Nintendo 3DS NFC Reader Pre-Orders Begin to Pop Up in the West

The white hockey puck of DLC

Meh

Please yes please release it already! I have 15 amiibo on my shelf, and I want to use them!

Nintendo, please fix your stock issues before releasing this thing...

What the? Where do you pour the syrup?!?

My Weegee amiibo and I are waiting since Christmas...

I'm not "reluctant" to upgrade my 3DS. I would do so in a second, just as soon as NoA released the non-XL size in NA.

Bet it sells out in minutes and is hard to come by.

Watch this be the Super Smash Bros. GameCube adapter in the beginning with the next month not even in stores

@ekreig Erm, that's the IR transciever, how else would you connect that thing to your 3DS? :/

More on subject - I'm reluctant to upgrade my release-bought Aqua Blue 3DS to any N3DS model because there is no reason to do so really. Absolutely none. I also doubt if I pick this thing up - amiibo is largely a miss for me and I don't really see a reason to use them on the go either...

That thing is both creepy and lame at the same time. Like it should use its HAL voice while your mother is tossing it into the trash. "Please don't throw me in the waste bin, I am made of plastic and should be discarded in the recyclables."

Did Nintendo find a way to 3DS or NNID lock it like they did w/ the Fit meter, or can my boys share it? They each have their own 3DS and copy of SSB and about 3 amiibo between them.

And $20 for a puck is crazy, they should bundle it w/ a game, or an amiibo for $20. Maybe they could make a bronze Mario to go with the gold and silver.

@MightyKrypto Knowing Nintendo... They might underproduce this item as well as the amiibo...

@rjejr
"And $20 for a puck is crazy..."
Seriously, rjejr? Are you trying to get away calling this thing a puck? You know well what this thing is! XD
Anyway, I wish we could use our GamePads as an NFC reader... I mean, why not?!

Ok, there is NO way this thing is actually worth $20. I bet they are making a big profit with them. That said, I'm still getting one because I refuse to upgrade to the new 3dsXL :/

I have no problem with the price, but seriously... why bother releasing this when you can barely find any amiibo's in stores.

Not preordering anything from target, will wait until it hits other retailers.

@Captain_Gonru - "unsync/resync process"

Yeah, like sharing a Vita, if you have 2 memory cards, and you all but wipe the whole thing back to factory default between each user. Piece of cake.

@rjejr

For someone who was incessantly asking for this to be released, you sound disappointed, but then again you are disappointed with 90% of things Nintendo do. They are making it big and expensive on purpose, so you buy a new 3DS instead.

Oh and Happy Birthday #8!

@VeeFlamesNL - "You know well what this thing is! XD"

I want to say diaphragm case but I'm afraid most people on here are too young to know what that is. Maybe if it were pink.

@rjejr I bet all the kids are googling it right now

@sinalefa - 90%? You must mean for the year, I'm about 98% negative since E3.

That portal is lame, Skylanders had a very cool one 4 years ago w/ the game and figure for around $50, making the portal basically free.

They should have made it look like a big amiibo base, or, you know, a green warp pipe like the 8 bit Mario amiibo. If they are going to sell it for $20 make it presentable, this looks like an add in. I just don't see anything here TO like.

Here's a birthday hint for your perseverance, in the form of a Jeopardy answer:
It's the day the whole world celebrates, except maybe the Soviet Union.

I want it... but I also want to get that mewtwo amiibo before it sells out.

@MightyKrypto Well, it's totally not because:
1. 3DS owners have amiibo
2. Some 3DS owners haven't upgraded yet.
Yup, it's totally not because of those.

I'm getting it from Play-Asia if you can use the thing for any region 3DS. I would upgrade to a N3DS, but there's just hardly anything that really intrest me for the N3DS besides the amiibo function. Put some VC games that only work for the N3DS (like GBA games, apparently) and more N3DS only games, then I'll have a real reason to invest in the thing.

Though, I guess having a c-stick would be nice if I played games like MH4, but I don't.

@skyyye This.

I was hoping the thing would come bundled with a game. Still, I'll finally be able to play Code Name Steam with Marth and Robin now!

Well there goes my allowance, prordering once i get home

i almost want to get it because it looks nice but $20 and i have to use AAs? meh

AA batteries? Seriously? What year is this? 2000?

I was tempted to trade-in the $90 3DS XL I bought for $100 store credit at GameStop to use toward the New 3DS XL, but didn't want to lose all my games. I have a Pikachu 3DS XL I bought for $200 I could sell for $200 still on Amazon, but again, while my New 3DS XL would be paid for, I would lose all my games and the used New 3DS XLs are already selling for less money than used Pikachu 3DS XLs.

Nice to see it starting to pop up, at least. My "new" old 3DS will benefit from this, if I could just get ahold of one...hopefully HHD will come with it?