Nintendo 3DS News Roundup

Published on January 19, 2011, by Lorenzo Veloria - Posted in Featured, News, Previews 1

A whole lot of new information has come out of Nintendo about the 3DS, and unless you want to scour the internet for all the latest info you can find it in summation right here.

Prime among the new details is that the 3DS system will be released in the US on March 27 and March 25 in the UK, and will go on sale for $249.99. Start setting up your lemonade stands, the race to save has begun.

Along with glasses-free 3D games and other apps like the 3D camera, the 3DS will sport multitasking. Taking a bit of functionality from today’s smartphones, the 3DS is making playing games on the go even more convenient. Games and other applications can be suspended so that players will be able to check messages and other notifications by simply pressing the new home button just below the touch screen.

Gone are the Nintendo Friend Codes — well not really, but they have gotten better. Instead of having to input codes for every game you want to play with friends, you now only have to put each friends’ system code into your 3DS once. From then on the 3DS will add friends to your friends list and you will be able to interact with them online. Notifications will pop up when friends sign on to the network and status updates will also appear.

Some new digital content is being added to the 3DS such as a pedometer, which can track the distance you travel while carrying the 3DS and display your stats via the built-in Activity Log, Mii maker for creating Nintendo’s avatars, a game where you can shoot your own face and other augmented reality games, internet browsing software, and a sound player/editor used to play music stored on your SD card. Also, if you have previously downloaded games and content to your DSi you will be able to transfer the games and data over to the 3DS, so expect to see a lot of DSis in the used section in game stores.

The games listed to be available this spring by Nintendo are:

Pilot Wings: Resort

Super Street Fighter 4 3D Edition

Nintendogs + Cats

Steel Diver

Asphalt 3D

Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars

Kid Icarus: Uprising

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D

Madden NFL Football

Dead or Alive Dimensions

Pro Evolution Soccer

Star Fox 64 3D

Ridge Racer 3D

Combat of Giants: Dinosaurs 3D

Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D

Bust-a-Move Universe

Super Monkey Ball 3D

Samurai Warriors Chronicles

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Shadow Wars

The Sims 3

That’s about it for now. There are more neat little videos on Nintendo’s official web site.

Source: Nintendo.com

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I was lucky enough to get into the London Eurogamer 3DS showcase and get my hands on the console for a decent hour long play on a few games…

Pilot Wings Resort was great, it had an amazing sense of depth and anyone getting a 3DS should defintely have this on their list.

Lego Star Wars was OK at best, the 3D aspect just seemed tacked on. That was only a few minutes play though, I would hope they’d leverage more out of the possibility. I mean it’s Star Wars for goodness sake!

Kid Icarus was tricky to play as holding the 3DS, moving and firing with your left hand then controlling your aim with the stylus in your right hand was quite difficult. The actual 3D aspect was great though, soaring through the air and swooping down – if Sin & Punishment makes it to the console it would look fantastic based on this.

Resident Evil was again just OK, I tried to get used to the 3D aspect but thought it was a bit pointless. Again just a few minutes play so hoping it’ll get better.

Zelda…amazing….nuff said.

Overall though I did leave with a tiny bit of a headache but I’ll put that down to bad lighting in the event and not the 3DS

The slider on the right-hand side changes the depth of field so if you do have problems with the 3D then you can adjust, although rendering the 3DS a little pointless. Also you really did have to hold the console steady and not shift the screen around too much as you’ll lose the perspective, I found a good few times having to really concentrate on focussing on my character.

It’s a winner though.