The developers of the 3DS had trouble convincing their co-workers that the 3D handheld was a good idea, due in part to the disaster that was the Virtual Boy.The Virtual Boy was a mid-90′s console featuring a headset capable of creating 3D images. It was also terrible. Hardly anybody bought it and the ones that [...]

Earlier this month Nintendo invited two competition winners to join the games industry in Amsterdam for the announcement of the European 3DS launch date and software. Eurogamer reader Richard Horne was one of them, and as soon as he got back he wrote up his epic impressions of the hardware and software. Read on to [...]

Don’t expect a smaller version just yetIwata talks, size mattersEver since before the 3DS was officially unveiled, gamers claimed they would wait until the so-called “inevitable” revision that has accompanied all Nintendo’s portable hardware over the years: you need only look at the number of iterations of the original GameBoy, GameBoy Advance and Nintendo DS [...]

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Early this week, I saw the new 3DS and demo-ed some of the games, including Resident Evil: The Mercenaries, Kid Icarus: Uprising, Super Street Fighter 4 3D, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and more.It’s easy to get lost in the buzz of the Nintendo 3DS. We did it when Gameboy Color came out, Gameboy [...]

“We’re not opposed to Achievements,” Nintendo’s Bill Trinen told me earlier this week, even as he confirmed that his company’s next system, the 3DS, won’t have one of the more popular features in Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC gaming.Perhaps Nintendo has found a trend worth bucking.Since the launch of the Xbox 360, gamers and [...]

Nintendo announces its new handheld 3DS will go on sale on March 27 for $250. The device does not require special glasses and has cameras that let users take 3D photos. Nintendo says there will be more than 30 games available for the 3DS by early June, including “The Legend of Zelda” and “Madden NFL [...]

The Nintendo 3DS is predicted to outsell the PSP2 in 2011.  Industry analyst Michael Pachter has recently stated that the 3DS will come out on top of the handheld war that will the ravage the world in 2011.  Pachter offered his thoughts on the two devices in a recent interview with Inc Gamers.“I think that [...]

We’ve seen the future of gaming, and it’s in 3D… Since Nintendo announced their 3DS, critics and consumers alike have been flummoxed by the proposition Nintendo seem to be offering: real 3D, without the glasses. Even in an age of ever-increasing marvels, this is a bold promise indeed and Nintendo have reached for the stars. [...]

 On the official Japanese Nintendo 3DS website, Nintendo have highlighted a new feature called “Game Coins”. On the top screen when browsing the home menu two different stats appear, the first is the amount of steps you have walked that day which then fades away to reveal the amount of Game Coins you currently have. [...]