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/me reads @zeldaman's comment.
/me wonders why people ask questions of "when" when the when hasn't been announced. (Let alone that there /will/ be a green 3DS.

Rhythym Heaven (DS) was a very awesome game, so I will definitely pick this up.

No bikes or tricks? Aw, I took great advantage of the speed wheelies and shaking the controller on ramps gave me. Still sounds promising, so I'm looking forward to it.

If this is your goal, Nintendo, why did you name the system Wii U? If you gave it a name that didn't tie it to the Wii and didn't sound as stupid as Wii did, "core" gamers might think twice about the system and look at it. But with a name tying it to the Wii, said gamers won't even glance at the Wii U, thinking "it's just another Wii."

Reminds me of how there are some Mario elements in Link's Awakening (A Chain Chomp somewhere, a Yoshi doll, some Goombas...)

Yeah, ever since I've played Mario, I've had the urge to jump on people's heads. /sarcasm

Seriously, not all games are damaging, it's more of an effect of violent games on children. Whatever they see normally in their early days has an impact on what they think is normal. No kid should think maiming people is normal. Really, those kids need to stick to E rated games. I'm surprised at how many 5-year-olds play COD...

Hey guys, I think you can only connect 1 Touch-screen controller to the Wii U at a time. You guys can stop going "OMG EXPENSIVE CONTROLLER" now.

Eh. The concept sounds awesome but not much of a reason to buy the game. If it's a crappy game, I wouldn't want to play it at all, let alone play it on multiple platforms.
Anyway, if this concept became the norm, I would totally love that, and it might actually make me buy 2 copies of a game (one for a home platform and another for a handheld platform). Then again, why buy 2 of the same game? If all the versions of the game are going to be the same, I'd rather buy it for a handheld and that'll be it. I'll bet anybody who isn't obsessed with the "home experience" would be the same.

User reviews wouldn't be the best idea IMO. On the iOS App Store there are people that spam, people that judge games unfairly, and people that give the game one star just because it's not compatible with their device (Although the eShop probably won't have that problem unless Ninty wants to take the very unlikely route of making a more powerful 3DS)

Only two words for the video: Great Scott.

It's funny how multiplatform games that weren't on Wii are being ported to the 3DS. Like how the 3DS launched with Super Street Fighter IV, but the Wii never had it. But I think Sonic Generations will be a little downgraded on the 3DS. Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition was the same game with extras, except all the people in the background are static. It doesn't look as cool when everybody in the background is a statue...

I would love to someday open up my Nintendo Whatchmacallit and be able to select any game without having to insert cartridges. However I think the handheld market isn't quite ready for total digital distribution. I love my iPhone (I'm actually typing on it now) and it has some pretty good games, but if I want to play a Mario or Pokemon equivalent on it, the App Store doesn't have much of a selection. That's because deep games need more memory, and you have a limited supply. If an iOS developer wants to make a game as long and deep as a typical
DS game, his game would be as big as one GB and nobody is going to keep a huge game on their device for a while if it's restricting how many apps the user can hold. I deleted 2 apps from my iPhone that were nice, but took a lot of memory that I wanted back. If Nintendo does go cartridgeless, they should make a entirely new portable. The biggest of the PSP Go's downfalls was that because it didn't have a game slot, PSP owners wouldn't be able to play their old games without buying them again. There is room for an entirely digital game store on PCs and Consoles (Except Wii, of course) due to their massive memory storage. Steam has proved to be very popular and even I use it. XBox 360 and PS3 offer full games on their stores (I think?). This all works because hardrives can store a ton of memory, with harddrives going up to 2 TB (that's 2,000 GB!) and will probably go above and beyond in the future. When flash memory becomes smaller and more affordable, and Nintendo is actually willing to put more memory in their products (Really, Nintendo? Why bundle the 3DS with a 2GB SD Card when you could have put that memory inside the machine?), maybe we will see a time when cartridges no longer exist and everything is a digital download.

Let's not forget that console games are aloud to suck as much energy as they want without effecting playtime. Anyone who's ever played an iOS port of a console game (Bit.Trip Beat, World of Goo, etc.) knows what I'm talking about. Those games drain plenty of my iPhone's power...

@Dragoon: My thoughts exactly.

Race walk? Where have I seen this before?

Yeah, constrictions definitely make iconic appearances. Did you know the reason Mario wears a hat is because hardware restrictions didn't give enough pixels to animate his hair? If he was just appearing today, he might be hatless for an entire game, whether it has hat-stealing monkeys or not.

Guys, I don't think he means that tilting the 3DS in any way would move the camera. I think what he means is you hold down a button and move the 3DS to adjust the camera. Any other way would be just too annoying to be Nintendo.

@Kirk: The app store can get away with small prices because the development team is much smaller (sometimes even one person), the games don't come in any packaging that needs to be paid for, and the games themselves have less content than retail games.

I started disbelieving it after I read "Wii Sports will be sold separately." That game is not enough for $20 and deserves to be included with the console.

I wouldn't be surprised if this rumor was true. Instead of giving the 3DS more than half a GB of flash memory, they put half a GB in there and put a free SD card in it. I hope it has a hard drive in it though.

He's controlling Mario with a 360 controller!

Thank goodness! Touch buttons work okay when they're on the same screen as the action like an iPhone game that reallies on button action, but when playing games on a screen separate from the device I'm using to move my character, I and pretty much everybody else need physical buttons to rest my thumbs on without doing something I didn't tend to do and to figure out where my thumb is placed. I used one of those virtual WiFi PC controller apps on my iPhone before, and it didn't last very long on my phone (and same for the client program on my computer) once I realized it was impossible to determine where my thumbs were, and on top of that I couldn't rest my thumbs on the screen without doing something unintentionally. Buttons FTW.

Huh? 3DTV Support? That doesn't match up with what Nintendo has said. They said that they want 3D gaming to be glasses free. Nonetheless, I hope these rumors prove true, except for the price.

A controller with a touch screen, eh? I remember hearing that Nintendo used that as a concept when they were developing the console after Gamecube, but they decided not to because then it would be too similar to the DS.

Just imagine, we could have already had touch screen Wiis.

Oh, and hold the phone. It's compatible with Wii games, but will use an all new controller? Huh. Hopefully this means Wiimotes will connect to the system much like Gamecube controllers connect to the Wii, and not that a dude was making up rumors and made a flaw.

Eh, if you want to steal Pokemon, play Colosseum or XD.

EPIC.

Hey, Tretton, how many notable games does the PSP have again?

Yeah, that's right.

@Scrubber: A normal 3DS cartridge is 2GB, which is also the size of the included SD card, and more than the 3DS's internal memory can hold. That would mean games that fill up the entire included SD Card, and that thing has to have other data in it too, namely extra data created by games for stuff like Streetpass and Spotpass. I don't think it would be a good idea for games to be the size of 2GB. No matter how much I would like to buy games and download them straight to my system, it doesn't seem like it would work. It works for Sony because they put lots of memory on their systems so they can hold many games. Most people probably aren't going to upgrade their SD Card on their 3DS, so they wouldn't be able to download 2GB games when the SD Card is the 3DS's biggest resource for data outside cartridges (The camera even saves pictures to the SD card by default).

When I logged in, I thought that the article reporting the 3DSWare file size limit could be bigger than WiiWare's was fake. I've never been happier to be wrong.

Rovio made a good game, but they're a moron when it comes to waving the game around. Nintendo games aren't just plastic. It's not about the outside, but the inside that counts. Angry Birds is a good distraction when you got 2-3 minutes to kill, but Nintendo's games are for a real gaming fix. Handheld and cell phone games are 2 different things that can exist together in perfect harmony. Rovio is stupid to try to make the two beasts fight each other.

When I see a game that's on both WiiWare and Steam that I want, I choose the Steam version. Why? Because Steam loves to have huge super sales at least 3 times a year. If I want a game, I can put it on my wishlist and wait for the game to go on super sale. Nintendo doesn't do this, which is why I prefer Steam, along with Steam's community features, which I hope the 3DS gets something similar to.

@LoopyLuigi: I think you're being too extreme. Not /all/ iOS games are shovelware, but a lot seem to be. I don't think Angry Birds is shovelware (although the extra holiday installments are another story) and Doodlejump isn't shovelware. I have several games on my iPhone that I like to play, and I have about 50 games. It's usually that when there's a good game, someone goes out a makes a clone of the game, and that's shovelware. And if you've been disappointed by iOS purchases, do yourself a favor: Whenever you look at a game on the App Store that you are considering, read reviews, try lite versions, and if the game doesn't have a lite version, then go to the Apple/AT&T/Verizon/[Insert iPhone Retailer Here] Store and see if the demo iPhones have the app, and play the version (that's how I decided on buying Doodlejump :/ ). But I respect the fact that iOS games aren't for everyone, you might be a person that enjoys lots of depth in your games, and many iOS games are crap. I'm not at all an iPhone worshiper, in fact once I was stuck waiting for something with my iPhone, but I was yearning to play Pokemon White.

It looks like Commander Video got shrunk down to Meat Boy size and is jumping around the Aperture Science Lab.

@tealovertoma: I actually hope they sell out for months. Otherwise I didn't really have a reason to preorder...

Easy for Zynga to say. A lot of their games are copied from other Facebook games (Farmville is copied from Farm Town, Cafe World is a copy of Restaurant City, etc.).

@Capt_N: Huh? Pay & Play has never been related to WiFi hotspots. A Pay & Play Wii game means you can pay extra to get DLC.

I take this as a sign that I should preorder ASAP?

Kinda looks like an iDog (Which also happens to have been originally designed by Sega Toys).

@JirachiFan: No, the 3DS doesn't. Just because it has screenshots that loom like the Wii doesn't mean it's not more powerful. Nobody really knows how powerful it is, but it can't be more powerful than a home console.

Fixed (The other guy was just talking about what Pixel, who was the sole creator, did)

And Activision has been shutting stuff down like mad since the beginning of 2010. They closed down Red Octane (like I said before were the Guitar Hero controller manufactures), fired the founders of Infinity Ward (the COD creators) and now they discontinued Guitar Hero. They have closed down more divisions than I listed. I wouldn't be surprised if Activision ends up with only a handful of developers under their command to develop for them. Then they'll probably buy some companies out and possibly repeat the cycle...

@HolyMackeral: Guitar Hero and Rock Band are from different companies, although the same company that created Guitar Hero (Harmonix) was eventually bought by MTV Games while Red Octane (the guys that made the guitar controllers) and the Guitar Hero brand was bought by Activision, who put Neversoft on the job to develop new Guitar Hero games, while Harmonix went on to make Rock Band. Because both series are extremely similar, people believed that Guitar Hero and Rock Band were both made by the same company, but they aren't.

@Tails: What's wrong with New Super Mario Bros.?

Once E3 was over, my entire body was screaming for a 3DS ASAP. Now that I've heard about the battery life and now this, my body has settled down a bit.

Since Club Nintendo might not show all of your downloaded games (as in, if you linked your DSi to Club Nintendo after buying stuff), it's only logical that the only way to transfer DSiWare to a 3DS would be if the DSi got updated too, and there would be a new option in the settings to transfer DSiWare Account Info, or there will be an app you would download from the shop for free. Then when that's selected, you could put the 3DS in a similar mode and the DSi would send it's DSiWare Account data onto the 3DS. You would then have to download all of your DSiWare through the shop, or transfer it with an SD card (considering if Nintendo Customer Service only transfers DSiWare Account Data from an unfixable DSi to a new DSi and expects you to redownload all your games, it only seems like they would do the same for 3DS).

I wonder what the actual game is like. What I imagine it would be like is like just any other Pokemon game, except you must do every action by typing a random given word (i.e. in order to select "ATTACK" you must type "fruitcake", or to select "BAG" you type "chocolate"), although I hope you wouldn't have to do that when walking around. Can you imagine typing up a different word for every step?

Guys, I don't think you're getting what this is. It's not a cartoon show, it's a game show along the lines of Wipeout (a game show where people must go though an obstacle filled path over a pool of water). So, I think this might actually be worth watching.

@Crystalking18: Pack in game? Nobody ever said the 3DS came with a pack in game. Shouldn't those 6 Augmented Reality Cards be enough of a pack in game?

The charger looks like that for a DSi. If so, the 3DS is following the footsteps on the original DS in more ways than one (You know, as in using the charger from the console before it, not to mention the fact that it's a new innovating console).

This sounds like a good idea. Reward people for walking by giving them an exclusive character/track in MarioKart, An extra breed in Nintendogs + Cats, maybe a bonus level in other games. And for those asking for another way to earn these coins, just shake the 3DS. And if you're too lazy to do that, tape your 3DS to one of those up-down moving fans and hope the thing doesn't fall off.

Where there's a need, there's a product, like that enormous amount of wiimote chargers, and as a better example, those iPhone portable batteries/ battery charging cases. Just you wait, there will be several different portable charging packs and charging cases come mid-year.