whoops, sorry. guess i read that message wrong.

if it's as powerful as PSP.... pure epicness. really, that would be something. plus, it's in 3D!!! you know what this means, right?? Nintendo will ride the wave of cash for a few months, then get toppled when someone else bests it.

Most probably. And PSP aren't going to have 3D YET because Playstation are focusing on PS3 on having 3D first. (I read)

aha.... more reason to get a PS3

Based on what I've seen the 3DS is the definition of "Lets put everything we can into one system... MWAHAHAHA!"

Two outer cameras? Who needs that? Having one outer one and one inner one seems a little excessive.
No GBA slot again...
The 360 degree doo-hicky-majigger seems like a nice idea.

Overall, it's the child of the DSi, and I wasn't much of a fan of the DSi.

Thanks for mentioning this as I didn't want to plus I don't know that much about the DSi so I decided not to intervene(?)...

Yeah if anything...no matter how good or bad the 3DS does I know 1 thing for certain...that everyone of it's features are going to have a very good reason for being there no matter how anyone looks at it...

no, it'll only be great if the 3D works and doesn't cause mass seizures ({porygon} anyone?? great pokemon, bad episode....) or hurt everyone's eyes. if the 3D is an epic fail, then so will the 3DS. just saying.

You're being awfully pessimistic about this.

Well yeah, we'd have to wait and see if the ability to turn the 3-D down would make a difference. That's something the Virtual Boy didn't have.

Yeah, if it doesnt then there's always the option to turn it off. But i supppose if it hurt peoples eyes it wouldnt affect the majority because otherwise they wouldn't market it right? (They DO test before they stick it on sale i assume.)

And personally, i'm not very familiar with the VB myself but maybe the technology with it wasn't capable of changing the depth...

And i don't know for certain if changing the depth would decrease the 'strain?' on your eyes, it was just a thought.
AND...My parents said they'd give me the £20 deposit to take into my local GAME store to place a deposit on the 3DS next week...Wooooo!!

looking back on it, it could've been worded better. it was just a thought i had.
i forgot that you could turn down the 3D!! *facepalms* so it pretty much invalidates my point...
what i really want from the 3DS is good games. they're few and far between for the DS. and the Wii. and the GBA had that problem. if they have more lame games, i'm gonna be upset that i spent another hundred and little bit just to play three pokemon games and one other game. really. (okay,maybe a bit of an exaggeration... but once you beat layton, it gets boring!! tho it's a really good puzzle series)

Well, it is kinda grating to see stand-out games on the shelf like Pokémon or Mario Kart DS being crowded out by all these hundreds of misc. games and licensed movie/TV show games.

And then you go to say, an Xbox 360 shelf and you see nothing but all the popular and notable 360 games.

THIS
there's so many games out there for DS and Wii, but so many better-looking ones for PS3 and Xbox 360. I mean, really, do they just have guys who sit in a room making up stupid-ass games for nintendo?? or are their beta-testers just 3 year olds?? personally, i wouldn't mind less games as long as they were good quality. Not to say that PS3 and Xbox don't have crappy games, but they're more few and far between than the multitude that nintendo has....
But based off of the list of current confirmed 3DS games, that shouldn't really be an issue... *gets down on the ground and prays* jk

I think they should have just skipped the DSi and gone straight to the 3DS. I have a lite and a DSi, I am NOT getting the 3DS, even if the graphics will be up to par with the Play Stations and Xboxes. Even if regular DS games become obsolete because of it, I still have plenty of other games. I survived when GameBoy Color games were no longer made for at least 2 years before I got my SP. I survived without a Wii or GameCube until 2 years ago. When updated versions of the original Game Boy came out, did everyone jump for the Pocket, Lite, and whatever else there was before the Color? Usually not, just get one Game Boy and maybe a Color. The 3DS is really the fifth DS (including DSi XL), and I don't know anybody who would have 3 or more DS systems, accept for my friend who seems to have DS systems that break after a year, and might be getting her fourth soon, but that's beside the point. It's not as 'amazing' an upgrade of the DS as it was B&W to Color, in my opinion. Nothing is 3D unless it is really three-dimensional, not only in appearance. I liked it better when Nintendo had a new system every few years not every year or less.

I believe that after they finally release the 3DS that they will wait quite a bit longer to release a newer 3DS system then they did with the DS & pretty much every other Handheld Nintendo system ever released...

& to wonder...glad to have figured out who you were there WirelessBrain, does that name work better for you?...