Hello and welcome to my first blog. This is indeed very exciting for me as I have wanted to do this for a long time and help as many people out who are stuck and don’t know whether to purchase a product or not. So, without further ado please sit back and enjoy my review and thanks for showing support.
Ah Nintendo you have truly shaped the gaming world as we know it incorporating elements into your systems that have become so ground breaking they are still used by Microsoft and Sony to this very day. Well Nintendo have taken another bold step into the murky depths of 3d immersion. Oh sure 3d has been around for ages but it never really caught on. Remember the Nintendo Virtual boy? that huge red and black monster which was claimed to be a hand-held (yeah right) and caused migraines if used to long? Well maybe the less said about that the better. Well Nintendo have decided to give 3d another go and this time I think they have succeeded in their endeavour for 3d immersion gaming.
However, before I get into the 3d aspect of this console lets go over how it looks. I got my 3ds on launch day and have it ever since, the first thing I thought as I opened the box and peered in was "It looks just like my dsi only shinier" This is by no means a bad thing the 3ds is a compact,very nicely styled piece of kit. The only thing is if you have large hands it may prove difficult to hold, you know what they say about people who have big hands? Get a dsi XL, little joke there.... anyway I think Nintendo did an amazing job in fitting all the Tech inside this small shell. I got the black 3ds which I must say does look absolutely great in my eyes. As you probably know the 3ds is a clamshell design so lets flip the lid and see how it looks open.
The first thing you will notice is the huge 3.53 in (90 mm) 5:3screen which is capable of displaying 3d images. The next major thing I noticed was the analogue nub which is placed where the d pad was traditionally placed on systems of old. The d pad has moved below the nub however i don’t use this much. To the right you will find the A B Y and X buttons which are a good size unless you have huge thumbs which could overlap the buttons. The buttons themselves have a nice click to them and feel really responsive (something I thought was missing from the ds lite which had very mushy buttons). There is also a touch screen which measures in at 3.02 in (77 mm) 4:3 which does not display 3d images. Below this screen is a select, home and start button. I’m sure everyone reading this is familiar with at least start and select buttons but the home button basically takes you back to the home menu however unlike the wii which stops game play after pressing this button the 3ds basically suspends game play and allows you to continue playing on which is always good. To the immediate right is the power button. On the top portion of the 3ds is the really exciting part, the 3d slider. This lets u control how intense the 3d is (well get to see how fat Mario really is). Ill go over the 3d later. There are three 0.3 mega pixel cameras on the console the front 2 can take 3d pictures and the inner camera is only capable of 2d. This is where I think Nintendo could improve on the console. Only 0.3 mega pixels? my old Sony Ericsson K750i has 2 mega pixels. I can kind of get the reason behind the low quality but i would have payed a bit more for a good quality 3d camera but oh well ce la vie as they say in France. Well I think I have ranted on long enough about the aesthetics. Ill go over the peripheral now
There isn’t much in the way of peripheral but the most noticeable is the charging dock. The idea behind this is that you can simply drop the console into the dock and let it charge. Now, I may be nit-picking here but I think they could have scraped the idea of the dock and spent a bit more money on the a fore mentioned cameras or some other aspect of the console. I personally don’t really see the appeal of the dock its not all that hard to plug the charger in the back. Also it is very light and in my case I have hit the charging cable leading to the dock and knocked the console on the floor so just be careful of this. You will also receive a 2gb Toshiba sd memory card for saving pictures or whatever already installed into the 3ds so if you open the box up and don’t see a card you’ll know why. The last peripheral is one of my personal favourites. Its the augmented reality cards. These cards are used in conjunction with the 3d cameras and are able to display a virtual representation of that character on the card, also with the question mark card you can play 3d games ( my personal favourites are the dragon game and golf game but ill go over the software in my next review. I have high hopes for these cards and was thinking they would be great for games like Yu-Gi-Oh and the pokemon trading card game, what do you guys think?
The last thing I will go over is probably the most interesting part of the console, It is of course the 3d. When I got my 3ds I couldn’t wait to check out the 3d. First I charged it up (little tip, always let anything that has a rechargeable battery charge completely the first time because if you don’t the battery will think that it is completely charged when in fact it isn’t and wont be used to its full potential, I learned this from my dad who has been an electrician for around thirty years) then when it was fully charged I turned it on and the set-up screen appeared, I wont go into detail about what happens but needless to say when I first saw the 3d I was blown away I couldn’t believe it. It really is something you have to see for yourself. The technology used to pull the 3d effect of is called parallax barrier which basically sends two images to each eye to fool the brain into thinking its 3d. Like our depth perception of you close one eye the 3d effect goes away. As I mentioned above there is also a 3d slider to change the strength of the 3d or turn it off altogether.
You have probably read all the reports about the 3d messes up your eyes well let me put your mind at rest, I have played this thing for nearly eight hours straight to see what happens (the things I do for you lot) and nothing happened, no dizziness no exploding eyeballs, nothing. My eyes were a little tired but that’s to be expected after eight hours of staring at a screen.
So that concludes my first ever review, rest assured I will be doing a review on my games I got ut I want to wait as I have ordered another game of Ebay and want some time to play it. I wont spoil the surprise , I will also review the software built in the the system. In my opinion yes the 3ds is a good piece of kit if you have the money to spare id say go for it, but if your a bit low on funds id say wait until the price goes down and some really cool games come out, then I think the purchase can justify itself. Anyway thank you very much for taking the time to read this review. I hope this blog will become successful so I can help out as many people as I can about gadgets. I will be your test subject so to speak and hopefully will help you out. This is getting a little long so ill wrap up now, thanks for reading and have a nice day.
Ah Nintendo you have truly shaped the gaming world as we know it incorporating elements into your systems that have become so ground breaking they are still used by Microsoft and Sony to this very day. Well Nintendo have taken another bold step into the murky depths of 3d immersion. Oh sure 3d has been around for ages but it never really caught on. Remember the Nintendo Virtual boy? that huge red and black monster which was claimed to be a hand-held (yeah right) and caused migraines if used to long? Well maybe the less said about that the better. Well Nintendo have decided to give 3d another go and this time I think they have succeeded in their endeavour for 3d immersion gaming.
However, before I get into the 3d aspect of this console lets go over how it looks. I got my 3ds on launch day and have it ever since, the first thing I thought as I opened the box and peered in was "It looks just like my dsi only shinier" This is by no means a bad thing the 3ds is a compact,very nicely styled piece of kit. The only thing is if you have large hands it may prove difficult to hold, you know what they say about people who have big hands? Get a dsi XL, little joke there.... anyway I think Nintendo did an amazing job in fitting all the Tech inside this small shell. I got the black 3ds which I must say does look absolutely great in my eyes. As you probably know the 3ds is a clamshell design so lets flip the lid and see how it looks open.
The first thing you will notice is the huge 3.53 in (90 mm) 5:3screen which is capable of displaying 3d images. The next major thing I noticed was the analogue nub which is placed where the d pad was traditionally placed on systems of old. The d pad has moved below the nub however i don’t use this much. To the right you will find the A B Y and X buttons which are a good size unless you have huge thumbs which could overlap the buttons. The buttons themselves have a nice click to them and feel really responsive (something I thought was missing from the ds lite which had very mushy buttons). There is also a touch screen which measures in at 3.02 in (77 mm) 4:3 which does not display 3d images. Below this screen is a select, home and start button. I’m sure everyone reading this is familiar with at least start and select buttons but the home button basically takes you back to the home menu however unlike the wii which stops game play after pressing this button the 3ds basically suspends game play and allows you to continue playing on which is always good. To the immediate right is the power button. On the top portion of the 3ds is the really exciting part, the 3d slider. This lets u control how intense the 3d is (well get to see how fat Mario really is). Ill go over the 3d later. There are three 0.3 mega pixel cameras on the console the front 2 can take 3d pictures and the inner camera is only capable of 2d. This is where I think Nintendo could improve on the console. Only 0.3 mega pixels? my old Sony Ericsson K750i has 2 mega pixels. I can kind of get the reason behind the low quality but i would have payed a bit more for a good quality 3d camera but oh well ce la vie as they say in France. Well I think I have ranted on long enough about the aesthetics. Ill go over the peripheral now
There isn’t much in the way of peripheral but the most noticeable is the charging dock. The idea behind this is that you can simply drop the console into the dock and let it charge. Now, I may be nit-picking here but I think they could have scraped the idea of the dock and spent a bit more money on the a fore mentioned cameras or some other aspect of the console. I personally don’t really see the appeal of the dock its not all that hard to plug the charger in the back. Also it is very light and in my case I have hit the charging cable leading to the dock and knocked the console on the floor so just be careful of this. You will also receive a 2gb Toshiba sd memory card for saving pictures or whatever already installed into the 3ds so if you open the box up and don’t see a card you’ll know why. The last peripheral is one of my personal favourites. Its the augmented reality cards. These cards are used in conjunction with the 3d cameras and are able to display a virtual representation of that character on the card, also with the question mark card you can play 3d games ( my personal favourites are the dragon game and golf game but ill go over the software in my next review. I have high hopes for these cards and was thinking they would be great for games like Yu-Gi-Oh and the pokemon trading card game, what do you guys think?
The last thing I will go over is probably the most interesting part of the console, It is of course the 3d. When I got my 3ds I couldn’t wait to check out the 3d. First I charged it up (little tip, always let anything that has a rechargeable battery charge completely the first time because if you don’t the battery will think that it is completely charged when in fact it isn’t and wont be used to its full potential, I learned this from my dad who has been an electrician for around thirty years) then when it was fully charged I turned it on and the set-up screen appeared, I wont go into detail about what happens but needless to say when I first saw the 3d I was blown away I couldn’t believe it. It really is something you have to see for yourself. The technology used to pull the 3d effect of is called parallax barrier which basically sends two images to each eye to fool the brain into thinking its 3d. Like our depth perception of you close one eye the 3d effect goes away. As I mentioned above there is also a 3d slider to change the strength of the 3d or turn it off altogether.
You have probably read all the reports about the 3d messes up your eyes well let me put your mind at rest, I have played this thing for nearly eight hours straight to see what happens (the things I do for you lot) and nothing happened, no dizziness no exploding eyeballs, nothing. My eyes were a little tired but that’s to be expected after eight hours of staring at a screen.
So that concludes my first ever review, rest assured I will be doing a review on my games I got ut I want to wait as I have ordered another game of Ebay and want some time to play it. I wont spoil the surprise , I will also review the software built in the the system. In my opinion yes the 3ds is a good piece of kit if you have the money to spare id say go for it, but if your a bit low on funds id say wait until the price goes down and some really cool games come out, then I think the purchase can justify itself. Anyway thank you very much for taking the time to read this review. I hope this blog will become successful so I can help out as many people as I can about gadgets. I will be your test subject so to speak and hopefully will help you out. This is getting a little long so ill wrap up now, thanks for reading and have a nice day.
