3DS prices and launch date revealed

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Europe march 25th
USA march 27th

Pricing in USA will be $250


http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/19/nintendo-3ds-in-depth-preview-slight-return-video/
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/19/nintendo-3ds-us-launch-detailed-coming-to-the-us-in-march-27-fo/
http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/19/live-from-nintendos-3ds-preview-with-reggie-fils-aime/

I have 2 preordered. Will sell one of them if they go for enough online. If not will most likely buy it as a gift for a family member.
 
Nintendo 3DS Release Dates, Prices for Europe and U.S. Revealed

Nintendo on Wednesday officially revealed release dates as well as recommended prices of its highly-anticipated 3DS portable video game systems in the European Union and the United States. The handheld with autostereoscopic 3D screen will cost in the U.S. less than in Japan, but will become available only in late March. Europeans will pay most for the 3DS.

Nintendo 3DS will become available in Europe on March 25, 2011, and will be released in the U.S. on the 27th of March. The portable console will cost $249 in the U.S., which is lower than ¥25 000 ($304) in Japan and much lower than €249 ($335) in Europe or £219 - £229 ($349 - $365) in the UK. As previously reported, Nintendo will release the highly-anticipated gadget on 26th of February in Japan.

Since all consoles will be virtually locked to their region of purchase, games acquired in one region may not work with consoles from other regions. As a result, it will be impossible to buy a Nintendo 3DS in the U.S. and then use it with games released in Europe or Japan.

Earlier this month in an interview with a Japanese news-paper, Satoru Iwata, the president of Nintendo, said that the company planned to sell 1.5 million of 3DS consoles in Japan in its first month (starting from February, 26) and ship 4 million of the new-generation portable game systems worldwide by the end of March. Given the launch dates in Europe and the U.S., it is clear that Nintendo anticipates incredible demand towards the world's first portable game console with stereo-3D screen.

"Nintendo 3DS is a category of one - the experience simply does not exist anywhere else. You have to see Nintendo 3DS to believe it. And it's like nothing you have ever seen before," said Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime.

Nintendo 3DS features a 3.53” autostereoscopic 3D top screen with 800x240 resolution (400 pixels for each eye) and a 3.02” bottom touch screen with 320x240 resolution. It has three 0.3MP cameras – one inner and two outer – to deliver the stereo-3D effect and take stereo-3D pictures. It includes a motion sensor, a gyro sensor, Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/n controller, a Slide Pad that allows 360-degree analog input and so on. The device also has a special slider that can increase, decrease or disable stereoscopic 3D (S3D) effect. The 3DS comes in form-factor that is similar to the predecessors and is fully compatible with Nintendo DS titles. The console uses DMP Pica 200 graphics processor. As announced previously, it will have a slot for SD cards as well as support cartridges for previous-gen DS systems. When playing stereoscopic 3D games specifically developed for 3DS, the console will last 3.5 to 5 hours depending on conditions. When playing DS or DSi games, which are naturally 2D only, the system will have a battery life of 5 to 8 hours. Full charge of the batter takes around 3.5 hours.

During the launch window (between the March 25/27 launch date and the E3 Expo in early June) more than 30 games will be available to Nintendo 3DS owners.
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Source: http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/multim...Dates_Prices_for_Europe_and_U_S_Revealed.html
 
To be fair with pricing , its not that far off. The USA numbers don't include tax which the europe ones do. I believe vat in some countrys is 20% . Here in jersey sales tax is only 7%
 
Yes VAT is pretty high here. 19% in Holland. Though even if you have 20% VAT in the states, that still means a 3DS is 30 euro's cheaper so Europe is getting it up the butthole again. Maybe i'll pick one up when I go to Japan in 2 months but it really depends on what nintendo is planning for the region lock.
 
Europe always gets shafted, so why should it be any different now? The region lock doesn't really bother me either since I never imported anything for my DS. The price of the games on the other hand is a real slap in the face. I still want one, but I'll definitely wait for the inevitable PSP2 unveiling now.
I have 3d Vision for my PC, and as fun as it was initially, it just didn't turn out be a real game changer. It's a a somewhat entertaining novelty that doesn't change the way you play games. Not one bit.
 
How does Nintendogs 3D work? I thought the point of Nintendogs was a virtual pet you'd interact with, stroking and petting and whatnot, but if the touch screen isn't the 3D screen, that side will have to be 2D. It seems an awkward separation in my mind.
 
Sigfried1977 said:
Europe always gets shafted, so why should it be any different now?
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If you go by the price in Japan, I'm not 100% sure that's the case.

¥23,810 + VAT = ¥25,000

So at todays exchange rate:

£181.21 + VAT = £217.45
€214.65 + VAT = €255.43 (assuming @19%)

Those prices aren't too far away from the Japan base price. The US gets a special price of around $30 less than the Japan price.
 
Rotmm said:
If you go by the price in Japan, I'm not 100% sure that's the case.

¥23,810 + VAT = ¥25,000

So at todays exchange rate:

£181.21 + VAT = £217.45
€214.65 + VAT = €255.43 (assuming @19%)

Those prices aren't too far away from the Japan base price. The US gets a special price of around $30 less than the Japan price.
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if you go by the price in the US tho it's at lease another £30 cheaper...if I lived in the US I could buy this for around £170, that's £60 difference (or ~25%)
 
tongue_of_colicab said:
Yes VAT is pretty high here. 19% in Holland. Though even if you have 20% VAT in the states, that still means a 3DS is 30 euro's cheaper so Europe is getting it up the butthole again. Maybe i'll pick one up when I go to Japan in 2 months but it really depends on what nintendo is planning for the region lock.
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Remember , The USA has 300m people in it that should all speak 1 language (perhaps 2 with spanish and requires one set of laws to sell to all those people. 1 set of packaging and so on.


With europe its all diffrent countrys each with thier own laws and many diffrent languages. I also beleive that some european countrys require by law that your given 3 years warrenty. In the states we are lucky to get 1.


IF its 335 in europe with 20% vat thats $67 going to vat . So its only $18 more than the usa.
 
eastmen said:
IF its 335 in europe with 20% vat thats $67 going to vat . So its only $18 more than the usa.
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its £230 in UK, take away the vat and that's arpund £190, so near as dammit £40 more expensive which is still around 25% more whichever way you cut it...and we speak the same language (near as) as the US

and whats all this 3 years warranty talk?
 
goonergaz said:
and whats all this 3 years warranty talk?
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It's true, most EU countries have either 2 or 3 years by law, even if manufacturer says there's one year guarantee. Then there are variations such as that the first two years the manufacturer has to prove that the customer abused the device, whereas in the 3rd year the customer has to prove the manufacturer is at fault, something like that.

Right now I feel that the 3DS screen size is too small. Otherwise I'm definitely interested in the 3D. But from the looks of things, I may pass on a Nintendo handheld yet again (managed to pass on all of them so far, must be a record ;) )
 
Aye, part of the more expensive costs for selling product in Europe is having to provide a mandatory X years of warranty and other consumer protections.

None of which is free to companies wishing to sell product in Europe. If you want cheaper product ala the US, petition the EU to remove those protections.

Think of that extra price as the EU forcing everyone in the EU to buy an extended warranty at checkout. Since adding another 2 years of extended warranty in the US to something like the DS would probably cost between 15-30 USD. [edit] NM - it can be a LOT more. At Newegg, an extended warranty is 25.99 USD for 1 year and 49.99 for 2 years. So yes, much of that extra price is probably the EU mandated policy that everyone buying product must also buy the extended warranty at checkout. :)

Basically you want extended consumer protection? Well, you've got it but you have to pay for it. The US gets cheaper product because companies have less governement restrictions placed upon them for selling product.

As well, I'd imagine the US, and by extension Canada, gets a defacto volume discount. As mentioned it's one contiguous region for the purposes of marketing, taxes, customs, language, currency, distribution, regulations, etc...

Regards,
SB
 
Arwin said:
It's true, most EU countries have either 2 or 3 years by law, even if manufacturer says there's one year guarantee. Then there are variations such as that the first two years the manufacturer has to prove that the customer abused the device, whereas in the 3rd year the customer has to prove the manufacturer is at fault, something like that.
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not in the UK (where it's the most expensive) - there is the argument WRT how long something should last, but tecnically 99% of folk have 1 year
 
I haven't followed the previous hand-held gaming gadgets that closely, but I was very surprised at the cost and battery runtime of the new Nintendo 3DS. It wasn't a good surprise either. It has claimed battery life of 5-8 hours which means in real life it will be significantly less and it takes at least 3.5 hours to charge. On top of all that, it's $250! Ouch. I can't imagine that going over well with the younger market.
 
Kotaku published a long list of 3DS Q&As:
http://kotaku.com/5738668/short-cords-long-friend-lists-and-other-burning-3ds-questions-answered

The system's power cord seemed kinda short. Should we be worried?
No. Nintendo's Trinen said that the short 3DS cord shown recently in Japan was only "for illustrative purporses only." Power cords from the DSi or DSiXL will also plug into the 3DS.

Once and for all, is the 3DS region-locked? The days of playing Japanese games on a U.S. handheld are over?
For Nintendo, they are. The system is region-locked. "One of the primary driving factors for that has to do with parental controls," Nintendo's Bill Trinen says. "Different regions have different ratings systems. The region-locking allows us to provide the different parental controls to deal with the ratings in each territory." While this seems like a policy change for Nintendo, Trinen says they've been doing this for DSi and Wii games, all of which are linked to their system's parental controls.
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The 3DS seems like a pretty capable machine. One of its less ballyhooed features is that you can multi-task with it. How does that work?

A 3DS owner user can suspend any game they are playing at any point and access one of several options (all displayed across the top of the screen) that let them access a virtual notepad, a web browser and even a friends list that lets them see who else is online. As for how useful this might be: "Specifically for an example with Zelda," Nintendo's Trinen says, "If you're stuck in the water temple and you're trying to figure out where the last of the switches are that you have to hit to draw the water level down and get all the way down to the boss, you can immediately hit the home button, bring up the browser, go to whatever tip site you want to go to, figure out where that is, then switch over to the game notes, draw a map on your screen to refer to or go right back into the game." All of this can be done with the game suspended, which is superior level of support for multi-tasking than any game machine has ever offered before.

…

How many friends can we have registered in the system?
Nintendo's pegging it at "about 100."

…

Will the 3DS talk to the Wii?
Yes. While Nintendo's talking a lot about the way the 3DS can connect to Wi-Fi hot spots and other 3DS systems even when it is in sleep mode, the company is also giving one example of how the machine can link to the Wii. Both the 3Ds and Wii use the Mii avatar system, so the Wii will be able to send Miis to the 3DS. We won't be able to send them back to the Wii, because the 3DS' Miis actually have more hairstyle and facial feature options than the Wii supports (Yeah, we should have asked Nintendo why they wouldn't just update the Wii's Mii channel to match that.)
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Article also covers walking to earn points, transferring content from DSi to 3DS.
 
My only real question is if purchases on VC for wii will transfer to the 3DS.

I have 2 reserved. Depending on prices when it launches i might sell both.
 
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