Picked up a 3DS yesterday.

Haven't played with it much, but it seems pretty cool.

My daughter loves it. The 3D effect is pretty good, but you do have to hold it "just so" to have it look its best, otherwise you get some 3D flicker/image overlap going on. Not really a problem since the best position is about what you'd naturally play it at anyway.

The coolest thing so far is the way it uses the camera to interpose stuff into the world.
My daughter fought a dragon that sprouted out of a hole on our coffee table. She had to walk around the coffee table so she could shoot it in the ass to kill it. Also a mini-golf/pool game had a little lava obstacle course sprout out of our carpet.

Fun stuff...

Sounds neat i am not buying one myself though haven't been that into handhelds. So it projects everything on the screen infront of it? Can you turn that off?

No it's this game built into it it called "AR games".

Basically the screen shows the real environment through the 3D cameras like you're taking a video (but in 3D).

Then it adds in graphics on top, that blend in to the real image. It does this in relation to distance, space and position. For example if you move closer to the table it's on the dragon gets closer and stays in scale. If you drop lower you can look at it face-on or move up above it to look down on it.

Basically it stays positioned and scaled correctly to the real environment around it and does a pretty decent job of it. You have to stay pretty close though... within 20 inches or so.

Another one had the table morphing, flexing and bulging with targets popping out of it that you had to shoot. Mini-game stuff like that.

yeah my friend got one for £220 at midnight release.

it was pretty cool, but he sold it (for £300 lol) a few days later because it gave him migraines

Lame, I'd sell it too in that case.
When did it launch over there?

Metalzoic wrote:Lame, I'd sell it too in that case.
When did it launch over there?

25th March. At about 37% more than it would cost in the US, I might add.

end of last week

Yeah... I think i'll wait a while before getting one. $250 for a handheld is a little much...

Is it? Seems like my PSP was 299.99, can't remember for sure. Wasn't the DS $199 when it came out?

Anyway I tried some Pilotwings... the 3D effect is actually quite a bit better than I was expecting. Has some fun little features too.

I'm really interested to see how they are, but I will wait and convince one of my friends to buy one. Then if it rocks I will follow suit.

the face raiders thing is hilarious.

at the end of each stage they try and warp your face to give the little dudes expressions. its so damn hilarious, its HERP DERP all over.

I am waiting on the map update and more games before I consider purchasing it. (will most likely wait for "lite" version)

Damn thing freaked out.
Touchscreen stopped working completely and most of the buttons and d-pad quit working unless you're in-game.

I can't figure out anyway to hard/soft reset the damn thing. Google is no help. Power cycling is no help. Pulling the battery while it's on is no help. I don't see a reset pin-hole anywhere and the manual says nothing about reseting it.

It does mention re-formatting system memory, but I can't even do that because the touchscreen and the d-pad aren't working. Been messing with it for an hour now... ANGER BUILDING

Metalzoic wrote:Damn thing freaked out.
Touchscreen stopped working completely and most of the buttons and d-pad quit working unless you're in-game.

I can't figure out anyway to hard/soft reset the damn thing. Google is no help. Power cycling is no help. Pulling the battery while it's on is no help. I don't see a reset pin-hole anywhere and the manual says nothing about reseting it.

It does mention re-formatting system memory, but I can't even do that because the touchscreen and the d-pad aren't working. Been messing with it for an hour now... ANGER BUILDING

Wow dude, already? jeez that sucks.

OK, now it's working again. My daughter pulled out Star Wars and put in Pilotwings and all of a sudden everything started working again.

What the hell...

Im gonna get on elater on in the summer like June or July.

You know, when more titles are out.

Yeah. Except for Street Fighter the launch lineup is pretty unexciting.

Maybe it doesn't like Star Wars. Not everyone is a fan (for some reason ).

I hate Star Wars.

With a deep fiery passion.

The Plutonian wrote:I hate Star Wars.

With a deep fiery passion.

Yet you like star wars battlefront??

Even though its Star Wars its still an amazing game?!? 0_o

The Plutonian wrote:I hate Star Wars.

With a deep fiery passion.

HEAAATHHHEENN!!!!

sheep wrote:Maybe it doesn't like Star Wars. Not everyone is a fan (for some reason ).

I think you're right. I have a feeling Star Wars glitched and froze the system until a different game was put in.

Silly thing...