So last evening I did take the time to read some stuff on it, turns out it's a flop and has gotten Nintendo into deep poo. Gah! Hope they manage to get their act together as I was kinda looking forward to this thing. Nintendo seemed to be out running everybody in terms of stand alone handhelds for the past years, so I didn't give it a second thought.
Yeah, you'll be buying the Nyko battery pack soon, oh and the extra joystick and L2/R2 chunky attachment they're bringing in to get Capcom's business. And if that gets mainstream, seems obvious to me a new model of 3DS is coming.
Still, the announcement of MH3G and MH4 has got me pretty happy. Let's just hope Capcom ain't a ***** about it and don't localise it for Europe (apparently Australia counts as Europe.
Nintendo has been pretty shitty about the whole thing. I bought it for $350AUD, around $355/$360 USD, because that's what it sold for at launch. Since I've noticed the shitty battery life, and hard to press Dpad that squeeks. Most of the games on Wikipedia sounded great, but so far all we're getting is remakes, many which I already had. I bought Rayman, and gave up. They literally did nothing to change the game, except omgwow3d!
The ingame instructions are labeled for the PS1/2 "X to jump". Not only that but it's packed with glitches. My sister just bought a 3DS (she doesn't live with us anymore so i couldn't advise against it). She bought Zelda for kicks (we have both '64 Zelda games) and they've turned on easy mode! Apparently they give way more tips.
Loyal Nintendo fans have been let down. Their best fans bought it at launch, and have been screwed over with battery life, controller pack, and a huge pricecut, which was made up for with what will be 30 free old games. Too bad I have a NES and SNES, and the games I didn't have have been crap.
Also, have you guys tried drawing or printing big giant versions of the AR card and trying it out? It's so cool.
Watch some videos on it, if you haven't seen them yet.
Yeah, it's pretty awesome. I've only tried 4 A3 sheets of paper, it was pretty big.
Best feature of the 3DS IMO, not counting backward capacity with DS games.
This post has taken me a while to write, stupid laggy phone
