We predicted it early this year and today at GDC, Nintendo’s President Satoru Iwata made it official: the 3DS is getting a fully 3D, original Mario game. I don’t want to sound biased, but F**K YEAH! See the first screens inside...
Neil Young has some fighting words for the 3DS and Sony's forthcoming NGP. Not the legendary musician, mind you (although that would be all shades of awesome), but the head of iOS publisher ngmoco who believes any system aiming to compete with the app gaming market is either dead or dying...
The handheld console wars will be reignited this year with the launch of Nintendo's 3DS and Sony's PSP successor, still referred to as NGP (Next Generation Portable). Both companies are pursuing different strategies when it comes to modern mobile gaming, and Nintendo's Satoru Iwata thinks Sony's 3G/semi-smartphone approach may be prohibitively expensive.
While Sony and Nintendo are definite competitors in the videogame space, they do both share a common goal: make consumers want 3D games. It makes sense, then, that Sony is using an upcoming 3DS game to promote its own 3D media - the company is apparently placing ads in Pro Evolution Soccer 3D...
Activision vice-president George Rose will debate California state senator Leland Yee on March 17 at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club. The two will spar on the topic of restricting sales of violent video games, with Yee, a vocal critic of games in the past, presumably taking the negative side, and Rose the affirmative. Yee was the author of California's violent video game law, which was challenged and generated a case that was argued in front of the Supreme Court last year.
Want to watch it go down live? Details on tickets inside...
I'm not going to tell you that yet. Of course I'm not. You know the rules of the internet by now. Read intro. Click clicky. Get to juicy bit. I don't make 'em, but I've got to stick to 'em. Anyway, the initial point is, the 3DS went on sale in Japan over the weekend and sold a crap-load on its first day, despite fears of eyeball-popping and citywide vomitgasms.
Day one sales are reported as being between 371, 326 and Nintendo's full shipment of 400, 000, depending on who you talk to. Either way, retailers were taking pre-orders for Sunday's second shipment before the end of closing on Saturday, which is pretty wise. First-day queues reportedly stretched out to 900 people, which would have meant a good dose of ransacking, pitchfork-wielding, end-of-James-Whale's-Frankenstein-style death without an orderly system for dishing out the second set.
And the game most liberally setting those early-adopting hearts aflutter? Maybe not one you'd expect...
Just in time for the 3DS debut, Level-5 hosted a 'completion ceremony' for Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle yesterday in Japan, which was broadcast on Ustream. Similar to launch events, completion ceremonies are elaborate press conferences that Japanese studios hold to promote big titles just before their release. If you’ve never seen one before, check it out!...
According to Hideki Konno, group manager of the 3DS hardware project, early 3DS prototypes didn't feature the glasses-free 3D screen that has become the system's main selling point, and the feature wasn't even considered until early 2009, when Nintendo demoed the "really impressive" technology...
Yesterday we showed you the 3DS launch games for both the US and UK, but in Japan the system goes on sale in just a couple days. It’s not surprising that the first reviews ever for 3DS games would accompany the Japanese launch, and said critiques were supplied by Famitsu, the biggest gaming magazine in Japan...
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