80% Agree: “3DS Too Expensive”

As if I'd buy for this much.

It's not a giant jump but it's a step up. And it does have better hardware under the hood just to remind people. And another reminder is that is just the starting price. 1st gen ps3 in 2005 was $500 now the're $300. Realy it's just paying more to get one sooner.

Maybe not you, but you're forgetting those otakus who'd just about buy anything, especially when their Love Plus girls are ported for 3DS...

It's not a giant jump but it's a step up. It's a bit bigger under the hood too. It will get cheaper with time. Realy it's just paying more to get it sooner.

And what does an iPhone cost if you're only buying that, and not an operator so that you can call with it?

You need 120 fps to achieve any 3D affect and with the hardware specs on the new device I highly doubt I can run any quality game at 120fps, enjoy your pixelated 3D boobs.

The technology producing those 3D LCD touch screens is what probably is making the prices so high.

The 3D effect comes from the screen and just the screen. The 3D effect only works if you look at it straight on witch is why it's not used in other commen formats like for the tv or movie theater, witch is why it works for a handheld system. Just one screen is the 3D screen and it's the top one and it does not double as a touch screen.

Fps does not make a 3D effect. Its one eye seeing something and the other seeing the same thing just off center. The screen splits the light from the image so the light is going left and right NOT straight out like all other screens out there.

You dont need 120fps...

For shutter glasses a 120hz (not fps) monitor would be nice, for both eyes to get 60hz, so it doesnt flicker.

3DS works differently.
http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/214520/how-the-nintendo-3ds-3d-works/

Btw, 25fps are enough for human eyes.
Even if it had to render different frames for both eyes, 50fps would be enough. ^^

last time i cared enough to look into the iphone like that, it was about 800+ without provider...

just looked it up,

600 got 16gb
700 for 32gb

@alidan

Ipod touch is the same thing just with on service at all and those are like $300 for a 32gig. And I mean EXACTLY the same thing.

Will Sony make a psp2 or psp3D this expensive too?

Sony will wait to see how well the 3DS sells at these prices before deciding that.

Remember when first PS3 came out?
$599 $599 $599 $599 $599 $599 $599 $599 $599 $599 $599 $599 $599 $599 $599 $599 $599 $599

but the PS3 had Giant Enemy Crabs

Yes the ps3 was $599 when it came out. Now it's 300 or so for a 240gig.

"Btw, 25fps are enough for human eyes."

No. 25 frames in a movie with frame interpolation and 25 frames in a videogame is completely different.

I wish people would stop spreading this utter nonsense. 25 frames is absolutely not enough for an interactive medium. 30fps on consoles make me sick.

so 3DS customers are sony money testers

Anonymous
22:33

please go and fuck yourself as hard as you can till you bleed.

30fps is enough for a slow paced game.
60fps is enough to play a fps and not be able to bitch about dieing due to hardware problems
120fps is the ideal to reach with competitive gaming
60fps is also the ideal to play a driving game at.

what you are referring to is hz, as in 60hz monitor or 120hz monitor.

back with the ps1 and n64 it was common for games to only hit 10-15fps.

If the line-up of games are good, then the price is right...

That said, we will NEVER ever get any ecchi games here in the western world or even a Love+ game...

Ugh...I guarantee we'll have a crapload of party/family games and ones based on sh*t 3D family movies...

*sighs in sadness*

If the line-up of games are good, then the price is right...

That's all that matters to me...

That said, we will NEVER ever get any ecchi games here in the western world or even a Love+ game...

Ugh...I guarantee we'll have a crapload of party/family games and ones based on sh*t 3D family movies...

*sighs in sadness*

An English game is not the only alternative to problem, you could probably learn to read Japanese in half the time it takes any company to translate one of those games.

Butttt your probably too busy touching yourself, faggot.

Talking about 3D boobs with 300 buks I can get at least 3 dates with real hookers and get the real deal.

i'll just be over here being the only human left on the planet that doesn't give a shit about all this 3D novelty bullshit.

@Anonymous 01:23 13/10/2010

Haha, touché...

Yes...Yes I am too busy fapping...

(Also, I'm beyond faggot since my hentai fetishes go beyond what is considered faggotry...)

*adds a positive to Anon*

alidan
23:57

Why so butthurt over a different opinion?
Anon prefers high framrates. I prefer high framerates too. Did he hurt your feelings by stating it?

Just because you feel ok with 10 fps it doesn't mean everyone with higher expectations should go and "fuck yourself as hard as you can till you bleed."

There are intelligent ways of stating disagreement.
Grow up.

PSP launched for $299.99 in North America. What's with all the hate on the 3DS? I seriously don't get it.

I call it the Nintendo tax

Remember when the original Xbox came out? Nearly a grand man. Nearly a grand.

Are you fucking kidding me?!! This thing costs the same as a ps3 and its barely more powerful than a psp!!! the main reason most people plan on buying it is for zelda and mega man leg 3. I also hate to say this but I have a feeling that nintendo is going to try and rape us even more by setting the price of 3DS games around at least 40$ usd. fuck all the butt hurt 3D faggots!

Anonymous 18:43: Yes, how dare we buy a system for the games on it rather than the power of the system.

tl;dr but to people above, Nintendo's portables have always run at 60fps. Games at 125fps+ do have uses, but I won't go into detail.

Sychone

i hate people spreading stupid like that. frame rate and monitor refresh rate are 2 different fucking things entirely.

you can play a 10fps game, as i gave as an example, and not feal shit so long as what ever you are playing it on is refreshing at 60+ hz (depending on monitor type)

More like employee without the 's', voted "too cheap" for 10 times :P

Those weren't Nintendo employees, they were Nintendo shareholders.

just watch, in 1-2 years, you will have smartphones that can do everything the 3DS can, but with more power and versatility(well not on the dual screen issue). I can imagine a smartphone with a 3D screen and very powerful parts in it. Nintendo really feels like a dying company, it doesnt feel like they are really taking a look at the big picture.

That just reminds me of "The Conduit" that Wii game that they touted as "having graphics that can rival a 360/ps3 game" its sad when you put that as your selling point... and the game wasnt even very good... and they never lived up to their claims on graphics either, the windows just had pictures put about 2 feet out to make it seem like there was stuff outside... come on... its not like they were even trying at that point... a very sad attempt by a Nintendo game to get back into the hardcore genre and back in line with the rest of the competition. true that graphics is not everything that makes a game, but the graphics in this game just made it feel like the developers werent even trying hard at all, plus the game wasnt even very fun either. the game just disappointed me so much that i just gave up and put down the controller after about half of it, i was getting a headache from how annoyed i was at the game.

RIP Nintendo, you had a good run, we will remember Mario, Link and other iconic video game characters.

Ah, another jackass predicts Nintendo's doom. Do people ever learn?

Are you dreaming, Elc, or...? Do you even realise the stupitity of what you just said?

Ghost Dog took the words right out of my mouth...

My shares says your wrong. (:

Oh, yes, I love playing games on my iPhone. I gotta cover up 40% of the screen with my fingers to be able to actually control what's going on and constantly worry if some jackass is going to interrupt my gaming session with a text message or a phone call.

Dedicated handheld gaming devices will never die off, for the same reason MP3 players haven't, even though every single cellphone can play mp3 files nowadays.

i never said anything about the PoS known as the iPhone. and people that have a smartphone no longer use an MP3 player if they have a half decent phone, my Android phone replaces pretty much everything i would normally carry around with me, watch, camera, mp3 player, PDA, etc... seems like you are a couple years behind the loop here, the trend is integrating everything into fewer objects. think about it, would you rather carry around 10 devices or just one that is the same size as a single one of the 10 and having that single device able to do everything those 10 individual devices can do just as well? efficiency is a good thing, and with microprocessors and electronics in general getting more and more miniaturized, eventually smartphones can replace even laptops in the foreseeable future.
there will be phones geared towards gaming in the near future, just look at the newer Samsung smartphones right now, they have crazy power both processor/memory wise and graphics wise. so if you have any idea how the markets are shifting, you would see that Nintendo needs to rethink their strategy. come back to me in 10 years, i say theres a good chance Nintendo would have gone bust by then the way Sega did. its not me hating on Nintendo, its just what i deduce from looking at the market and predicting likely future trends and how Nintendo is handling itself right now.

Holy fucking paragraph structure and sentences that end Elc.
Do you know them?

When people type like that, I assume they have nothing of value to say.

@Elc
Lol, smartphones replace laptops. Yeah right. I look forward to writing a 20 page long essay on a pocket-sized device! That sure will be comfortable and will not kill your eyes for sure!
Browsing flash-heavy webpages that won't scale on a small screen properly sounds good too!
Hey! Maybe smartphones will replace microwave ovens and refridgerators in the near future as well! Man, I love technology.

Now seriously, with the current size of cellphones and mp3 players, I really see no problem carrying them separately. I can fit both into one pocket and they don't even stick out. Besides, it's cheaper to buy a good cellphone and a mp3 player than a smartphone that you'll never use to it's full extent anyway.
Also, smartphones are multipurpose, yes, but gaming on a handheld device that has no buttons and requires you to instead press stuff on-screen isn't particularily welcome in my book. Besides, button configurations will be limited, on a DS you have 2 bumpers, 4 buttons and a D-pad +start/select. Please tell me how would you fit those on a small screen without obstructing everything and making controls horrible.