March 27, 2011 Nintendo has released the 3DS, the handheld successor to the uber-successful one Nintendo ds. Since then it has been sold 70 million units worldwide and a host of great games have been released for it over the past decade.
I was lucky enough to be holding a 3DS around the time it launched. While there was a shortage of consoles in 2011, it was not like todayThis is what I mean: My dad and I were driving to a store, maybe Walmart, on a whim, about a week after the 3DS came out. We have not checked online or call ahead. And when we got there, we found four or five 3DS consoles behind Plexiglas, sitting around waiting to be bought. Can you imagine this? today I don’t see myself walk into a store a week or even a month after a major console release and just find a few in 2021.
Once I got the 3Ds I played a lot of them Resident Evil The Mercenaries 3D because i’m a big idiot and i love Resident Evil spell. I was excited too play RevelationsThe other memory I have at the launch of the 3DS was playing with the AR cards and games. Not more than a few days, but they were fun and fun to show to people.
The 3DS is the last Nintendo console I bought at launch. (But if that Switch 4k doesn’t get too pricey, I could buy a Nintendo system again on the first day. We shall see..While it is far from my favorite console, I still fondly remember my time with it. I even liked the 3D features. I left that slider on because it looked cool.
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What memories do you have of Nintendo 3DS? And who out there played that Revelations demo in the Mercs 3D much more than once?