I tried to get a 3DS just because I can

I waited 45 minutes in my car before Best Buy opened this morning just to see if I could get 3DS and to see if there were other people doing the same thing.  I was the only person waiting for Best Buy to open, and when I finally walked inside, it looked like they had 30 or so on display, but I'm fairly certain they had more in the back-- I should have asked an employee.  I grabbed a black one and tried to decide which game to buy.  None of them looked good.  The more and more I tried to decide the less it made me want a 3DS.  I ended up putting the damn thing back on the shelf and walking out.  Thirty minutes after opening, I was still the only person in the store.  Is this a typical opening day for a Nintendo handheld? Maybe everyone is still at church...

Or maybe people know if they wait a year, they'll have a better 3DS which can actually hold a charge.

when i went to pick mine up there was noone, i think the handheld is not creating much buzz like the original DS did? that being said, i bought mine at a Supermarket which is hardly interested in gaming 
 
that being said, i dont regret my purchase

" Or maybe people know if they wait a year, they'll have a better 3DS which can actually hold a charge. "

I should head over to my local BB and see if there's anyone getting it. They open in 20 minutes...

I feel the same. There is only one game that it has right now that I am interested in. THe rest of the games are reboots or children's stuff that i have zero interest in. TO me, it's a novelty item. For others it's the new hotness.

" I feel the same. There is only one game that it has right now that I am interested in. THe rest of the games are reboots or children's stuff that i have zero interest in. TO me, it's a novelty item. For others it's the new hotness. "

There were maybe 60 people at the midnight launch. I bought one and love it. Ya the games are not the greatest, I got Pilotwings, but the purchase has not left me with no regret. LOVE IT!!!!

We'll see what happens in a week before I make my call about this launch. I remember like a week after launch the DS was impossible to acquire, I went to like 6 different stores until I found one.  
 
But yeah I'm also waiting on a better version of it, and for a better catalog of games to show up. I have no real interest in the 3D outside of playing with it a bit as a gimmick, but I'm more interested in the 3DS as a follow up to the DS, which I love. And it all about the games, the DS hardware was ass, but the games were so damn good, it didn't matter. So hopefully when people get past the point of "Let's release the games we always release and then say 3D at the end of the tittle". and start making unique experiences for it, then I'm down for it. Took almost a year for the DS to get anything interesting for me.

"I bought one and love it. Ya the games are not the greatest, I got Pilotwings, but the purchase has not left me with no regret. LOVE IT!!!! "

" @krystians said:

"I bought one and love it. Ya the games are not the greatest, I got Pilotwings, but the purchase has not left me with no regret. LOVE IT!!!! "

So you love it but you also regret it? That pretty much sums exactly how mixed I am on this whole 3DS launch in the first place.  The littlest thing could convince me to go out and buy one yet I'm utterly certain that is a horrible idea and I will surely regret it.   "

If you re@normalpants said:

" @krystians said:

"I bought one and love it. Ya the games are not the greatest, I got Pilotwings, but the purchase has not left me with no regret. LOVE IT!!!! "

So you love it but you also regret it? That pretty much sums exactly how mixed I am on this whole 3DS launch in the first place.  The littlest thing could convince me to go out and buy one yet I'm utterly certain that is a horrible idea and I will surely regret it.   "

" @normalpants said:

" @krystians said:

"I bought one and love it. Ya the games are not the greatest, I got Pilotwings, but the purchase has not left me with no regret. LOVE IT!!!! "

So you love it but you also regret it? That pretty much sums exactly how mixed I am on this whole 3DS launch in the first place.  The littlest thing could convince me to go out and buy one yet I'm utterly certain that is a horrible idea and I will surely regret it.   "

All new consoles is scary, that is how it always goes. "

Pretty bad for a Nintendo handheld launch. It's a bad combination all around, though. Bad games, bad battery life, bad price. No buzz.

The backwards compatibility killed it for me. So I'll wait until later on to pick one up.

The original DS (and the Wii) came out right before the holiday season. I'm not at all surprised that there isn't the same sort of rush to get a million units as there was for either of those (not to mention that I think 3DS supplies are better than either of those other systems were).

I got one today just for the fact that my DSi's shoulder buttions were broke, I traded in my DSi (which they took and gave me full value for it cause they didn't check the shoulder buttons) and a bunch of games I will never play again and only had to shell out 75 buck.  So for me it was worth it.

I don't think that many people wait at stores these days when Amazon can have the thing to my house at launch day.

i picked mine up in the UK from GAME they only had 2 of the black ones left and this was the Day after Launch, got RR 3D with it, im happy so Far and the battery life isnt as bad as everyones complained about 

SSF4 and that Tom Clancy strategy game looks like the most compelling reason to own a 3DS at the moment.

When to my GameStop this morning and there wasn't anyone there.  When I was checking out, a mom and her two kids and two dudes came when I left.  I guess that's a few here in my town.  I think my Walmart may have done a midnight release for it, but I'm not sure.

There were a shitload of people at the walmart when I went to go get it

i didn't know that it came out today. i think it might be having to do with people not knowing. maybe a lot of people bought it online instead of going somewhere to buy it.

I would take one if it was given to me, but I have no desire to buy one. When ever a new platform comes out I always wait until it has at least 4-5 games on it that I really want to play, and in the case of a Nintendo handheld I also wait for version 2.0.

" Or maybe people know if they wait a year, they'll have a better 3DS which can actually hold a charge. "

I had one in my Amazon cart and was on the order page but couldn't pull the trigger. The battery life issue is the deal breaker but the underwhelming launch games and price don't help it's cause.

I know nothing of the current sales, but if they haven't picked up yet, they will. Honestly, given the games they've launched with, I think gamers will need more incentive to jump away from the DS which is full of quality titles. Nintendo launching this system without one of their games, ie Mario or Zelda seems like a bad idea, especially with Pokemon launching at the beginning of March. I'm going to hold off for the first redesign myself.

I got one just because I could and I love it so far. Ghost Recon is pretty damn good, but it's all about AR Games and Face Raiders.

Some factors that may have contributed to the slow start:
 
The original DS came out in 2004 and sold out on the spot day one. Then, six months passed before any worthy software hit the shelves. I think (or would like to think) that game buyers are getting more savvy about this fact and holding off until the shelves fill up.
 
As a further point, the original DS came out while its predecessor, the GBA SP, was still in full swing. If you check sales charts, it does appear that the DS is on a decline right now, so there's not as much forward momentum driving this launch.
 
Similarly the original DS launched in November, a traditionally busy time for hardware sales. March hasn't seen the launch of many devices (granted the PSP's launch in 2005 was a March launch, but that handheld was a completely new competitor).
 
The great thing is, if you follow the original DS's 6 month game delay, that would put the 3DS's heavy game slate to hit in the fall, when the systems may end up being harder to find. By that logic, picking one up now while hype is low may actually work to your advantage by the time Thanksgiving rolls around.

I was indeed at church. God does not approve of this newfangled technology.

I went to pick up some dog food yesterday at Wal-Mart and there were STACKS of 3DS's. It's simply not selling.