Yeah true. I rarely use the 3d effect. It makes my eyes hurt. So my niece's. The dual screen isn't really needed! So many would much prefer a PS VITA with 3ds software. Why they dont join forces? Dont they see that the price of software is ridiculous? And still Nintendo doesn't really understand why they fail big in Europe.Its better deal to buy 50 ipod touch or ipad games to your kids than one 3ds game. .

Its on the stores in Europe. Wonder if its an upgrade or we should wait another year to get it.

Is the guy knocking the door the real Mario?

Its more a publicity stunt. But they are cute.They seem sincere enough so best of luck to them.

Why, why, why on DS? Gameboy Advance is still alive and kicking! I dont think that the game developers took full advantage of its true technical capabilites till now

Nintendo's biggest hit in last 20 years was Pokemon. It even sells more than Mario (with some exceptions). That wasn't Miyamoto's baby. Miyamoto only gave us Nintendogs. Nice commercial move but not something for core gamers. Pikmin was ok but lets face it a commercial failure. (i want a pikmin 3ds though). And age is always a factor. I mean Rolling Stones (the rock band) are still great at their 70's but nobody expects a great new album from them.

Great idea how nobody see it coming? A 2d Mario title. Wonder how it will turn out. It will surely sell loads. I cross my fingers for a Pokemon RPG announcement now. Never a dull moment with Nintendo.

If the gameplay is better and more fun than world of warcraft (something extremely dificult) then i would pay montlhy fees for new Dragon Quest.

Let's be honest. I like Toriyama's design but the graphic engine looks dated even compared to 7 year old games. This is Guild Wars at 2005...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgyS_-HiD54
Still its the gameplay that matters. Hope its great.

Probably the 3ds will be some Dragon Quest Monster spin off... I love my Wii but i hope Dragon Quest X (or XI?) will come to 3ds.

English subs>dub. I hope for a new Final Fantasy rpg (not tap-tap game) or Dragon Quest or Monster Hunter or all of the above. Persona 4 port is coming to Vita (although its just a ps2 port) .

The 3ds got a war to fight ahead. Lets hope Mario Kart and Land will do their "magic" once again. But thats not enough. Can't wait for the new announcement.

Rumor and speculation: Dragon Quest X is moving to 3ds (from Wii). Expect world first screenshots and video game footage.

Nintendo bought Square-Enix? A Pokemon MMORPG in Wii u? A version of Unreal Engine 3 mobile running on 3ds or a new graphic engine for Wii U? One can only hope.

P.S: I love my ipad 1. With a keyboard it can be near as good as a netbook/laptop on many levels. On other levels its much better (with far more restrictions ofc). But in general a really expensive nice multimedia device with affordable software.

@mariofanatic128 You've got a point but outside Fragile Dreams the other titles are hybrids (strategy/management/sim). Quality games all of them, but still far from enough. If only we had Dragon Quest X sooner things could be different. Western RPG's like Mass Effect, Dragon Quest series are great games too. I just hope we will get more RPG's in Wii U. Why can't Nintendo make some new 1st party RPG IP?

@Widdowson91 I dont think that in general jrpg's sell better in Europe than the states. At least according to tracked sale figures, depends on the platform again. I can't remember a jrpg (or rpg) that make good sales in Wii in general though. (were there any decent ones outside Monster Hunter Tri - or Tales of Symphonia?), That is one of the biggest issues more "traditional" gamers have. Hope Nintendo understand there's a market for it outside Japan, even if its not Final Fantasy. I wont buy Wii U just to play new Zelda (in 4 years) and Mario's and Zumba Fitness 2 again.

The sales were very good. The game is already localised in English. Reggie just need to publish it, the cost is minimum. (Ofc it would hurt to do a little lip sync). We want all wii and 3ds rpg's in english.

Another thing. New love plus with the right advertisement can sell very well in west. How they know that love sims arent popular if they never publish them?

Well in super NES era north american's had Earthbound, we europeans had Terranigma so there was a balance. Japanese bastards have even more games
As of Xenoblade english version In most cases i prefer the original Japanese dub from american one but its really nice to have british accent in a game. I will def buy this game when i get my salary at the end of the month.

Nice review but its too early to talk about death of the console: New Zelda, Xenoblade, Last Story, Pandora's Tower, and we still wait for the ultimate release: Dragon Quest X. Best year for Wii gamers in Europe. Yes sales have slowed down but are far from dying. Check the game charts, wii still hold all top spots. Still there's lack of support from Nintendo and VLC releases

Earthbound

Stockmarkets ruined everything. Now the stocks of the no1 videogame company in the world are in the lowest level of six years. Big lol. I dont care what "games" with the stocks the "golden boys" are playing but Nintendo was the absolute marketing phenomenon of the past six years. Are they out of their bloody minds? Wii and DS sold like 250 million units in an industry that even surpassed the movie industry! I dont give a flying crap about what these "investors" are planning. We're talking about guys like George Soros, the most high profile of all these market sharks that made over US$1 billion profit in one day by short selling sterling in 1992! Video games and nintendo are here to stay.

I will definitely buy The Last Story. I'm sceptical about Pandora's Tower, its not a RPG and i read mixed reviews, so we'lll see.

@Anotheralex_x In my country at least there are games for 51 euro..so 102 euro are more than half of the current price of 3ds.

3ds ratio, game software sold/console is only 1,72, Wii is 7.87 and PS3 is 7.86. The price of two 3ds games is more than half of the value of the console. Thats very expensive. Ofcourse its still the start of 3ds lifecycle and not many good games are out but still the price of the software need a pricecut as well.

I really hope Xenoblade will get decent sales. Even if its the worst time of the season i mean its dead season till 10th of September. Smaller shops even close for few days during mid-August in Southern Europe.

By the way: Sony of Japan is continuing a series of surveys at the japanese PlayStation Vita community site. They opened a question asking readers what peripherals they want for the platform.
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/08/15/vita_peripherals/

Will Nintendo do something similar or they only care about low sales?

Graphics and animation are Gamecube level. Square is just the publisher they didn't make the game.

No girls play this game?

@Pure Trainer I love my Gamecube but its total sales are less than 22 million units, less than any other major Nintendo console. For Nintendo thats a big failure not a success.

Resident evil 4 on 3ds would be great, but a gamecube not an iphone port! It doesn't even have to be 3d. But yes i agree that software prices are too expensive as well. Take Dr. Kawasima's brain training series. It was a major hit at ds but after android and ios people wont pay 35 dollars/euro for this crap even if its on 3d.

Yes a mini Mario game for 99 cents would sell loads but that wouldn't be as profitable for Nintendo. By the way platform games DO work on iOS only if there's only one action like jump and automove. Nintendo should focus on making better games for 3ds and wii u. Maybe launch a more "mature" franchise. Actually 3ds could be great with more educational titles, like 3d zoo, and other things for kids. If both 3ds and wii u flops worse than Gamecube then we will have this discussion again. But i dont think they will.

Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Survivor Overclocked is just a DS port. I love the series, specially the Persona titles. I would buy hands down Persona 4 remake or a new exclusive Persona on 3ds but not a DS game with cutscenes with ....voice?? Who cares about that?

Edit: Ah, its on 3d thanks for the reply. Well if i had to buy one of these titles i would go for this one anyway.

Star Fox 64, well another Nintendo 64 classic remake with added 3d effects, why they couldn't make a new game? Still a good one.

I will buy Xenoblade but i'm not very optimist about sales in Europe. Check how much Golden Sun 3 (in ds but still) sold in Europe and how much in US. Now even Monster Hunter Tri sold like 200k in Europe. Xenoblade isn't nearly as well known. A Xenoblade flop will be bad for european users as well. The last story>pandora's tower

140.00 GBP=159.571 Euro. Still wonder if they will sell it more than 170 euro in rest of Europe.

DS models sold another 10k units next to 16.415 of the 3ds. With 3ds to be near same price as DS after the price cut there will be a huge sales boost. I expect 3ds to go more than 100k in japan the first week after the price cut.

Hope the price is not more than 250 euro...With some killing AAA titles at launch it can crush the competition.

Well 2d Mario in Wii sells more than double than the 3d parts so that should give big N some hints. Same thing in DS. Nintendo was always gameplay over flashy tricks. Look at "Time traveller" 1992 arcade game for holo experience. Very impressive at the time but unplayable. The first half-life game can make you ten times more dizzy than the 3d effect of 3ds. Just run at full speed at a modern computer.

Nintendo is not a charity organization, its a huge multinational corporation. I love japanese culture but this isn't a honest open letter, its just another P.R press release. Ok, i like Nintendo but its not a religion or a football club. What about 10 free DS games instead of GBA ones?

Is the Street Fighter on 3ds better than the DOA title? I will wait until more fighting games come out before i make up my mind. I wont pay for any of those atm

Nintendo and Sony specially in portable market are facing a new reality. Things wont be easy for either of them. Nintendo will make up from the price cut from software sales anyway. In my opinion its the price of software that needs to be cut too. There will be far more sales this way. 20 dollars/euro is a fair price for 90% of the titles. 30 euro is fair enough for high budget titles like Mario, Pokemon, Final Fantasy etc. And some of us are not anymore teenagers/college students, so we would appreciate more "mature" titles. I don't have a 3ds yet. I plan to get one now, but still there's no software to support it. The only game i really want to play is Resident Evil Revelations.

@rapadash6 is right. If Apple and Sony give you universal access to all their library why can't Nintendo provide that? Nintendo should provide their entire back catalogue online (new titles too). I want Dragon Quest and Kid Icarus

3d was the last thing we needed from Nintendo. Mario in 2d sells still more than double than the 3d versions. Can't nintendo drop the prices on DSi XL and DSi as well? 3ds remind me a little of this holographic game, time traveller. I kinda like the 3d effect, its cool, but it was not needed.

Anyone else find pit's voice annoying? I know he's a kid and all but still...I would prefer japanese voice over

Oooh, poor Nintendo shareholders. I don't feel sorry for these guys at all. The employers will be the one that will pay the price as always. Cause Miyamoto may lose 30% of his salary but many people will lose their jobs and their ability to feed their family. Nintendo stock value will grow again strong.

I will get

Wii: Xenoblade, Skyward Sword for 2011, Last Story for 2012
3ds: Hm....maybe i will wait for Kid Icarus.

Nintendo DS had new ip like Nintendogs and Brain Training that took advantage of the DS prime power, the controls. For people that own like 4-5 or more versions of Mario games is Kid Icarus re-boot enough? I think not. 3ds need some decent RPG's

Don't leave price at the hands of retailers.
Nintendo should understand that software need a price drop too....If Mortal Kombat on iOS is fun at 0,99 cents (even with crappy controls) and a full Square RPG like Chaos Rings is just little more than that then you need to make games 40 times better to justify the price. We're not at 2004 and "itouch" and ipad is an upgrade of the "touch generation" experience. Ok maybe Mario Cart and Pokemon Violet worth full price but most other titles dont.

Super Mario tennis was fun, Golden Sun 1&2, pokemon Firered (although i still want a Pokemon Yellow special Pikachu edition 3ds remake).

Why 170 dollars and 180 euros ffs. 1 euro =1.4446 dollars... Why europeans have to pay so much more than the americans? We got major financial crisis especially in hm..south and we still get to pay more. Anyway its still ok i guess... but still the software sucks..and no just more Mario and some Pit wont save the deal. Get some original JRPG's and not just remakes. And get a western release to some dating sims like new love plus wont hurt you know....

Corbs you worry too much....You think Miyamoto's children will not have money for ramen now? They can afford to sell even at a loss for years.