I have very high hopes for the 3DS, I think it will do extremely well, not just in a sales standpoint but I am expecting the games to be great, and I don't know why. Also I will be selling my Wii to save up for this. Wii... The more and more advanced technology becomes the less attracted I am in the decisions of old companies I used to love to make games that are far less fun than any SNES game. It just doesn't hold the same charm and feeling. And honestly Big Ninty, where the hell is a Super Metroid remake with updated graphics, but still sidescroller, huh? Metroid Prime 1-3 are not Metroid games. To be honest, Metroid Prime 1 was decent, but 2 and 3 were whack. 3 had some tight music though, but when I think Metroid, I think of the best sidescroller action had to offer, not just FPS cuz it can be. Plus, the Gamecube controller scheme just wasn't up to par with PS2 or the Xbob at the time.
Nintendo has a show in japan at the end of the week targeting the 3DS. Nintendo at CES simply just means 3DS public demonstration. Not really anything more. We will probably this week find out the USA launch date & price.
The mere fact that nintendo is at CES 2011 is a testament to how much they need to market their products at the mainstream audience. Microsoft and Sony are always at CES... nintendo is finally realizing they cannot rest on the laurels of "everyone and their grandma loves wii" this far into this generation.
Please stop spreading false information. Nintendo will only be at CES for closed-door meetings. There is no announcement or demo on the show floor. They clarified the press release on November 28, 2010, so I'm not sure why you think Nintendo is showing anything at CES. As much as I dislike Nintendo and many of their practices, there is no doubt that they are a brilliant company when it comes to marketing and building their brand. Somehow, the Wii and DS ended up being the biggest selling consoles this Christmas despite being badly outdated and not really having any new games for either driving sales. I suspect even at $300, the 3DS will be a massive seller to not only the core Nintendo fans, but also to ordinary consumers who are starting to see their personal finances turn around.
It could also be the fact CES is an event about showing off the latest in technology (gaming takes a back seat). They are probably there more to show off their 3D tech. 3D was a big deal at last years CES and I'm sure this year there is going to be a bigger push in glasses-less 3D.
dunno about that. I am a nintendo fan... I do like them, but i wont own their consoles. Regardless, I feel that they are perpetually one step behind while one step forward... Or maybe two steps behind. Its the lack of HD that kills me. They are a JAPANESE COMPANY... This is the country that collectively invented HDTV and yet they forego all that and release the wii. Good console or not, it is just an UGLY graphical machine... and perhaps i am a graphics whore, but yeah... would you watch a hollywood film like avatar if it were obviously stop motion and models on STRINGS like effects were 15+ years ago? and so them being at E3 i think is more a sign of the times for their market. Thats how i feel about that.
okay. I stand corrected. If i had the ability to store every piece of information ever released about an event like CES, my brain would explode.
I would take the look of Nightmare Before Christmas over Avatar any day of the week thank you. In so far as the Wii being ugly, I always thought Super Mario Galaxy looked stunning. Excite Truck as well. Sin & Punishment: Star Successor also looks damn good (in gameplay anyways, the cut scenes look awful).
well go ahead and take the special effects in... hmmm... any live action film circa 1992 vs avatar. I was watching the remake of the addams family and was reminded of how SFX looked back them. FUGLY... Yes, Nightmare before christmas holds up against time. The only modern film I can compare it to would be Coraline. Its the only stop motion film made in the past 5 years. No doubt first party games and second party games look great. reminds me of the Gamecube. Eternal Darkness, Starfox adventures (fur! and the makers of Blinx said it wasnt possible anywhere other than the xbox) and Mario Sunshine looked great. I cant fault nintendo. They are absolute artists in their craft. I just cannot support the console. even if i bought it I wouldn't even use it for netflix, due to lack of HD. What bugs me? The cost of an HD chip in that console would have cost about $10-$15. The console is capable of it, there is no reason for it. It came down to dollars and cents after the "failure" (and it was still very profitable) that was the Gamecube, seeing as if finished last place. And they chose profit over forward thinking. I feel the 3ds is nintendo trying their best to get the jump on people, and all the power to them for that. I wont invest in one, but I do not do much handheld gaming and own an iPad and iPhone...
Which just makes your opinion suspect at best. More than $200 for a handheld is idiotic at best, at worst a great way to ensure you won't get any sales. I'd love to pre-order one today and play some OoT but frankly the $180 for the DSi XL was a bit much let alone more.
Just heard gamestop europe spilled the beans about the price and launch date over there: april 7 at 250 euros, roughly the same than in japan (but two months later) Guess ninty it's jumping the shark this time... And that invalidates any argument you have said or will say in the future
no i do not think it does make my opinion moot at all. In fact, as a person that would be a "new user" it makes it all the more IMPORTANT. I owned a GB, GB Color (it was of course coloUr in canada) and GBA... I quit at that point, but do game on the iPad (currently playing Sim City Deluxe) I also fall into that "holy grail" of gaming demographic... 30 years old, with a decent job, game player, consumer, live in north america blah blah blah.
Items in Europe include sales tax in the price (i think Vat is currently 20%). Plus usual prices are a bit higher to compensate for other things. Generally when something is X USD it tends to cost X in Euro for Europe. Not it cost the exchange rate equivilent of X. -edit- $250 USD = 188.526 EUR + 20% VAT (x1.20) = 226.23 EUR
I will never understand the need for HD. I'm yet to be compelled away from S-Video anytime I see a TV running the "OMG TEH HI-DEF!", but most of my time is spent on the Dreamcast and Saturn these days anyways, and I don't watch enough movies so maybe it doesn't apply to me. In so far as the 3DS, I'm pre-ordering one. The only thing I fear is another year long drought like the DS had with games. I can still remember Zoo Keeper's release being significant... OH:
That makes no fucking sense. So forget about the Wii, then. I'm not bothered that I don't own one, there's a handful of games I would buy for it and currently they aren't worth the price of admission. Nintendo are making billions, good for them - I get my gaming elsewhere. The only people who still seem to care about this are the hopeless Nintendo diehards who wish it was the 90s again, and "high-end" gamers with a peculiar need to talk shit about a product that clearly wasn't ever intended to cater to their tastes. It was one thing to have a moan about the Wii being underpowered in 2006, by now it's getting a little dull.
I doubt that if it's going for $300 in the rest of the world the states will get $50 bucks off the deal, specially since there's no actual competition here (AFAIK the recent surge of PSP sales its only in japan) My take is that nintendo is clearly trying to appeal to a more affluent public like apple does, hence all the functions on the 3DS: they are trying to beat the ipod touch. So if it's going against that it should have the same price, else people will think it's "cheap" (in a bad way) Thats how marketers (and the majority of the world population, which is dumb as shit) thinks.
There will be actual competition. PSP2 is a given and if it's due out end of year (as rumors state), we should be hearing about it in the next 3 months. No matter what nintendo does 3DS will still be seen as a Video Game System and not a all in wonder like the iPod. People will compare it to consoles and question why the hell should they pay $300 when they could buy a PS3 with better graphics (yeah people are retarded). As well with the PSP2, There is not a chance in hell Sony will go above $300 (even if it kills them). So really a $300 3DS would not be a good thing. Sure it will sell well at first because tech freaks and Nintendo fanboys will eat up anything given to them. But long term I don't think it would be wise.
Arrogance is what the wii brought to nintendo, they think they can literally take a shit in a box and people will buy it. The PSP was, considering the hype that preceded it, a complete failure: it was supposed to be a bigger threat than the GG and TE combined, yet it failed to even reach the same sale numbers than the DS. Combine that with the botched Go and nintendo has nothing to fear from the PSP2. Just by looking at the PSphone nintendo can tell sony is fucking up their own strategy again...
