Anyone Springing for a 3DS?

[Vigo]

3DS is almost here. 

While I am really excited about the the system, I am a little disheartened by the price point and the battery life of only 3 hours. I think I'm gonna hold out until the next revision comes out. 

[ark_ader]

I looked at getting one, and then my CC bill arrived.

Oh well. 

[bobotech]

Not excited in the least.  I can only use one of my eyes at a time, no depth perception or 3d vision so the 3ds and any 3d movie is lost on me.  Looks no different than normal.

[Dazz]

Mine is pre-ordered and paid for.  I just have to pick it up from Gamestop and then run over to Toys R Us for their buy one 3DS game get the other half off special on Sunday.

[Howard_Casto]

Not excited in the least.  I can only use one of my eyes at a time, no depth perception or 3d vision so the 3ds and any 3d movie is lost on me.  Looks no different than normal.

Compared to the ds, (or even the psp) it's a real beast in terms of hardware specs.  And unlike the psp, it has nintendo, the king of portable software, backing it.  The 3d is a gimmick and it has next to nothing to do with the worth of the system. 

Mind you the psp2 is coming out... but it'll have crappy sony games on it.

[Howard_Casto]

I'm going to wait.  I'm thinking by christmas or manybe even next spring, the game catalog will be a lot better. 

I didn't get my ds until the 3rd or 4th year because of the lack of a "killer app" but once nsmb came out I was all over it.  I figure the 3ds will be no different.  I'm guessing once Kid Icarus or something cool is released I'll be all over it. 

[versapak]

I love 3D (gimmick or not), and I love the DS, but I have absolutely no interest in the 3DS at that price point, especially with that horrendous battery life.

[bobotech]

Compared to the ds, (or even the psp) it's a real beast in terms of hardware specs.  And unlike the psp, it has nintendo, the king of portable software, backing it.  The 3d is a gimmick and it has next to nothing to do with the worth of the system. 

Mind you the psp2 is coming out... but it'll have crappy sony games on it.

Well I will have to wait and see.  I'm usually very late in adopting portable gaming systems.  I only got my first DS about 1 1/2 years ago and only have like 5 games for it.  Same with the PSP.   I will probably wait a couple of years until the price drops quite a bit.

[Samstag]

I'm waiting till a portable version comes out.

[Malenko]

I'm going to wait.  

If they cant get the biggest ---smurfing--- Nintendo fanboi ever to buy it, why should I?

[Samstag]

$250?!

I can get an iphone for $50!

You'll save even more if you buy 10.

[Vigo]

I don't really think of the 3D so much as a gimmick this time around since it is incredibly simple to make most modern games viewable in 3D, it pretty much just takes displaying 2 camera different angles to produce the effect, many PC games have this capability already. I'm actually really pumped about the 3D since it is depth adjustable.

I can't see the 3DS really taking of like the DS did, unless they are able to come down $75-100 and fix the battery issue. The DS was only $150 when it came out.

[joeH]

I had one pre-ordered from Amazon until I tried one at Best Buy with the Pilotwings demo.  The 3D was pretty rough on my eyes, and I had to stop after about 5 minutes of playing. The launch titles do nothing for me either.

I'll probably pick one up when Mario or Zelda are released...but I think I'll be stuck playing them in 2D.  At least the screen got a healthy bump in resolution.

[Epyx]

I will eventually get both a 3dS and PSP2 but one valuable lesson I have learned about Nintendo, they punish initial adopters...Gameboy advance? Yep got the clunky 1st gen beast...DS? Yep got saddled with the clunky 1st gen beast...I think Ill wait for Mark 2 and its improved battery life, screen vibrance and whatever other upgrades they throw the people who wait

PSP2 I will likely get right away. Both systems are going to have games I like.

[Howard_Casto]

I'm going to wait.  

If they cant get the biggest ---smurfing--- Nintendo fanboi ever to buy it, why should I?

I'll go over this again.  I am NOT a nintendo fanboy.  Nintendo just happens to make superior first party games and for some reason 50% of the gaming population are haters and I have to come to the defense of such quality work.

Trust me, when M$ or Sony make a fun, perfectly polished, FIRST PARTY game I'll be all over it.  They just haven't yet.  Most of the 360 and pc games I like are third party, and thus they don't fall into "console war" debate. 

I'm a huge fan of Ubisoft, for example.  With the exception of (ironically) their crappy nintendo-based titles, I don't think they've ever made a game that was less than fantastic.

It would be fair to call me a Midway/MK fanboy though.  I still say mk4 was a good game and I still like midway's pacman sequels better than namco's! 

[Malenko]

awww slugger, it's ok to be a fanboy. Im an XBOX360 fanboy, why bother denying it?