Topic: Official Nintendo 3DS Discussion Thread - Specs, Tech, Price? It's all here!

[VirusChris]

That's their PR excuse.  The real reason is that investors and other such corporate big-wigs are afraid of imports disrupting their regional businesses.  Complete bullshit seeings how the money still goes to their head office anyway, but businessmen scare easily like that.

So stupid indeed... they're STILL getting money. But if Japan import games from Amercia it's cheaper for them than getting a game in Japanso they lose money that way but if it's a game that was released in Japan first and then localized in the West later.

Still region-locking is dumb.

[Police Girl]

I guess there was a Direct today.

Highlights:

-Luigi for Smash to the surprise of nobody.
-Zelda: Link Between Worlds features a new link from Lttp, and there's a new other world that is new, not the old Dark World.
-LAYTON X WRIGHT CONFIRMED FOR US.

[Phi]

-LAYTON X WRIGHT CONFIRMED FOR US.

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There better be physical copies!

[Mirby]

Another tidbit about A Link Between Worlds: I'm guessing it's about 6 generations after Link to the Past. There's an old man (presumably Sahasrahlah's descendant, judging by appearance) who says something along the lines of "In my grandfather's grandfather's grandfather's time..." when talking about the events of LttP. So, if the average age is say, 60, for all of them, that's... 360 years. Or maybe they're only 50, in which that would be 300 years.

[Police Girl]

Going by the timeline would that put it after LttP or put it all the way at the end past Adventure of Link?

[Mirby]

going by the timeline... pretty sure that it would end up sometime after Link's Awakening, before the Golden Era.

which would make the decline timeline

LttP > Oracles > LA > ALBW > LoZ > AoL

cause the Golden Era and the Era of Decline that followed were quite some time in the future. Hundreds, if not thousands, of years. Obviously Hyrule hasn't begun to decline yet, and I doubt that the monarchs of Hyrule have begun to actively use the Triforce for their own means. We'll see though.

[Phi]

There's a Dream Team demo on the eShop!

[Sakura Leic]

So Nintendo has announced the 2DS that is aimed at kids from 5 to 6 which is basically a 3DS with no 3D and is a huge slate instead of the clamp shell with a slider on the same side as the 3D slider but puts it in sleep mode instead.  It'll be released on October 12th to coincide with the release if Pokemon X and Y.

http://kotaku.com/introducing-the-nintendo-2ds-no-thats-not-a-typo-1214807721

I can kinda understand why they made this thing and even used the slate design over the clamp shell, but I kinda think they should have made the thing a little less thick.  Then again a lot of kid things are thick so what do I know.

[Phi]

You can set parental controls on the 3DS to block the use of 3D.

The 2DS is a load of horseshit.

[Sakura Leic]

That is true but I don't really hate it myself.

[N-Mario]

Yea, it's a load of BS alright. Why get a 2DS if you already have the original 3DS, or the new 3DSXL? I think Nintendo is getting drunk or something. Or extremely late to the April Fools party charade.

[Kieran]

Nintendo has explicitly stated it's not intended for people who already own a 3DS.  It's a budget model marketed toward the people who don't already have one and don't care about the 3D screen.

[Mirby]

I don't think you're supposed to get a 2DS if you already have those. It's meant as an alternative. Also good for those who have vision issues and can't actually see 3D.

That said, that thing is hideous. Blech.

[Sakura Leic]

Yeah I do agree that I don't really like the design that much, I think it should be smaller if they were going for the slate thing.  And yeah no point in buying it if you have a 3DS in the first place of course, but for those who don't and don't need the 3D you might as well get the cheaper model.

[Police Girl]

Can't say its the greatest idea.

Can't wait for confused parents wondering where all the 2DS games are.

[Mirby]

It's actually slightly smaller than the normal 3DS.

[Sakura Leic]

It's actually slightly smaller than the normal 3DS.

I haven't found a size comparison thingy, and I can't look up the official site with an iPad, or at least the 2DS part.

[Mirby]

I'm waiting for one to load right now. I'll post images when I'm done.

Or you can check them out yourself

[Sakura Leic]

Huh it actually looks better to me now.


Edit:Though the D pad and Circle pad should be lower.

[Mirby]

[Sakura Leic]

Yeah I think the buttons should have at least matched the 3DS's placement.

[Mirby]

Same. Though the lack of a hinge would make the shoulder buttons harder to reach, which is why they probably moved the buttons up.

[Sakura Leic]

Yeah that might be it, let's just see what the targeted consumers think.

[Satoryu]

I do like that Start and Select are actual buttons, and the shoulder buttons are pretty big. But otherwise this thing is dumb.

[Protoman Blues]

At first I couldn't figure out why it's not foldable. The only conclusion I could come up with is, if it indeed meant for kids 6 & younger, things that fold can break easier.