The company that gave the world Mario, Link, and Samus is the undisputed champ of the modern console war, with nearly 150 million Switches sold since 2017. But now, speculation is rampant about the company’s next console, rumored to launch in 2025.
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With the 3DS pre-orders underway in Japan, peripheral makers are wasting no time releasing things for the handheld. 3DS covers, anyone?
Hey, Nintendo: this whole 3DS launch thing may be the talk of the town this week, but when you peel back the hype of a new handheld what’s left beneath isn’t all high fives and back slaps. No, beneath the new things and smell of fresh plastic there are gripes. And here are my biggest…
Japanese gamers lined up early this morning to place pre-orders for the Nintendo 3DS. I didn’t. I didn’t leave the house until after many stores were already selling out. Yet, I had no problems getting my pre-order. So what’s my trick? Photos from this morning showed long lines in Tokyo’s Akihabara and Shinjuku. According to…
The Internet is awash in a sea of new screenshots and videos for new, third-party 3DS games. So we’ve dropped as many of the new ones we could find right here for your easy perusal. Currently the list includes games like Pro Evo 2011, Resident Evil, Super Monkey Ball 3D, Super Street Fighter IV 3D,…
It might be a little hard to appreciate how good the 3DS’ Kid Icarus Uprising looks in this video. All games look better in person and not under funky lighting. But, surely you can see? Kid Icarus was the best-looking game I played on the Nintendo 3DS at today’s New York City pre-launch event. I…
Capcom’s Seth “S-Kill” Killian walks us through the controls for 3DS’ upcoming Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition. The game will have the same stages, costumes and moves found in the console version. The game will have two different control modes: Pro and light. Light mode enables you to set up macros, essentially, into the…
Dead or Alive: Dimensions, the Nintendo 3DS entry in the long-running, extremely jiggly fighting game series, is coming from Team Ninja. That’s the same team behind Wii game Metroid: Other M. Now the two are coming together. How? A new video of Dead or Alive: Dimensions shows off two Metroid cameos, one from mini-boss Ridley…
Nintendo walks us through all of the many apps built into the 3DS. This is what you get out of the box for free the day you buy the system. We already knew about the ability to take amazing, 3D photos and look at them live. But that’s not all you get when you pick…
Nintendo has revealed the launch price of the Nintendo 3DS, the company’s priciest portable yet at $249.99 USD. How does Nintendo’s stereoscopic 3D gaming handheld compare to the competition and its ancestors? The cost of buying into Nintendo’s latest and greatest portable gaming systems has been on the rise since the launch of the DS…
By this summer, three months after the Nintendo 3DS hits the U.S., there will be more than 30 games to play on the system, according to Nintendo. Here’s 23 of them. Reggie Fils-Aime today defined the 3DS’ launch window as between March 27 and June 7, when E3 kicks off, and said that more than…
Pilotwings Resort will have at least three modes of flight when it hits for the 3DS soon after the portable’s launch in March. Totilo walks us through some of the gameplay and controls of upcoming Pilotwings Resort. Totilo says that he’s not entirely happy with the game’s 3D effect, a first so far for a…
Totilo dives in to Nintendo’s submariner Steel Diver on the 3DS today in New York. This new hands-on with the game also includes a look at the game’s periscope mode. In the video above you can see the basic mechanics of gameplay, mostly the side-scrolling gameplay you’ll find in Steel Diver. But in the video…
The Friend Code, the bane of every modern Nintendo gamer’s existence, is getting a major overhaul with the release of the 3DS, allowing friends to find friends with little to none of the hair-pulling frustration that is currently involved. Gamers who try to play online with others using the DS or the Nintendo Wii currently…
Take a look at how Nintendo classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D will look on Nintendo’s upcoming 3DS. This top, first video, has Stephen Totilo walking us through some of the neat new features coming to the game when it hits the 3DS. That includes things like a gyroscope-enabled first-person mode and…
The Nintendo 3DS will come with six augmented reality cards. But what does that mean? It means you can drop 3D dragons on to coffee tables, desks and your son’s sleeping head and then shoot virtual arrows at them. Excellent! Stay tuned to Kotaku’s 3DS page for a day full of updates, interviews and videos.…
Here’s a quick look at the freebies built into the 3DS. Will be pubbing a much more detailed look at these features later in the day, but an important thing we discovered is that a lot of these built in apps can run in the background. For instance you can be playing Zelda Ocarina of…
Nintendo’s glasses-free 3D portable gaming system will hit “across Europe” on March 25. The price will be set by retailers, Nintendo Europe says. The system, which hits the U.S. on Match 27 for $249.99, will come with a telescoping stylus and some digital software built in. Retailers, including Amazon and GameStop, list the price at…
At 9am ET in New York City — 7am Kotaku Time — Nintendo will kick off its 3DS launch event. Will they finally tell us when this thing is coming out and what games we can play on it on day one? We’re ready, and we’re liveblogging. Click to viewNintendo 3DS Preview Bonanza
Nintendo’s glasses-free 3D portable gaming system will hit the U.S. on March 27 for $249.99 “Nintendo 3DS is a category of one – the experience simply doesn’t exist anywhere else,” said Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime. “You have to see Nintendo 3DS to believe it. And it’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before.” The…
Right now, gamers play video games on the Xbox 360, the PS3 and the Nintendo Wii. One day, we will have new consoles. Won’t that be great? Um, no, not according to one of gaming’s biggest studios. “It would be horrible,” says THQ’s Danny Bilson. “It still costs us a fortune to make games on…
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