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Too expensive, Nintendo. The 3 DS launched at $249.99 in this country. The new machine is a hardware upgrade from the DS hardware, and this goes for more than screen. In Layman's Terms let's just say the DS had roughly the graphics capabilities of a Nintendo 64. The 3 DS has roughly the graphics capabilities of a Gamecube . So it is a "Next-Gen" handheld from Nintendo. Then of course the quite fantastic 3D screen. The ability to take 3D photos. Downloadable games, the fairly useless Nintendo Video, other various apps available and more on the way. The machine didn't launch with the Nintendo Store, but it is there now, and we knew it was coming. Nope, none of that mattered. The machine launched at $249.99, fell on it's face, then immediately took off when Nintendo cut the price to $169.99. Now, we have to ask, "Why the hell didn't Nintendo just launch the thing at $169.99 in the first place?" And our question would be a really, really good ...

With the advent of devices like smart-phones and tablets came the concept of gaming content via download only. As Nintendo continued to feed physical cards into bays on their handhelds and Sony brought the doomed-from-the-start UMD format to it's device, smart-phones and tablet devices grabbed 5% of the handheld gaming market in about a year. Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo all provided gaming content via download for their home consoles. Stopping to assess this area of my collection, I noticed something. I actually have more downloaded games for each of the current-generation consoles than I do store-bought games. We all know it, it's happening right under our noses... the days of walking into a store to buy a video game are fading. But will they ever completely fade? Certainly there will always be a percentage of gamers who will not want or be able to connect their machine to the internet . Perhaps they just can't afford it, or perhaps they don't like the idea of th...

Recorded history has been around for approximately 7,000 years. Modern man has only been around for a brief time in the grand scheme of things. In our history there has been much bloodshed, disease, famine, and the like. Mankind's progress, for the most part, has been slow. We are resistant to change. We are scared of new things. But every now and then a person or group of people come along that are head-and-shoulders above the rest of the population. They have an idea or a technology that changes the world. The Industrial Revolution changed the world. The combustible engine changed the world. Flight and space flight changed the world. And computers changed the world. It was a group of people from Silicon Valley in the 1970s that changed the world. One of those men was Steve Jobs. Steve was actually one of those at the front if not the very tip itself. A genius with a vision, and in America that kind of thing is regarded with a sense of awe. Certainly it has been said about men wh...