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Dand on 26 April 2010

1)$150 - $170 (Nintendo is not stupid, it has to be accessible, anything over $200 is suicide(PsPGO))

2) DSi size at minimum and smaller than DSi XL

3) Those two you said aren't probable, but i think the new POKEMON Black/White will

4) Yes

5) Probably



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andremop on 26 April 2010

it'll cost 149,99

Nintendo would never make this more expensive than a wii.



Hydralisk on 26 April 2010

I'm guessing that these will be the prices by launch:

DS Lite: $99
DSi: $139
DSi XL: $159
3DS: $199



megaman79 on 26 April 2010
Mr Khan said:
johnappseed84 said:
I've heard (mayberumours?) that Nintendo will be releasing their new 3DS handheld later this year, and this has prompted me to wonder a few things about the new handheld.


1.) How much do you think Nintendo 3DS will cost on its release day? 200 or thereabouts. I think Nintendo's seen Sony's mistake in PSPGo pricing at the very least which would dissuade them from pushing beyond that. More = 300


2.) I really like the fact that DSI XL has large screens for a handheld. Do you think 3DS will keep the larger screens? Not that large, no. Apple's long bettery life will serve a lesson i think.


3.) Do yu think that some of the big DS games on the way like Okamiden and Golden Sun 3 will be further enhanced or optimized for 3DS? I think a game like Okamiden could take advantage of a 3d world. Doubtlessly some of them will, but not all. I would question Golden Sun 3 even coming for DS at this point, but who knows.


4. Will 3DS be compatable will all previous DS games? Wouldn't see why not. At least in the launch models, Nintendo's never gone without at least 1 generation of backwards compatibility in a handeld.


5. Do you expect connectivity between 3DS and Wii to be one of its features? I think connectivity was one of the best features of GC and GBA, and I'm not sure, but I think that kind of connectivity has been missing from the DS and Wii so far. Doubt it. That'll be the N6's job. There will def. be networking of some description. Now the graphics are almost comparable between the two.

 

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“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

HappySqurriel on 26 April 2010

1) $179

Nintendo does have some capacity to increase the price of the 3DS, but I believe it will remain in the $149 to $199 range; and $179 seems entirely reasonable.

2) No

The DSLite is about as large as a console can get and still fit in most men’s pockets and most women’s purses. While I wouldn’t bet on Nintendo releasing a dramatically smaller console than the DSLite I would think that they would be more inclined to shrink it (if they can) than to produce a larger console.

3) Probably not

I wouldn’t expect the functionality to implement 3D on the 3DS would be available to a Nintendo DS game; and this would mean that the target platform would have to switch to the 3DS for them to target this functionality. I do admit that there is a slight possibility that 3D Nintendo DS games might be able to take advantage of the 3DS’s 3D display; but I don’t think this is likely.

4) Yes

Backwards compatibility has been a big feature for Nintendo, and Nintendo has retained backwards compatibility when it was cost effective.

5) Its possible

I’m surprised that Nintendo hasn’t connected the DS and Wii yet because it seems like an obvious thing to do; but I wouldn’t be surprised if it hasn’t happened because Miyamoto, Nintendo’s internal developers and third party developers have shown little/no interest in this feature.



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Squilliam on 26 April 2010

Why can't people wait for E3 rather than being clueless and asking only slightly more clued up people their opinions. E3 is like 6 weeks away!



Tease.

megaman79 on 26 April 2010
Squilliam said:
Why can't people wait for E3 rather than being clueless and asking only slightly more clued up people their opinions. E3 is like 6 weeks away!

Its like Star Trek, we have to know these things.



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.

Squilliam on 27 April 2010
megaman79 said:
Squilliam said:
Why can't people wait for E3 rather than being clueless and asking only slightly more clued up people their opinions. E3 is like 6 weeks away!

Its like Star Trek, we have to know these things.

Theres already been enough technobabble. That should satisfy your desire for knowledge.



Tease.