Nintendo 3DS is a handheld game console from Nintendo which can produce 3D effects. Unveiled at E3 2010, it is the successor to Nintendo DS and is backward compatible with all DS and DSi games.
We have not designed Nintendo 3DS and Wii U to be mere improved versions of their predecessors... We have designed them so that they can realize what has been impossible.
This new Fire Emblem: Awakening trailer shows off some amazing cut-scenery and game play for the upcoming 3DS tactical RPG. Awakening is the first original entry in the Fire Emblem series since 2007. There's no word on a North American release yet, but it'll be out in Japan in April and arrive in Europe before the end of the year! [Via Tiny Cartridge]
In a recent blog post at Kotaku, the question is posed: is Nintendo releasing a 3DS Lite?. A more apt question would be when is Nintendo releasing a 3DS Lite? Nintendo has released updated versions of every single handheld it has ever produced: Game Boy got both a Pocket update and a Light version, Game Boy Advance was retrofitted into a folding SP and later scaled down to Micro size, and Nintendo DS got a sleeker, slimmer Lite followed by an i and an XL. Not counting the six years between the original Game Boy release and Pocket update, Nintendo has retrofitted its handheld hardware within two years on average (GBA 2001, SP 2003, Micro 2005; DS 2004, Lite 2006, DSi 2008, DSiXL 2009). Read on
I know the 3DS is fighting a tough fight, but a samurai should never pick an easy fight. I want to participate in the fight to turn the tide of battle.
Nintendo will release GBA games for 3DS Ambassadors in Japan this Friday. The same games are expected1 to follow overseas on the same day, but Nintendo hasn't yet confirmed this. Besides the five previously confirmed games (Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Metroid Fusion, WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$, and Mario vs. Donkey Kong), the five newly announced games are:
