3DS
How to get a 3DS and 20 games for $170
Wanna get a 3DS with 20 free downloadable games for $170? Head on over to your local Walmart on Aug 9, reports CAG, and you can do just that since the store will purportedly be price dropping three days early. So long as you register with the eShop by 11:59 p.m. Eastern on Aug. 11, you’ll get the free games, including . That being the case, you should be able to do the same with any other s...
eShop welcomes Ambassadors
3DS owners, today’s eShop update includes–along with Mario’s Picross and three DSiware titles–a welcome message to all its freshly-inducted Ambassadors. (Toadsworth isn’t actually the program mascot, but he should be: He’s classy, he’s good with PR, and he needs the work.) “You are a Nintendo 3DS Ambassador!” proclaims the message, which can be...
Screenshots of Mighty Switch Force hit the web, continues to impress
WayForward Technologies has revealed its newest project to be Mighty Switch Force, a action heavy sidescroller to be released on the eShop. The Facebook page for Mighty Switch Force was just updated with screenshots from the game, and by my calculation, it’s shaping up to be one heck of a good time. Revealed in the July issue of Nintendo Power, Mighty Switch Force is the spiritual successo...
Here’s Nintendo’s apologetic letter to 3DS owners
To Those Customers Who Bought A Nintendo 3DS Before The Price Change Greetings, everyone. This is Satoru Iwata from Nintendo. Thank you very much for purchasing a Nintendo 3DS. We have just announced a price drop for the Nintendo 3DS system effective on August 12 in North America. In the past, there have been price drops for video game systems some time after their release in order to broaden the ...
One developer sees $42.1m in profits, credits 3DS game sales
You would have thought that the enormous price cut that Nintendo’s newest handheld just received would indicate that third party developers would be experiencing the same lackluster sales, but for one developer, that is not the case.
Bits, bobs, and a fun fact from the 3DS world
Just a little gathering of 3DS mini-news and trivia: So far, so good for Nintendo Video: as promised, the company delivered three new 3D videos via Spotpass. Bearshark is, by far, the most fun and twisted of the bunch–and it’s interesting to see a tradional hand-drawn Loony Tunes tribute in 3D. The second new arrival, OK Go’s music video All is not Lost, is beautifully done a...
Review: Spectacular 3D golf hits eShop
There are two ways to approach a review of Let’s Golf 3D: 1) One could say, “Hey, the eShop just got its first third-party 3D game, and it’s a great one! What an awesome addition to the fledgling handheld’s lineup!” 2) Or, one could grumble, “The eShop’s first third-pary 3D game is a port of a year-old iPhone title! Nintendo is doooooooooomed!” Truth...
Satoru Iwata explains Nintendo’s abrupt 3DS price reduction
Nintendo president Satoru Iwata today discussed with shareholders his decision to suddenly slash the price of 3DS. A price cut for a system so soon after it’s launch is obviously troubling news to investors, so much so that Iwata himself has taken a pay cut. When asked why Nintendo decided to drop the price of the 3DS system so soon after launch, Iwata stated, “For us to maximize the effect...
Did Nintendo just admit the death of dedicated handheld gaming?
Like many of you, I awoke to news yesterday that Nintendo had cut the price of the 3DS by an unprecedented 32% in one fell swoop. Wired Magazine called it a “fire sale.” More unprecedented was how quickly it happened; only four months after the 3DS launch. (NOTE: Nintendo’s other slow selling systems, N64 and GameCube, saw 25% price drops six months after launch. Virtual Boy was ...
Despite radical price drop, 3DS still too expensive, says Wired
I’m pretty sure this is the first time in history that a sizable price cut of a high-profile game system wasn’t entirely well-received. “Even at $170, it’s still too expensive,” writes Wired’s Chris Kholer, who like our own resident fanman, is normally a adamant Nintendo enthusiast.
Nintendo reports $323 million in losses, decides to charge a fair price for the 3DS
Who would have know that things could change this swiftly for the house that Mario built? Perhaps because of poor sales and the impending arrival of the Playstation Vita, effective August 12th the new MSRP for a shinny new 3DS will be $169.99. Aren’t you glad that you’re an early adopter? For the previous quarter, Nintendo has reported revenue of 93.93b Yen ($1.1b) with losses of...