I think there are some more important numbers. First, how much can an iOS game earn on average, and the 3DS. Second, how much money is necessary to develop an iOS game on average, and the 3DS. It's surely that there are much more (with lots of them are low quality) iOS games, and very few famous exceptions that are big succes. But does that means iOS are really more profitable for general game developers?
Its also interesting to see that if iOS and 3DS can be compared as TV and movie.
Btw, I think we can ignore Vita in this discussion at this time

I'm angry with you, nintendolife. I'm sure you know Japanese, so why you cheat us on what the updates contain? It's easy to translate the webpage on the Nintendo website, and it's nothing about what you said. Your previous news for this topic is a lie (all the "evidence" can be easily explained if you play that game and know Japan), and you're just using another lie to hide your previous lie. Shame.

Unless the issue has been officially claimed by Nintendo, or at least reported by Japanese game media (not social or joke media), I believe that western media is cheated by those players. The screenshots mean nothing, because the gender of Mii has no relationship with the appearance, voice, personality, or clothes. (Everyone should know that you can create a female Mii with all male component in Mii Studio, since none component has gender porperty). This trick is commonly known for this game, so maybe it's just those players created this news.
Whatever, if it's true, it will be interesting to see what Nintendo will do.

@rjejr Special LL version for tomodachi colleciton (Bundle)

@3Dash It's more like a coincidence. The Japanese name of New Leaf is totally different (とびだせ, literally means "Jump out"), and New Life (新生活) is not an official English name (and it's not likely that it will have one in the future; or if it has, may be totally different, because there is no "old life" for western players).

FYI: This post is about the situation in China. Somebody may know that N3DSXL is call as I3DSLL in China (produced by Nintendo, but for certain law reason, released by another company with another name). Every I3DSLL is pro-installed with MK7 and SM3LD (you can find the news on this site), but there is no eShop on the console: there is no such online service at all. Thus, if you erase your games from SD card, there is no way to recover it. There is a rumor that if such thing happens, you can send the system back and they can install the games for you. However, since every system comes with that 2 games, they don't need to identify whether the games are tied to the system.

For the 2 modes, I think it has been mentioned in the dialog at least twice (one is friendship upgrade, another is dlc), that the debate of which one values more: achieve overall victory, or make everyone alive. Also, I refused to think that soft reset for classical mode is cheating or equals to casual mode: I just consider it as that whenever your unit dies, game over, so you need to reset. Therefore, the game forces you to consider how to save every single unit instead of just think about how to defeat enemies, and you can't use sacrifice as strategy.

I see lots of people want it be localized, but I doubt that's a good idea. The game failed not because the market, but because the game itself. After tried the demo version released few weeks ago, I would say the mechanics is too simple, which can make the game boring after first few stages. It's very likely that it will be another big failure if it get localized, or players who buy it will disappointed.

After reading the comments, I just find how stubborn are the players, refused to any type of change. Now I know why almost never-changed cod, fifa, and so on can have that great sales number.

I think there maybe 2 reasons why it doesn't sells well. 1. There are just too many characters, and I think for most of players, they just know a few parts of them. Altough maybe some your favorite ones are included, you may still concern that the rest of them that you may have no idea may ruin your experience. 2. Why there's no demo? The BDFF wins because they released 5 extremely high quality demos, so everyone know that it's a really great game, even it's a traditional jrpg. But for PxZ, nothing, so we don't know whether the gameplay is really interesting, and don't dare to spend the money.

@Tasuki If they want they can just modify the game a bit to make it possible to catch all pokemons (just as some mod versions). It will not harm the trading system because they can disable the trade between VC version and all other versions (or all other 4th and 5th generations).
What I really want is that they can improve the VC system for GBA, just like what they did for NES. However, it may be technically impossible.

Thank you for the review. I was thinking whether this tiltle can be competitive eought with Colors! 3D, but it seems not. The lack of 3D ability is essential, which means they have no way to reproduce the amazing artworks production by Colors! 3D. No easy way to share your work is another big problem, and DLC can be potentially pricy. I don't think for it worth 5 times, or 10 times for this weekend, as that of Colors! 3D.

Rather than the price itself, I'm more considering about if I can easily transfer a digital copy from one machine to another, which, currently, the answer is no. Imagine that I bought all title in digital form on 3DS, than 1 years later, I decide to buy a 3DS XL, or whatever further model, then I only have 2 options: either transfer everything to 3DS XL, and made 3DS useless, or do nothing, and thus can't play any old games on 3DS XL. Since I'm a pokemon fan, I think the ability to use one game card on different machines is essential when trading pokemons between different game versions.

I'll not consider it at all. It's just too large, and can't fit my pocket. There's nothing really attracts me for this XL. I'm still waiting for the really upgrade of 3DS(l/i) as my 2nd 3DS, same body size (but bigger screen), and whatever real functional upgrade.

I totally agree with this review. The biggest problem is just what is said in the review about navigation between different stations and that congratulation popup.

I also played the demo, and as a comparison, I need to say:
1): The demo has a noticable lag between orders, and that no longer happens in final version. However, when you enter the restaurant everyday, you still need to wait a long long time.
2): You will have much more gameplay than what's shown in the demo. Just have a look at the video and have some ideas.

I hope they can give an update to fix the 2 control problems (it should be very easy to fix, just a question of whether they want to). I also think that if demo is worse than final version, they should update their demo, otherwise it will be a negtive factor.

I think this is one of the best 3dsware so far, and the best drawing program I have ever used.

@GuardianKing
The worst case is that to transfer a pokemon from searcher to b2w2, you need one 3ds(for searcher) and one ds(or 3ds, for b2w2), and link between them. In that case, b2w2 can have no 3ds special feature.
However, at least, I hope that b2w2 can at least have the feature that while playing on 3ds, unlike other ds title, home menu can is still available, as well as all built-in network functions can still work. Otherwise I doubt I'd like to play it on 3ds.

It seems to be too expansive. What's more, I'm wondering whether the way of collecting pokemons is the same as previous one. I mean, if for certain pokemons, the only way I collect them is to find other players who own them, and trade face to face, then it's will almost be a mission-impossible considering no longer almost everyone will download it as its previous free version,

@FonistofCruxis Kingdom hearts is correct. Another one is Mario & Sonic at London.

I hope miku can be localized, that's really a good game with the cutest graphics of all 3DS title up to now.

I probably need to by another Japanese version hardware only for this game.

So disappointed for a DS game and not a gray version. The reason is
1. DS game means very little improvement. The game mechanics can't be changed too much for the compability wireless functions(battle, trade), and the graphics can't be improved due to the limit of that system.
2. Even for the DS game, if it's a single version, at least I can combine my 2 versions' data into 1, so it's still useful. But for 2 versions, I really can't find any significant reason that I need to have it.
3. It's very unlikely to have lots of new pokemons, so if it's not only an improved version but a sequel, the only new elements that I can imagine are new maps and npcs / stories. However, the main reason I play pokemon is not to learn the stroy or know some npcs, so it's nothing attractive.
To whom claim that you're happy the game being a DS game, can you really think about that why you want to waste your money on it? Don't say that only because it's pokemon.

The games in my list:
-Pokemon Gray, hope this is what recent press release said.
-Professer Layton vs Phoenix Wright, hope there will be NA version
-999 Successer, hope there will be NA version on 3DS soon, with a English name easy to speak and remember
-Paper Mario
-Tales of Abyss
-Fire Emblem, if there is NA version
And also some japanese titles that seem to be no way to have their NA version.
It seems that the biggest problem for me is that I don't know whether the games I like will be available in US.

What I really want is skype or whatever video chat app on 3DS. It can be the first major device that support 3d video chat.
Also, I hope that we can import data to the build-in note function, and can have more pages. Therefore, it's possible to directly import walkthrough / maps to the system.
Finally, I think if it is possible, nintendo may consider to bring onlive to the console, which will expand the game gallery a lot.

First, I hope there will be a Pokemon game.
Next, I'd rather to have few credits rather than only those chosen games.

One thing interesting is that Dead or Alive: Dimensions is not in the list, which was said to be released on the same day of 3DS launch. It is still said to be released on 3/27 on Amazon, Walmart, etc., but I doubt that after announcing this game line-up, Nintendo will ask this game to postpone its release date several weeks.

Drake, the 40/40 game is 428.The score for 999 is 36. Both of the games are developed by the same group from Chunsoft.