Happy bday to the 3DS! The kids all love you once more!
The system launched with a pretty lackluster series of launch titles, and then had a huge lack of popular titles following it. The 3DS came out with the following games released on day-1: Ridge Racer 3D, Bust-A-Move Universe, Rayman 3D, Asphalt 3D, Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon: Shadow Wars, Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition, Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars, Nintendogs + Cats, Super Monkey Ball 3D, Pilotwings Resort, Madden Football, Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D, The Sims 3 and Steel Diver. As you can see, that’s not exactly the greatest line-up ever, with most of the games being ports or having “3D” tagged onto the end of their title. Additionally, Nintendo-published games like Steel Diver, Pilotwings Resort and Nintendogs+Cats are a far cry from Metroid, Mario, Zelda or Donkey Kong; games fans expected to see from a Nintendo launch.
Due in very large part to these launch games, the state of the Nintendo 3DS has been quite tumultuous of the past year, especially during the first few months of the systems life, and at a time before the game had any real AAA big games, and before the eShop had yet to be released.
This was also a period where the 3DS was priced at what many considered to be a much-too-expensive pricepoint of $250. That price is what really made the 3DS stumble, and sales were lackluster enough to cause huge alarm at Nintendo and enough for people to speculate that the 3DS had bombed and whether it would die a quick death. This despite the fact that the 3DS had sold just under half a million units on launch day (making it the best launch ever for a Nintendo handheld) and another 440,000 within the first week. However, Nintendo had expected to sell over 4 million 3DS units by March of 2011 and it came in under that at around 3.61 million.
The 3DS blew-up in the wake of the $170 pricecut (from $250) and the release of Super Mario 3D Land, Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Star Fox 64 3D & Mario Kart 7
Thankfully Nintendo came to their senses and within five months they announced a massive pricedrop for the system, slashing its price in half to a much-more-reasonable pricepoint of $170 worldwide.
To make amends, Nintendo then gave 20 free games to those who had bought the system at fullprice before the pricecut (they called these early adopters “Nintendo 3DS Ambassadors”) in the form of 10 NES titles (Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong Jr., Balloon Fight, Ice Climber, The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, NES Open Tournament Golf, Wrecking Crew, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, Yoshi) and 10 EXCLUSIVE Game Boy Advance games (F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, Super Mario Advance 3: Yoshi’s Island, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap, Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, Kirby & The Amazing Mirror, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Mario vs. Donkey Kong, Metroid Fusion, Wario Land 4, WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgames). Nintendo has since released a few of the NES titles (along with non-Ambassador games like Punch-Out!!) to the 3DS eShop for anyone to purchase (for $5) but swears that the GBA titles will remain exclusive to ambassadors. Hopefully Nintendo will re-release those and other GBA titles though, as many of them are beloved.
Resident Evil: Revelations exclusively for 3DS proved the system could hang with the big boys.
Following all of this ruckus, the 3DS came out swinging in the latter months of 2011 after half a year on the marketplace. The first big title hit around August, and from then on we saw a steady stream of great 3DS titles. These games included Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D, Star Fox 64 3D, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Dead or Alive Dimensions, Cave Story 3D, Mario Kart 7, Super Mario 3D Land.
The game library for the Nintendo 3DS was further filled out by quality titles like: Tales of the Abyss, Skylanders, Shinobi, Sonic Generations, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked, Pokémon Rumble Blast, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 5-7, Nano Assault, LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game, Harvest Moon: The Tale of Two Towns, BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II, Bit.Trip Saga, Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Legacy, and Pac-Man & Galaga Dimensions, among others.
In addition, the Nintendo eShop has added a number of great original titles that are wholly unique to the 3DS, like Pushmo, Mutant Mudds, VVVVVV, Pokedex 3D, Dillon’s Rolling Western and Mighty Switch Force, among other quality titles.
The shit gets real later this year when Pokemon and Dynasty Warriors collide in tactical RPG Pokemon x Nobunga's Ambition (x stands for "cross")
The Virtual Console for the 3DS further bolstered the amount of quality content in the 3DS library with a number of fantastic Game Boy, NES, and Game Gear games, including The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, Zelda: Four Swords Anniversary Edition, Metroid 2: Return of Samus, Super Mario Bros., Metroid NES, Kirby’s Dream Land, Super Mario Land, Qix, Game & Watch Gallery 1, Gargoyle’s Quest, Mega Man: Dr. Wiley’s Revenge, Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins, Burger Time Deluxe, Double Dragon, Bionic Commando, Adventure Island, Tetris, Blaster Master: Enemy Below, Punch-Out, Shinobi Game Gear, Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble Game Gear, Dragon Crystal Game Gear and a number of great games remastered with stereoscopic 3D graphics for the 3D Classics line. These include: 3D Classics: Xevious, 3D Classics: Urban Champion, 3D Classics: Kirby’s Adventure, 3D Classics: Twinbee, 3D Classics: Excitebike, and 3D Classics: Kid Icarus (GameStop-exclusive, Kid Icarus: Uprising pre-order).
The 3DS continues to impress with games like Resident Evil Revelations (and it’s Circle Pad Pro accessory, which gives the system another control stick and more buttons), Kid Icarus: Uprising, Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir, Tekken 3D: Prime Edition, and Metal Gear Solid 3D: Snake Eater among others. Later this year we will see the release of long-awaited quality titles like Paper Mario, Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle, Luigi’s Mansion 2, Monster Hunter Tri G, Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, Animal Crossing, Monster Hunter 4, Professor Layton VS Ace Attorney, TheaterRhythm: Final Fantasy, Pokémon + Nobunaga’s Ambition and a number of other bigname titles.
Additionally, the combination of the 3DS price-drop along with system sellers like Super Mario 3D Land and Mario Kart 7 caused the 3DS to reach the 15 million units sold mark, which is quite the feat! Here’s too many more long, happy years of the 3DS!
Have you been satisifed with your Nintendo 3DS?
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