http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/ Engadget Comments for Was Nintendo pressured into revealing the 3DS early? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/You guys do know that this was an aprils fools joke, right?]]>Apr 1st 2010 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/looks like they got a *facepalm* from the press.]]>Apr 1st 2010 8:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 7:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/
The 3DS will likely not be as big as the DSi XL and if the GBA and DS are any indicator, the backwards compatibility will probably result in a stretched or letterboxed screen. I'd rather have a good DS to play my DS games on, and the DSi XL is the best of the best.]]>Apr 1st 2010 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/I don't argue. You and other Nintendo fans (me included) won't really be affected by the 3ds anouncement. I don't think the dsi xl is such a huge product for Nintendo. It's just a minor update. The 3ds sounds like the next big thing for them in the portable space.]]>Apr 1st 2010 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/
I love my DSi XL. My DSL was getting long in the tooth (spotty touchscreen performance) and I just like the big screen. Contra 4 looks amazing on it!]]>Apr 1st 2010 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 7:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/
Do'h

Roll on E3!!!!!!!!!!!!!]]>Apr 1st 2010 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/
I still don't understand how an official announcement would have been better than a "leak". So they officially announced it to prevent a leak??

That's like Apple officially announcing the iPhone HD now because its specs were leaked. I'm still not buying the reason behind Nintendo doing that.]]>Apr 1st 2010 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 9:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/
Just to remark on something you said.

People didn't expect the iPad to turn sand into gold. They were merely expecting it to run a tablet-optimized version of Mac OS, multitask, and have video-call capability.... and the absence of full-fidelity flash browsing wasn't even thinkable.]]>Apr 1st 2010 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/And, on the other hand.

Nobody -in their wildest dreams- expected the next DS to boast glasses-free 3D. See the difference between the two announcements?]]>Apr 1st 2010 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Yes, I do see your point, but I was over exaggerating to make mine. I know people didn't expect the iPad to turn sand into gold (and I don't mean to turn the topic onto anything Apple related - I was just using the iPad as an example) I used it as an example simply because rumours can get out of hand, like how in the iPad, one day it had a nine inch OLED screen, the next it had a seven inch e-ink screen. And that is the reason I think Nintendo announced the 3DS so early, so people don't get annoyed at them because the final product was different to what they expected.]]>Apr 1st 2010 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/
Well it says ''Via Joystiq'' just below the article above the source link.]]>Apr 1st 2010 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/
i think somebody threw a wiifit with a threatening note attached to it through his window, too.]]>Apr 1st 2010 8:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/
Heck, look at the car industry - there can be leaked spyshots of an upcoming model, but until the carmaker themselves is ready to announce the new car, they simply don't talk about any car in development.]]>Apr 1st 2010 8:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/
Think about the iPhone: by that same logic, every single iteration was already obsolete on release day, since you could actually tell that, in another 12 months, a better version was to be released. I don't see how that certainty has killed iPhone sales. ¿do you?.

Normal non-geek people (the kind the XL is marketed to, anyway) don't care about yet-to-be-released devices. They just walk in the store, see something they like, and buy it. And hey, they will see the XL, like the bigger screen, and buy it. And a year from now, they may still be using it not even knowing a "new thing" has been released.]]>Apr 1st 2010 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/
Well the problem with your iPhone comparison is that you know there will be a new iteration every year. A consumer can't decide not to buy one because there will be a new once next year, usually with enough of a spec bump to be a worthwhile investment over an older model. They'll be putting it off indefinitely if that's the case. ]]>Apr 1st 2010 9:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 11:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/
Yeah, but the thing is they aren't putting it off, ¿aren't they?

I mean, C'mon, even the average consumer "knows" there's going to be an iPhone 4G sooner rather than later ¿right?. Well ¿is that killing iPhone 3GS's sales?. no, it isn't. It's still selling like cookies, As it happened with the 3G and the 2G before.

But that's not my point really. Take a look at the history of the DS. The orginal DS sold in the millions, then the DS Lite came out. It was just a redesign with hardly any novelty or new feature. Again, sold in the millions. Then the DSi. Pretty much identical to the DS Lite, just with a crappy camera. Sold in the millions -it even lost GBA compatibility... nah, whatever-.

DS consumers have been buying version after version of the thing, no matter what. And this XL thing has something actually NEW. So no, I don't think the 3DS announcment will kill the thing. I believe the XL will sell in the millions....again. And when the 3DS is released, well...guess what's going to happen.

Hey, ¿remember when everyone said the DSi was going to fail because there was no reason to get one if you already had a DS, and people who didn't would choose to wait for the next thing instead?. Yeah, right.]]>Apr 1st 2010 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 8:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 9:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/
The simple matter is that Nintendo is easily the most secretive company in the industry, and NOTHING gets out from them until they want it to. How many speculations were there on what Nintendo's "Revolution" system would offer with its controller, and how many of them were right in the end?]]>Apr 1st 2010 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/They are so good at keeping secrets because in Japan, you won't just get fired if you leak company secrets. They'll kill you.

Hahaha]]>Apr 1st 2010 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/
If by "Industry" you mean Consumer Electronics, the most secretive company of the industry is, by a long distance, Apple.

With Nintendo, you at least get a project codename two years in advance. Heck, they'll even show you some Tech demos (as they did with Project Reality). No way Steve would ever let that happen in Cuppertino]]>Apr 1st 2010 12:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/
I recognize that wall.. 2pro?]]>Apr 1st 2010 12:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 1st 2010 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/
i just might get an XL ]]>Apr 2nd 2010 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/01/was-nintendo-pressured-into-revealing-the-3ds-early/Apr 2nd 2010 12:03PM