subject: Nintendo 3DS Hands-On: Does It Live Up to the Hype? [print this page] Nintendo 3DS Hands-On: Does It Live Up to the Hype?
We'vecovered Nintendo's 3DS plenty these last few months, and with good reason. Nintendo's DS platform currently qualifies as the second-bestselling game console in the world, just a few million units behind Sony's PlayStation 2. That, and we're as curious as you about the glasses-free 3D experience. Will it be enough to fend offSony's Next Generation Portable (NGP) and Apple'srapidly expanding iOS gaming platform?
We recently had a chance to put a few of theNintendo 3DS launch titlesthrough their paces, including Pilotwings, Steel Diver, Nintendogs + Cats, Super Street Fighter IV 3D. We also allowed Nintendo to guide us through some of the 3DS's built-in features like Street Pass, the gyroscopic motion controls, and the augmented reality angle.
Patrick Miller, Staff Editor: I wasn't hyped for the 3DS in the slightest until I got a chance to play with it. Frankly, if I hadn't been a devoted Nintendo DS owner, I would probably have been a bit confused by the various mishmash of features: Augmented reality games, motion controls, Street Pass, and so on. However, having seen game developers take the original Nintendo DS's unorthodox feature set and turn it into some of the most innovative games I've ever seen, I'm officially stoked.
I can see myself carrying one everywhere thanks to the Street Pass features, which allows various games to interact with other 3DS-toting people (Super Street Fighter IV 3D, for example, allows your character to "battle" other passers-by while your 3DS is in standby mode), and the Games Coin function, which allows me to earn in-game currency simply by walking around with 3DS in tow (think pedometer with perks). Likewise, the camera-based augmented reality game features (demoed in a game called FaceRaider) are just the tip of the iceberg. Give me a Phoenix Wright title for the 3DS and I'm sold.
When it comes to the 3D technology itself, I was less than impressed. The 3D effect basically makes the 3DS screen appears as though you're looking into a diorama, and it wasn't fantastic. It's neat, but not a game-changer as far as I'm concerned.
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