Oh no, what he meant was that some stores will give you the difference back if you bought a system close to a price-drop. you never replace the system.
Nobody should be expecting a "3DSi" or a 3DS "lite" at any point in the near future, I don't think. Not until at least Christmas of 2012, if even that soon (I'm not expecting it). This is the first time they've been able to update their handheld with direct system updates - and the 3DS out right now is essentially the…
At the risk of sounding like a money-grubbing tight-wad, there IS actually a way that you could get the free downloadable games and the $170 price-point. Go out and buy a 3DS sometime before the price drop, say around August 5th. Use it to sign up for the eShop. On August 12, take the receipt back to the store you bought…
That's true for games using the 2D engine but what about games rendered in pure 3D? There's no such thing like a layer system in 3D games. The DS games I worked on used dual 3D for everything (not optimal but we were tied to engine restrictions), so we didn't even touch the layer system other than using it for rendering…
I'm not sure we'd be complaining so much if Sony hadn't announced the Vita. Can the 3DS be improved? Sure. Is it still a significant upgrade over the DSi? Definitely. And that's the way Nintendo should be marketing it. Non-gamers are confused by the S3D thing, especially since they can't see the 3D on television or in…
You know, I can actually see this happening but it wont be as you think. The DS uses a 4 layer system when rendering text over video or sprites on a background and so on and so on, each have their own rendering priority. If they do plan on doing 3d for regular ds games then it would probably exploit this and allow for a…
EDIT: http://www.nintendo.com/corp/nintendo3ds/news/ "Whether it's a move to gain sales for the holiday season or simply to create a userbase too large for the PSP Vita work against, Nintendo has done an unprecedented price drop for the 3DS. Effective August 12th, Nintendo will reduce the price of the 3DS from $249.99 to…