E3 bored us. It was basically Microsoft reinventing the Wii and Sony talking about all the non-exclusive games they are releasing. The whole thing was a horrible meh-fest. At least until Nintendo had a go.
After going on about Super Zelda Mario Princess Kong Other Whatever for what felt like a while, they then started talking about the 3DS, their eighteenth successor to the Nintendo DS. As you’ll all know by now, it does “3D and shit, yeah?” but without glasses (totally invalidating that pic over there).
Of course, we couldn’t see the 3D over the piss-poor streams we were struggling with but the shrieking E3 crowd got to try it out. The main goodness came from the list of games that will be on it. AssCreed, Saints Row and FUCKING PILOTWINGS BABY. So, now we want one. In our pants.
Price is now being discussed and Nintendo are rather unhelpfully saying “[On] price, we haven’t made any kind of announcement at the moment, but the Nintendo DSi is available for around £129.99,” said UK marketing manager James Honeywell this week.
“The Nintendo DSi XL, with the larger screens, is around £159.99. So obviously, it’s going to fit, kind of, somewhere within that kind of architecture.”
We found that news on C&VG and reported it to you in a sarcastic way.