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madstarr said:
Hmm. I pretty much e-mailed a Nintendo rep asking about release dates, and they said something very interesting.

"What we mean when we at Nintendo say that the Nintendo 3DS will be out "by March 2011," we are saying that by that date, the Nintendo 3DS would already have been launched for some time. We just put that launch date on the table so that no one could explicitly know the exact date for launch. Rest assured, that the Nintendo 3DS will be released sometime inbetween October and March depending on how fast developers at Nintendo of Japan HQ finish the machine. We can't tell you the exact state of tthe 3DS, but it is nearing completion in terms of hardware and software. This is the only information I'm able to give to you as of right now, as release dates will most certainly be announced at the end of September."

March 2011... That's the same month and year Pokemon Black and White will be released! In the United States. They will probably be the last sucessful Nintendo DS game, as the Nintendo 3DS makes its enterance to the USA.
 
Charizard said:
March 2011... That's the same month and year Pokemon Black and White will be released! In the United States. They will probably be the last sucessful Nintendo DS game, as the Nintendo 3DS makes its enterance to the USA.
It's still 'Spring 2011'. So we don't know when it'll be out.

B/W will probably be the last good DS game, before DS production slows down. I doubt they'll still keep the DS around much longer but we'll see.
 
I got a group of High Quality pictures to compare Mario Kart 3DS, Mario Kart DD, and Mario Kart Wii in terms of graphics comparisons

Mario Kart 3DS
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Mario Kart Wii
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MK3DS
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MKDD
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I think that the MK3DS graphics are better than the MKDD graphics, and the MKWii graphics. The 1st MK3DS pic shows Mario and the next pic shows an image of MKWii with Mario basically in the same position (almost). What i can see, is that Mario's head looks a bit more rounder than in Mario Kart Wii's image. The same goes for the 2nd MK3DS image and the MKDD image. Less blockier and more smooth. What do you guy's think of this comparison? Does the 3DS have better visuals than the preceding systems like the Wii and GC?
 
MLYW said:
The 3DS does seems to have better visuals than the GC but the textures don't look as good as the Wii one. Those screens are all from a tech demo. Only good comparison would be Kid Icarus: Uprising. The graphics can only get better as the games become more complete.
I think that the 3ds graphics look bad at a larger resolution. I photoshopped the MK3DS screens to a higher resolution to try to hide some of the jaggyness, but I guess it didn't work. It's true that the graphics are going to get better, but they really don't seem as detailed as something like Resident Evil. Comparing the amount of detail on RE and MK3DS makes MK3DS look a bit behind. Probably because RE is already in later stages of developments than MK3DS is. To me, the 1st party Nintendo titles aren't very impressive as much as others. Even with a Nintendo game like Kid Icarus which is probably about 30-50% complete. Unfortuantely, I'm dissapointed at the Kid Icarus Graphics. The game is probably not complete yet, but the game has minimal amounts of shading and contrast with shadows and surrounding detail and I'm not sure it'll change much. But hey, I can't ppredict the future.

Berrylarry200 said:
Since the 3DS is more powerful than the Wii the graphics look sharper and smoother looking at the screenshots. The textures look okay... Does anyone know if the 3DS has HD graphics?

What do you mean "HD" graphics? 400x240 is about 2.2/10 of full HD (yes, I did the math). If you mean that if it has graphics similar to the HD consoles, then it depends on the game. If you look at a game like Mario Kart, not so much. But to a game like Resident Evil or Metal Gear Solid, then yes, close to the HD consoles in graphics. But expect them to look better in the coming months. But if we can find out more specs on the system than what we already have, we can really see what it's capable of. So far, we know that the GPU is a Pica200 clocked @ 400mhz. But we don't know the CPU, or the amount of RAM, which are two of the most important things needed for determining graphics power. All we know, is that the CPU is probably above 400mhz since CPU's are usually clocked faster than GPU's. Since the graphics probably exceed GC, it'll be safe to say that it's above 495mhz, which is the GC's CPU speed. It could possibly have better visuals than Wii since the Wii's GPU is at 243mhz. Here's what that Pica200 chip is capable of, you probably already seen it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A-xxUyJvQQ
 
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Pic to see what it looks like.

5 colors: Red, Blue, Black, Orange, and Purple
 
Wolf said:
1-Up said:
On the show floor, at Nintendo's booth, display cases show off four additional colors. Though none of the colors shown are currently confirmed for release, it has us optimistic about possible future options.

OMFG!

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THERE!!!
 
MLYW said:
Nermal said:
Wolf said:
1-Up said:
On the show floor, at Nintendo's booth, display cases show off four additional colors. Though none of the colors shown are currently confirmed for release, it has us optimistic about possible future options.
Note the word "none."

I'd probably get the blue one, since it's my favorite color, and loos appealing to me, at least.

Nermal said:
ARE YALL RETARDED? THE PICS ARE RIGHT THERE!
We're not. You're not reading our posts carefully.
 
Nermal said:
ARE YALL RETARDED? THE PICS ARE RIGHT THERE!

Did you not see what I bolded in the quote?

Nermal said:
Wolf said:
1-Up said:
On the show floor, at Nintendo's booth, display cases show off four additional colors. Though none of the colors shown are currently confirmed for release, it has us optimistic about possible future options.
 
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