Zidane's Poll of the Week #279

[Zidane]

I want a 3DS. Hey! Does anyone wanna give me one? I'll be your friend.

[thresholdXCI]

I'll wait a while until the library of good games fleshes out a bit. Still a lot of games I want to get for the original DS before I drop any money on a new system.

[Popple]

I'm in pretty much the exact position as threshold. Plus, as a poor college student I can't spend the money (or the time) to pick one up right away. Maybe by Christmas or even later.

[KingBroly]

I kinda think the price will be $200 by this fall, or at the very least they'll be a very good game bundle.

But I'm sorta hoping for a 3DS XL since I love my DSi XL so much.

[Jaden]

you're awesome zidane.

[cortjezter]

sorry, nintendo, after tax and just ONE game, i just can't afford to drop 300+ dollars on a handheld. i'll wait until it drops below 200.

[Golbez]

I'll wait a while until the library of good games fleshes out a bit. Still a lot of games I want to get for the original DS before I drop any money on a new system.

Same here. The 3DS' launch lineup of games is garbage.

[MAGNUS-8M]

If this streak of work is enough, I might be able to afford it. Maybe, by the time I can buy it, they'll already be unlocking the eShop and allowing for DSiWare importing, which means I could also finally trade in my DSi towards some actual 3DS games.....IF I can make enough, comfortably.

[Artistic_Anarchy]

I'm going to eventually get it. I have the money to buy it right now, but I can't force myself to drop over $300 for a 3DS and a game I don't really want at the moment. I'll wait till there's software relative to my interest. Who knows, by the time I decide to get one, some of the games may drop in price!

[depart]

I've got my system but the only reason is because launch coincided with a spontaneous game/dvd/etc purge. For a while now, I've been looking at the entertainment hoard that I've collected over the last 10+ years and thinking "I've got to get rid of some of this!". So I sold a ton of stuff to Amazon and on eBay and now I have my 3DS. Time to start collecting again :p

[Mako]

"Already did, because I'm awesome."

Don't have any games yet though. lol Will probably get Street Fighter soon. With all the missing features I don't blame people for waiting. No eShop, browser, netflix, 3D content like Japan gets, must have games, etc. yet.

[opnickc]

Of course I got one!

Before the 3DS was detailed at E3 last year, I was thinking about upgrading my computer for nVidia 3D vision. Which would have:
1. Cost around $600 (3d capable monitor plus glasses and IR transmitter)
2. Required active shutter glasses, which have a noticeable flicker, are bulky, need to be charged, and are expensive to replace.
3. Had very few games designed to use it.

Then, the 3DS was announced. No glasses, much cheaper, and games designed to be 3D. On top of that, it has a ton of developer support (Dead or Alive, Resident Evil Revelations, and Metal Gear Solid FTW!), it has Nintendo first-party titles, it's portable, it can play DS games (I never bought a DS, , so this is actually kind of a big feature for me), it has a lot of the slightly more offbeat titles the DS was known for in development (Layton vs Ace Attorney, Time Travelers, etc.), it's more powerful than the Wii, it's got a ton of cool little things like Street Pass and Face Raiders, etc. It's an extremely impressive system, even if the launch lineup was a bit lackluster. Choosing to buy it instead of an nVidia 3d vision setup or a PS3 + 3DTV setup was an absolute no-brainer. And with so many awesome games coming out this year, and so many DS games to catch up on, I saw no reason to wait on the purchase.

On the topic of price: my $0.02:
$250 is a lot of money to spend on a personal entertainment device, of any kind, IMO. However, the only reason ANY of us expect something cheaper is because it's a Nintendo product. If Sony or Apple were the ones to release this, we all know it'd cost $400-$600, and that would be considered a fair price for it. For most of the world, this is the first no-glasses 3D device available to buy. If this were Apple, people would be raving about how great it is that we can get this amazing magical, futuristic technology for only $600!

The 3DS is $20 more than an iPod touch, and a heck of a lot cooler. It's half the price of an iPad, which I would be willing to bet functions primarily as an entertainment device for most of its users. It's almost certainly going to be significantly cheaper than the NGP. I still think that $250 is a lot of money for an entertainment device, but compared to other devices in that category, and considering that it does something never done before in consumer electronics, the 3DS is more than fairly priced IMO.

[Skooter]

I'm waiting on my paycheck so that I can afford it . I won't get any 3DS games yet, but I'm psyched to play around with the features of the system, and playing old DS games with the circle pad!

I hope I can still easily get one when I have the money. Though it should be alright since I also got a Wii easily shortly after the release (things don't really sell out as much in a small country like mine).

[8bubbles8joe]

I got mine on launch day, along with Pilotwings. Best handheld yet!

[jasonmaivia]

I'd probably buy an Xbox 360 or PS3 before getting a 3DS (I still don't own an HD console yet). What I'm really waiting for is E3. If they can show me dozens of games that I like that aren't rushed with missing features (Madden), bad (Asphalt) or ports (Zelda, Rayman), then I'll be more interested in purchasing one.

So far, we've heard of more ports (with and without new added content) coming to 3DS before the actual new flood of games come their way, like Shin Megumi Tensei: Devil Survivor (DS), Tales of the Abyss (PS2), Metal Gear Solid 3 (PS2), Resident Evil: Mercenaries, Star Fox (N64), Zelda: Ocarina of Time, etc..

It'll be a while until the good stuff comes. We may have to wait until late 2011 or 2012, so this is a good-enough excuse for me not to want to buy one now.

[peenbbb2]

I'll get it when Mario Kart 3DS releases in the US and the system price to be below $200. (I hope that's the system's price before the game comes out.)