Nintendo 3DS
 

Nintendo 3DS Launch Event

Play early, buy early!

Be amongst the first to experience the new Nintendo 3DS in Canada. Come play the Nintendo 3DS before it hits store shelves...

To celebrate the launch of the new Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo will be hosting events in Toronto and Vancouver on Saturday, March 26th, from 6:00pm to 12:00 am. There will be multiple Nintendo 3DS gaming stations onsite with a wide selection of 3D games such as Face Raiders, Pilotwings Resort, Nintendogs + Cats, Super Street Fighter IV: 3D edition plus many more...

Arrive early for your chance to win free Nintendo 3DS toques and t-shirts (while supplies last). In Toronto, Virgin Radio will be onsite giving away Nintendo 3DS systems from 6:00-8:30pm (onsite draw). Make sure to enter onsite for your chance to win!

Once you’ve had a chance to play Nintendo 3DS, stop by Future Shop Yonge-Dundas or Future Shop on Robson to buy the Nintendo 3DS early... These locations will be open at 12:00 am.

To support Earth Hour 2011, between 8:30pm-9:30pm, Nintendo of Canada will turn off our lights and not draw any electrical power at our dedicated event space.

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I'm contemplating pre-ordering... good idea? Or will it sell out?

fucking Earth Hour :rolleyes:

^^it's a good idea actually. Some people use to much electricity unnecessarily.

But that's another topic.

It is nothing more than a means of self promotion by corporations. As bad as "eco-marketing" gets, earth hour is by far the worst case of it.

For everyone else, it's a lame pat on the back to do once a year. Want to use less energy? Use less energy. All year round. One hour a year isn't going to do shit.

As far as the actual topic, if you want a 3DS you definitely need to pre-order. They fully expect to be production limited for the first year at least. It's not gonna be a flop

I am looking forward to checking it out myself, but I don't plan on buying one any time soon.

Sorry for the rant.. I despise eco marketing, and like I said, earth hour is the worst case of it there is.

^you're right about earth hour but at the very least it does create a hiccup of awareness.
its not really about the 1hr of energy savings.

So.... who's actually getting a 3DS?

Yeah but my main point is it's not really about the awareness either. Except awareness of corporate pandering

alot of people are going to be buying this out of novelty of 3d

my gf who is not even a gamer wants to get one just for kicks.. and she wants to use it for potential 3d movies on netflix

as for games, the DS is still very much alive with good line up of games coming out this year, id rather wait for the next iteration the following year with hopeful better battery life.. $250 is too much for a hardware that looks like it has the same graphic capabilities of a psp.. and no i wont consider getting an NGP..

im cool with 3d as long as i dont have the wear the dumb glasses.
also theres a slider that you can use to turn the 3d effects up or down or off completely

also the graphics were never a reason to get a ds..
if you want a console that runs higher graphics wait for the new psp

im getting it for a few games. Kid icarus, SSF4, and ocarina of time 3d. I could play ocarina for years.

why can't they bring back the gba slot :( i have a bunch of gba games that i could still play again... i think it was a dumb idea to remove the slot in the beginning.. they had it in the ds.. and dsl... why they have to take it out for dsi? it's not like they have to change anything on the console.. and it's bigger than the dsl... so i don't see why they can't fit it there :(

Anyone know if I can pre-order it?

I played Street Fighter on maximum 3d, my eyeballs felt they were gonna explode.

u mean if u can still pre-order it? I think so. I just placed an order on FS few hours ago with free starter kit.

It doesnt look like it's sold out on pre-order just yet.....

I'd bet that most users will be turning off 3D on every game they play after about 20 minutes at most. Thankfully they have adjustable 3D levels, some games work better at different levels too.

i picked it up and the 3d is pretty amazing without glasses for a handheld device, too bad the battery life kinda sux. went to futureshop on robson for the launch to pickup the preorder starter kit. + they were giving out a free hard case for the 3ds so wasn't too bad. the price is a bit expensive ya, but you know ppl will still fork out the money for it.. just coz it's nintendo.. kinda like apple products lol... and at least nintendo is forcing the competitor to up their products ~ so in some way i support nintendo :)

Regardless of how much it costs or if the 3D aspect is just another gimmick to another product, still tons of ppl will buy it. When the Nintendo DS came out, all my friends seriously bought one, I got tempted but never gave in. Good decision cuz no one plays it anymore LOL, saved myself $200buxs :fullofwin:

i bought it, direction pad is horrible street fighter ported over well IMO EXCEPT FOR THIS DIRECTION PAD.

This is crap, what was nintendo thinking not putting a proper 8 way directional pad in like found in a ps3 joystick.

Gonna wait till they have better Game's...not a whole lot i want to try yet.


I'll wait for Zelda 64 3D & James bond: golden eye 007's wireless 6 person multi-player

AR games was pretty cool. My dad was blown away haha.
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i got it, no games yet, gonna continue with pokemon black and ar games

first 3ds game i'll get will probably be zelda or the gundam game

i got street fighter 4 for the sake of getting i.. and got pilot wing haha i loved that game on the n64

Let's edit the title and make this the 3DS thread

I was misled into thinking I could video chat with other DS's with this thing, I'm deeply saddened.