While Sony had released the PSP at the same price years earlier, this pricing made the 3DS more expensive at launch than any prior Nintendo handheld by a wide margin.
The 3DS launched in early 2011 for $250 in the United States, ￥25,000 in Japan, around £220 in the UK, and similar prices elsewhere. Following in the precedent set by the DSi, the 3DS is region-locked, though this only applies to 3DS and DSi games: all DS games (and a handful of "DSi-enhanced" titles) are fully backwards compatible, regardless of region. For online play, the Friend Code system from the Wii remained, but was now universal and system-based, rather than on a per game basis.
Other features include two outer cameras for taking 3D pictures and a singular front-facing camera facing front, and Augmented Reality capabilities for certain games and features. The 3DS also saw the addition of a gyroscope similar to that found in the Wii's Motion Plus controllers, which allowed for the use of motion control in various games, as well as an analog "Circle Pad" similar to (although much larger and easier to use than) the one found on the PSP to better support 3D titles. The 3D depth could be adjusted or disabled with a slider on the top screen, giving the main screen screen its own unique function alongside the bottom screen, which retains its touch functionality. Keeping all the features on the DSi, the 3DS takes the concept of the DS as a whole and adds another dimension to it.Ĭertainly, the most highlighted feature of the 3DS - as the name implies - was the now-widescreen top screen being capable of producing stereoscopic 3D visuals without the use of special glasses, by using a parallax barrier. In many ways, the 3DS built upon the base formula of its predecessors and improves them. Continuing down the path of technical innovation Nintendo first explored with the Nintendo DS and the Wii, while also learning from the disappointing endeavors of the Virtual Boy, the Nintendo 3DS is a functional 3D handheld console.
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