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    Nintendo 3DS to hit UK in March

    Handheld gaming machine first with 3D screen



    Nintendo's 3DS, the first portable game device with a 3D screen, will go on sale in Japan on February 26 next year, the company said Wednesday. The 3DS will cost ?25,000 (?188), Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's president, told a packed news conference in Chiba, near Tokyo. It will launch in Europe, Australia and the US in March. Precise details will be announced by local Nintendo subsidiaries at a later date.
    The device has a screen that doesn't require the user to wear 3D glasses. Instead, a filter over the display splits the on-screen image and sends a slightly different image towards the user's right and left eyes, providing the illusion of depth.
    The February launch means the 3DS will miss the traditional year end holiday sales period. That didn't happen with the original DS and the later DSi.
    The launch date breaks with Nintendo's tradition, but that might not be a bad thing. Both Sony and Microsoft are planning to launch motion gaming systems in the final months of this year. An end-of-year launch would have meant all three games companies fighting for the attention of consumers. In February and March next year it should be considerably easier for the Nintendo to generate headlines and interest in the 3DS.

    The launch schedule also means that gamers in Europe won't have to wait so long for the device. The European launch date has typically trailed that for Japan and the U.S. by several months, but that won't be the case this time around.
    The DS was first launched in 2004 and has been revised several times. Nintendo had sold 132 million of the portable devices from the launch through June this year, but recently sales have been slipping. Between April and June this year, quarterly sales of the device dropped by almost half.
    Nintendo is hoping the 3DS will revive interest in its the DS.

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    Re: Nintendo 3DS to hit UK in March

    myself it just sounds like nintendo are trying to make an old thing new
    why bring this out?
    lets face it in what 6 years we have had the following
    nintendo ds
    nintendo ds lite
    nintendo ds lite with colour cases
    nintendo dsi
    nintendo dsi xl
    nintendo dsi xl with colour cases
    and now nintendo dsi 3d
    too many revamps
    to me same **** differant day
    but thats just my opinion

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    Re: Nintendo 3DS to hit UK in March

    As the only portable 3D games player, without the need to carry glasses as well, if it works properly, it will be a major step forward in portable gaming.
    That makes it a new games machine to me, instead of just the revamps and upgrades you mentioned billy?

    It could also be a forerunner to a larger 3D gaming console, like a 3D Ipad?

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    Re: Nintendo 3DS to hit UK in March

    ye i suppose mate but instead of doing another ds they should have done something bigger and better in my opinion - lets face it the ds has had it's day with all the ace card and r4 cards out there it will only be a matter of time that a new card will be in the shops and money lost again,
    i know r4 is now illegal to buy in the uk but still easy access if you look in the right places

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    Re: Nintendo 3DS to hit UK in March

    would have said the dsi screen is too small for 3d tbh as well as that with it being a touch screen that could also cause some problems, still would be nice to give it a go tho.

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