are they basing their liking on? Everything I've seen of it looks terrible. It's basically a straight ****ty iphone port isn't it?

[The Mole]

I already think the aqua one is quite sexy as games consoles go.

Some new games have been anounced on the sly including a 3D Tetris that looks a bit hyper and a Raving Rabbids platformer.

[abigsmurf]

They released some more shots of RR 3DS recently and it looks slightly improved over the early shots. Still not amazing though, when a title from Gameloft has better graphics than your game, you're doing it wrong.

[gizmo1990]

I think I've seen the shots you're talking about and they still look terrible imo. Awful car models and terrible texture sizes.

[Tig]

I am staggered at those battery reports. Are we absolutely sure they are official? If so I think Nintendo have taken their first wrong step in the portable space for, well, ever!

Nintendo have always said that battery life for a portable is a priority and they've always been proved right. I'm sure it'll sell regardless but it's a massive step backwards for me.

I agree - although there is some basis for hope, due to the fact that Nintendo always lowballed their battery life estimates for the DS. The official documentation for the DSi says it only lasts 3-4 hours on the brightest setting, and yet I've never seen anyone complain about the DSi's battery capacity.



Hopefully the estimates for the 3DS are worst-case-scenario figures. If in practise it lasts around 4-6 hours when playing 3DS games then I won't care too much.

[merf]

I thought Namco's whole policy was to get away with releasing crappy ridge racer games on launches as the desperate had money to burn.

Hasn't been a decent one since the PS1 in my eyes

Agree that if correct the battery figures sound a serious misstep, unless they see this as more of a home portable.

[abigsmurf]

Fairly extensive trailer showing 5 or so seconds of most of the line up:



There are almost 2 tiers of graphics for games. Some are Gamecube level, some are PSP level.

Is my memory failing or is that a new level for Star Fox?

*edit*

Yep my memory is failing, that was in the original

[Adam Stone]

Cannot wait. Looks awesome - am very intrigued to see the West's launch lineup.

[Flabio]

There are almost 2 tiers of graphics for games. Some are Gamecube level, some are PSP level.

Does it perhaps split long 2d and 3d lines? The 3d technique here effectively halves the horizontal resolution when it's turned on.

[briareos_kerensky]

The dungeon crawler shown is not Etrian Odyssey/Sekaiju no MeiQ (if not mistaken), but throughout the 2011 the line up looks solid enough.

[abigsmurf]

Read that it's class of heroes somewhere.

The graphical style of the dungeons is in keeping with EO but the character designs aren't.

Definitely isn't Strange Journey which will almost certainly be another incredibly lazy Atlus port. They deserve to get a lot of crap for Devil Survivor Overclock.

[fuse]

There were lots of games in that rundown that I'd buy. Anyone speculating as to when we will find oh about the region lock, or are we waiting for there to be hardware & carts I'n more than one region?

[abigsmurf]

I'd imagine we'll hear about it in the interviews after the EU and US events. It's not a feature they'll want to highlight whether they have it or not.

It's entirely possible we won't know until launch though. People didn't know that DSi titles were region locked until they bought the games.

Hoping the US and EU models have different colours though. I want that orangey-reddish one from E3.

[briareos_kerensky]

Read that it's class of heroes somewhere.

The graphical style of the dungeons is in keeping with EO but the character designs aren't.

The first Class of Heroes had worse graphics than the first EO, and they were on PSP and DS respectively...Atlus didn't port the following chapters after the initial US release, if they do with this 3DS version I hope developers made the game interesting and with less obtuse menus.

[briareos_kerensky]

It's a mix of various game styles...Nintendo have to change Pit's walking animation, it's awful.