Awhat about the 2nd conference 1st 3rd parties games ?? what time ?

Games can use the OS.

It's probably use for multtasking.

.5 for OS mostly likely

.5 to be shared with games/online support

3ds uses somethings OS for games from what I remember.

I dont believe any of this, it's not from an anonymous source.

At any rate, the price reflects the rumoured $249/$299 scenario. The 2 SKU's sounds like a good idea, the RAM I'd be surprised if 1GB is for the OS ONLY (multitask at its extreme?), and the CPGPU sounds better than most of us were expecting!

Nintendo usually ends up optimizing the OS along the way and gives more to the developers. But basically they get to set aside resources with the OS for the MiiVerse integration and Network functions (Browsing etc) so the developers don't have to sacrifice something in their game's mechanics to get them work. (AI/Graphics) After optimization it may end up with 1.5GB for games and .5 GB for the OS.

AH! I THINK I GET IT!!!!

Maybe the reason the OS memory is so unnecessarily huge is so developers could use the asymmetric gameplay concept to the fullest by utilizing the other ~.5gig of "OS" memory( if they wish). So probably in a two player game where one person using the TV+wiimote/CCP and the other using the WiiUpad, they can have  separate data loaded on each ram for both players. E.g,  lets say if game like GTAV were to be one WiiU and support the asymmetric 2-player  gameplay thing, One player can enter scenes that require loading/streaming data (cutscenes, going inside certain buildings or being separated far away from the other player) and would not affect the other players experience.

Well hopefully this is the scenario.

Launch predictions:
$299 (or 269) and $349 in US/EU
December 8 in Japan (confirmed)
December 8 EU
November 18 US

Wow, +150 posts since the last time I logged in.

I can't believe that they are reserving a whole 1GB for the OS, it seems ridiculous.

About prices: The pad is expensive, more than I thought, but given the different price between Japan and the rest of the markets that some of you have already commented, I'll wait until we see our price to comment.

Hmmm Nintendo has a new customer if they give US 249/300 console

3DS just got another hundreds of thousands/million seller announced for this year in japan, thought it would be nice to share with you guys amidst this Wii U blitz!

Hmm, videochat while playing a game... interesting.

And that hub look a lot like MH... but I'm not holding my breath