Kimiko

Shut up and take my money ^_^

Oh, wait, I have a N-American 3DS.. Well, hurry up and release this in N-America then so I can import it.

Why is the CM "naturally" in Spanish? Is that some kind of in-joke that I'm missing?

More third-party RPGs please. So far only Etrian Odyssey IV is trying to convince me that importing a 3DS was worth it.

Etrian Odyssey IV of course. Even though I'll have to import a N-American 3DS for it.

Will you be doing this feature over on PushSquare as well?

How about some older Phantasy Star titles?

Risky's Revenge was pretty cool, if a little hard at times. Looking forward to another reason to buy a 3DS.
Will the game come to Europe too? Or should I just go with an imported N-American 3DS?

I'll be buying the Vita version too (and a Vita to play it on). It's good to read that doesn't have this bug.

Class Of Heroes/II looks much better to me. Still, it might be interesting once I get a 3DS next year for Etrian Odyssey IV.

Two friends of mine work in bookstores. Now I'll be able to pretend to be them

It looks like Phantasy Star, manga-style. Interesting. Pity it won't be translated. I tried the PS:P 2 Infinity demo, but my Japanese is too weak to be useful

I can't even tell what's going on in the gameplay parts of that video. How about some explanatory text, Circle?

The music does sound good though.

Ah, that takes me back. Learning to program in BASIC was so much fun
And what is this about translations? We didn't need no silly translations back in the '80s. Spoiled kids these days.
Just start with 'Hello World' and go from there. Every time you learn something new (be it from seeing others' code or from your own mistakes), you can use it to make new fun things. Once you figure out some graphics and sound there is just so much to combine and try. And I'm sure today's (3)DS has much more to explore than those old C64s and Ataris and PCs.

Twenty years? And they still don't allow girl-girl or boy-boy romances.. shakes head sadly

Finally. Now I'll be able to get a 3DS when the right games appear (SQ4 for example).
Any details on the European date yet?

Booooo!

It's been a year already? That went by pretty quick then.

Most important point for me: There still aren't any Must-Have games out for the 3DS. And so I don't have one yet. Looking over your 'coming soon' list of games, only Fantasy Life looks like it will be a reason to buy a 3DS. Etrian Odyssey IV will be anyway, but that hasn't been announced for not-Japan yet.

One thing I'd like to read about is how far along people are toward making the 3DS region-free. As a European gamer I'm used to importing practically all my games, either from N-America or Japan. It'd be kinda cumbersome to have to buy two or three consoles.

I wish I were good enough to play something like this. Alas, in the first Nanostray game I couldn't even make it through the first level..

I'm still waiting for the purple 3DS they showed at E3 2010.

Still waiting for that pretty purple 3DS. Come on, Nintendo.

We're finally getting to the nicer colors. Do that purple 3DS you showed at E3 2010 next please, Nintendo.

There's going to be a sequel? Ooh, I'll have to check that out. Yet another reason to buy a Vita soon

And yes, this game definitely deserves a 9/10 rating. It's kept me playing (trying to figure who is who and what the options are at each point of the story, etc.) for days, in between replays. Not many games keep you playing even after putting down the console.

Still, there aren't many devices out there yet that can record and play 3D video. Nintendo's 3DS does have a slight advantage there even if it fails in connectivity and quality.

With Level-5 and Brownie Brown collaborating, how can you not end up with a super cute game? ^_ Looking forward to more news about it.
@pocket_arsenal - And don't forget Sword Of Mana.

I'm still waiting for a Harvest Moon/Rune Factory game where I can play as a girl and romance another girl. Until then, sorry Marvelous, no sale.

"Rumble"? Will there be another expansion hanging off the 3DS to make it rumble then?

Lol. I have the original as B-side of Link To The Past, but could never play it because it's multi-player only. Funny that I can now get a single-player edition for free.

Oh dear. Should I wait for the purple one, or get the pink one? Tempting..

Will this also come to Europe anytime soon? I haven't seen the red 3DS here yet either.

With the exception of the DS Lite, the colors like pink and purple always seem to come out much much later, often even after a console has been superseded by a new iteration/generation.

Instead of fussing with the hardware, Nintendo should bring on the games that make having a 3DS a necessity like the DS/i and PSP. So far there still aren't any games that make me want to go out and buy one right now or even soonish.

What @Shiryu said. If the DS was powerful enough to play SNES games, why isn't there a proper SNES VC for DSi or 3DS? Why are we only offered silly old NES games? Come on, Nintendo, I want to (re)play those great RPGs from the golden SNES era, but you're making it awfully hard to avoid piracy there.

Translate games into many languages for Europe? Nope, we play the same English game as the rest of the world outside Japan. Only the manual is translated into a few (3 or 4) different languages.

As for Kid Icarus, wasn't that supposed to be a (near-) launch game for the 3DS? What's it doing way over in December or later anyway? It should've been out by now.

Still waiting for good third party titles. Squeenix, Atlus, Sega, .. Where are my RPGs?
Also, why no SNES emulation? I think the DS was capable of doing that (CMIIW), but certainly the 3DS is.

I wish NanoStray had a Super Super Easy mode so I could actually play the game. As it is, I couldn't even beat the first level

When will game / movie / music distributors get it through their thick skulls that we're living in the 21st century now, and that the online world has no borders, and that they should stop trying to pretend that there are? All this regioning stuff is pissing off their customers big time.

I hope the purple/lilac one will be released before I have to buy a 3DS. That's my favorite color of the ones shown last year.

"Rhythm adventure", eh? Sounds interesting.

Bejeweled Twist sucks. Give us Bejeweled 2 please, Popcap.

Orange and purple 3DSes were also shown when it was announced. I hope they show up in stores quickly. I really want a purple one instead of aqua.

I'd love to play Phantasy Star Portable/Online/Universe in 3D.

Meh. I'm waiting until some good RPGs appear.

Yeah, translating them in the first place would make a big difference in being successfull abroad. Second would be not to redo the voice-acting, subtitles are much better. Other than that, don't change too much in the patterns and conventions that already work. A lot of what's popular in Japan can be successfull internationally if only given a chance (okay, and some advertising then).

Male-only protagonist? Meh.

SNES VC would be awesome

European price: €249 (~US$338)
USAian price: US$249 (~€183)
Add to that the fact that I buy nearly all my games from the USA (because of both price and availability). I think I'll be importing a 3DS.
I won't import it soon though. The launch set of games looks pretty meh, so I'll wait until better games show up.

As for there being no competition, well, next week Sony's new PSP(hone/2/whatever) will be announced. Let's see how competitive that's going to be.

At 15:00 I'm still at work. I'll have to watch the video/summary when I get home.

As for the memory size, recent photos of a 3DS showed that it had 96MB of memory.
http://www.3dsbuzz.com/chinese-factory-worker-leaks-photos-of-3ds/

Questions:
1. How locked will the 3DS regions be? Only for downloaded games, like the DSi, or for cartridges as well?
2. Will the VC include SNES games, maybe even complete emulation?
3. What about PC connectivity? Will we be able to exchange useful data between 3DS and PC?

Nearly all my games are imported from the USA, a few from Japan. I'd have to buy a USAian 3DS then, or hack the European one so it becomes region-free.

Wait, isn't region-locking illegal in Australia? I foresee a huge demand for Australian 3DSes then..

So hard to choose.. Etrian Odyssey 3, or 999?

Is that event in Amsterdam only for media people, or can everyone go? A'dam isn't very far from here (30min. by train).