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Game Boy carts for Skype, YouTube, SoundCloud, and Apple, created by 3liter (click or larger images).

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[Via 3liter]

An informal Steve Jobs memorial set up outside of an Apple Store in London, shot by Super Jezmeralda.

Two news items about 3DS photography:

Nicolas M., one of the fellows behind the great GamOvr blog, set up a site called Threeds.me, where you can upload and share 3DS photos — he began working on it when 3D Porch was on the verge of shutting down. Nic admits that it’s a bit barebones at the moment, but he’s planning to add new features, and it’s got a neat adjustable focus tool.
3D Porch now allows you to add titles and captions to your photos, provided you’re signed in.

Wigglepics forever.

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[Via Super Jezmeralda]

“The 3DS is failing right now, more than any other reason, because of smartphones and tablets offering compelling gaming experiences. And when the iPhone 5 launches in the next several weeks, you can expect it to officially kill off the 3DS. … Here’s a news flash for you, Nintendo: consumers do not and will not care about the 3DS. And the iPhone 5, which will likely come with improved components to help deliver even better gameplay to owners, will make that abundantly clear.”

SlashGear’s Don Reisinger in an opinion piece magnificently trolling Nintendo/portable gaming fans.

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If Apple and Nintendo teamed up to design the 3DS — a mock-up by Major Kuro (click for larger images). The Apple branding looks tacky on the top lid, but I am digging the black and white scheme, and the subtle gray strip.

I’m surprised we haven’t heard about an ivory 3DS yet, considering the popularity of the Polar White DS Lite edition (seeing as it was the only color available for some time), and the swankiness of the Pure White DS Phat. The system should’ve launched with this color!

Along with this Apple design, Major Kuro created these rad renders of the 3DS with a Japanese artwork design, and a Piranha Plant popping out the 3D screen.

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“U.S. day-one sales numbers for Nintendo 3DS were the highest of any Nintendo hand-held system in our history.”

Nintendo on the 3DS’s day-one unit sales outperforming the Game Boy, GBC, GBA, DS, DS Lite, DSi, and DSi XL.

I thought everyone was supposed to be abandoning dedicated handheld gaming devices, and doing all their gaming on the iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad now?

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[Mii QR code via GoNintendo]

“The time of the DS is over now, and we may not see its like again.

The comically inflated prices of 3DS games, and Nintendo’s legendary incompetence and greed in the online arena, will more than likely conspire to deprive the new machine of the library of fun, accessible titles the DS has accumulated in its six-year life, and it seems destined to battle with Sony’s NGP rather than the iThings.”

Games journalist and iOS gaming advocate Stuart Campbell calling for “a valedictory salute to the DS as it shuffles towards the exit door”.

I’m not as down on the DS’s twilight years or the 3DS’s future as Campbell, but I do share some of his criticisms that he leveled at Nintendo and third-party publishers in his latest post, “Oh, poor DS, what did they do to you?”.

Chief among those shared griefs is the price of DS and 3DS games — while I won’t argue that there aren’t high quality games warranting a $30-40 tag (Dragon Quest IX comes to mind), that pricing seems untenable with the popularity of $1-3 iOS titles. I’m not asking retail DS/3DS releases to match that pricing, but real talk, charging $40 for a single-player, no-online Madden game is banoodles.

I had hoped the 3DS’s eShop would foster an environment for small indie developers to release App Store/XBLIG-style cheap games on the system to provide a low-priced entertainment option, but that seems unlikely now.

Preorder: Our 3DS Buyer’s Guide

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Nintendo's Reggie on competing with Apple, Zynga, and others for time»

Forbes has an interesting article on what Nintendo views as its competition — not other platforms like the Xbox 360 or PS3 but anything that takes time away from gaming:

Content. Ask Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime what gives Nintendo an edge and he’ll talk about content. And Nintendo needs all the edge it can get. Competitors are everywhere.

“It’s all about time,” Fils-Aime said during a stop by Forbes’ San Francisco offices Thursday. “I compete with Zynga, I compete with surfing the net, I compete with the newspaper.”

Oh, and then there’s Apple. … “Do I think that in the near term they can hurt us more than Microsoft?” Fils-Aime says. “Absolutely.”

Here’s where Nintendo has an edge, Fils-Aime says. The iPod and iPhone are great for casual games like Angry Birds that provide a welcome distraction. Games on the Nintendo DS, by contrast, can consume.

Fils-Aime admits he’s spent 150 hours playing Nintendo’s Dragon Quest.

I can see this struggle for gamers’ attention as one of the primary reasons why Nintendo is introducing the 3DS’s StreetPass and SpotPass features, as they’re designed to get people to carry their system with them more often, and check their 3DSes regularly for new content.

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[Image via Golfsim]

“What everybody seems to forget is that despite [their] popularity, the iPod and iPhone are not the number one portable entertainment platforms: it’s the DS, and those who forget that are silly. I don’t think Nintendo’s concerned with the iPod and iPhone, but they are very aware people make choices all the time, and the good thing is that you can still own both and do different things on them.”

Joseph Olin, president of the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, on whether he considers the iPhone a threat to Nintendo’s dominance of the handheld space.

By the way, in case you care about hardware sales, the Nintendo sold over 700,000 DS/DSi systems on the strength of Pokemon SoulSilver/HeartGold’s release and the XL’s launch. Once again, it was the top-selling platform out of all the home consoles and handhelds. Not bad for a system that’s supposed to be losing market share!

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Papercraft iPad presentation. This creation by Tubbypaws is better than both the actual iPad and the Apple event at which it was revealed by a real Steve Jobs. In fact, looking at it makes me almost, kinda, care about the iPad a little.

It would be a convenient device with which to show people pictures of this rad papercraft. Okay, back to my regularly scheduled total apathy toward the giant iPhone.

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata shares his opinion on Apple’s new iPad (alternate version available).

So long as I’m talking abot the iPad, I feel it’s my duty to post this video of Pee-Wee playing with the tablet:

See also: Calculator Boy > iPad

The iPad looks alright, but the Calculator Boy is a magical device in a class of its own. Along with its built-in (non-virtual) keyboard and insane battery life, it offers a wide range of useful and entertaining apps: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, boobless, etc.

Also, its 3G support isn’t tied to any carrier, so you won’t have to depend on AT&T’s shoddy network for your data plan. Day one purchase, y’all.

[Update: I noticed some people calling this a mod; it’s actually a real product that a company called Playthings sold years ago.]

[Via Alexis Sepúlveda]

“When the PSP and DS came out, they seemed so cool. But once you play on the iPod Touch, they don’t stack up anymore!”

Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller on the iPhone and iPod Touch’s superiority over the DS, PSP, and other past handheld gaming consoles.

Space Invaders: Infinity Gene is great and all, but real talk, the game Apple decided to show off shortly after that quote was a touch-controlled Halo clone… from Gameloft. Everyone knows that game is gonna be total Butt City, Population: a butt on your iPhone that you think is a game.

[Via GDGT]