Nintendo’s latest promotional event for the upcoming 3DS reveals plenty of last minute detail, not all of which is being greeted favourably.
The latest round of announcements coincided with a hands-on event in Chiba which saw some 500 souls braving the chill…
Most notably, Nintendo is saying the device’s batteries will only last for 3-5 hours in normal gameplay (5-8 with DS titles), and take 3.5 hours to recharge. By way of comparison, the PSP is rated at some 4-6 hours.
This, coupled with the various dire warnings about the 3D screen causing blindness and eye cancer in little children, has served to take some of the lustre off the otherwise outstanding hardware on offer.
The 3DS itself is due on the 26th of February, for ¥25,000 – other regions get it slightly later, in March and at about $300.
The (Japanese) release line-up is also attracting opprobrium – only 8 titles are on offer, retailing around the ¥5,000-¥6,000 mark:
Most of the other top titles are dated 2011 “spring” and beyond – and MGS, Biohazard, DoA and Zelda are all undated save for “2011.”
Its likely success does not really seem to be in doubt, but without so much as a Mario title the launch does appear to be rather weak…
Wow, BlazBlue? Really? That’s quite attractive. Though for the battery life is REALLY putting me off.
Wow I thought I could always count on Nintendo for a decent ammount of battery life. Most of these launch titles look s♥♥t aswell, apart from Street Fighter and Blazblue.
Oh well I’ll just wait until the inevitable upgraded model comes out. By then there will hopefully be more decent games, why isn’t Metal Gear one of the launch titles?
im waiting to see if DOA dimensions is good
a spare battery would help but you can’t replace it while something is playing a time you can’t access a save command.
A game that doesn’t let you reach a save point in 15 minutes or less is a game with bad design.
as always nintendo sucks and sony has the upper hand xD. Serioulsly talking now, hope they fix that of the screen and battery problem on the future releases of 3DS
Since when has Sony ever had the upper hand in the handheld gaming market?
Their PSone against Sega Saturn?
Although it’s not handheld game console but they also beat Nintendo 64 in the market.