Europe Dated, But Waiting on Official Price Point
This morning in New York, Nintendo revealed a $249 price point for its new handheld, the Nintendo 3DS.
Only two colors will be available at launch, blue and black, reports Kotaku. The core software bundled with the 3DS includes a Mii Maker, a pedometer for tracking movement, a couple small games, Internet browsing capability, 3D camera capability, DSi support, and more. Owners of a DS who want to transfer DSi purchases to the new console will be able to do so for most titles.
Nintendo will release the 3DS on March 27th in North America. The company expects 30 titles to be available for the handheld by the end of June; that includes Sega’s Super Monkey Ball 3DS but not the still unknown Sonic title infomally announced for the console during last year’s E3. Over in Europe, gamers can get their hands on it a couple days earlier on March 25th, but a price point has not been officially announced for the region. But CVG cites British retailer HMV marking the core console at £229.99, or more than $367 in US money.
To mark the formal 3DS announcement, Sega provided some more details on Super Monkey Ball 3DS, including a new trailer and screenshots. We’ll pass those along Thursday morning here.
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I’m totally excited for this. Still wondering what Sega will do with sonic on this system. But other than that, I’m super excited for Kid Icarus: Uprising, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time, and StarFox 64.
I have been thinking out it for a long time. Should I get it? I am having my Cambridge IGCSE finals in May of three papers and my father said that if I get A* or A in three of them he’ll get me a laptop. But at the same time I want a 3DS… which one?
^A laptop is more useful than any gaming system, go with that.
Can’t include me on this one, at least for now. I’m struggling to live with this economy, can’t afford that. I feel bad because my wii is on it’s way to breaking down. I’ve got one of those artifacting wiis with clusters of pixels on the screens. I have a damaged ps3, an a dreamcast, which is awesome. I want my wii fixed:( out of warranty.
Yeah, it looks awesome. Do I want it? Yes.
Am I going to spend $250 for it? Absolutely not.
Looks like I’m not going to be seeing this one for a while, unless someone decides to get me one, like they did with the DS Lite. But that was also way after its launch.
Oh well. Guess there’s always in-store displays
Not gonna buy it until Mega Man Legends 3 comes out.
@Blippa
Keep in mind that waiting for a price fall is useless.
The normal DS fell what? 20 bucks in 6 years?
@yvarL
Yeah…you are right, it’s just really expensive. I mean, the Wii launched for that price, while the DS launched at $150. Maybe they won’t be able to keep that price up so high for very long, as opposed to the DS. The Wii has already dropped to $200 and they even had Wal-Mart offering you a $50 gift card if you bought it at that price.
…Or maybe it’ll sell like hotcakes anyway and they can afford to keep it up, in which case, I’ll just have to wait until someone gets it for me. I’m too patient for my own good
The original Wii and DS were underpriced when they launched.
Nintendo could’ve been making so much more money had they had more faith in themselves.
Buying it!!!
I’m totally getting it, at some point down the road. Maybe either a Birthday present or Christmas present.
@Skai Cyan: Thanks. I will have to see about the games too. I’m a hardcore gamer, I am not getting a laptop without games.
@ Koolsk8ter111: Where do you live?