Even when you’re at a a fan convention packed with wall-to-wall gamers, it can be hard to find people playing Sony’s newest handheld. The fact that the Vita is so difficult to spot is just one bit of anecdotal evidence that the gaming portable is having a rough time. But does this mean it’s time for the price of the Vita to get slashed? Not necessarily.
Proving that he doesn’t need Community to be meta as hell, actor Jeff McHale dissects the anatomy of a viral video in this new commercial for Nintendo’s 3DS handheld gaming system.
This is Disney Epic Mickey: The Power of Illusion. It’s an upcoming game for the Nintendo 3DS. That’s Nintendo 3DS. Not Super Nintendo. Or Nintendo Entertainment System. Though I can see how you might be confused.
Gearing up for the release of Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, this week, part deux of Tetsuya Nomura’s interview was featured in Weekly Famitsu. Nomura discussed the latest in the Kingdom Hearts series (and added some more very vague references to Final Fantasy Versus XIII).
Weekly Famitsu hit the magazine racks today, and if you picked it up eagerly looking for more information about Final Fantasy Versus XIII in the interview with Nomura Tetsuya (more than just the leaked tidbits of info), well you were probably let down. If you picked it up looking for information on Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, you were well rewarded.
It’s pretty easy to mistake this video and the accompanying music for some bizarre, cheesy operational video of some kind, but then it sort of clicks that it’s a song made (almost) entirely of sounds made from the 3DS, and you’re like… wow.
This 3DS-assisted marriage proposal shows off the true purpose behind Nintendo’s handheld gaming system, which is considered an aphrodisiac in many countries.
We’ve had our PS Vitas for a while now, and some of you may have picked one up over the weekend, but what does the future hold for the traditional handheld device? Is the future bright, or are they part of a dying breed. Alex Kidman from Gizmodo and Mark Serrels of Kotaku discuss.