{"id":16285,"date":"2011-01-19T13:49:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T17:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=16285"},"modified":"2011-01-19T14:17:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T18:17:17","slug":"justins-japan-nintendo-3ds-comes-to-america-march-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/01\/19\/justins-japan-nintendo-3ds-comes-to-america-march-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin&#8217;s Japan: Nintendo 3DS Comes to America March 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16286\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Nintendo-3DS.jpg\"><em><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16286\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16286\" title=\"Nintendo 3DS\" src=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Nintendo-3DS-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Nintendo-3DS-300x257.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/Nintendo-3DS.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/strong><\/em><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3D gaming becomes reality when the Nintendo 3DS hits stores March 27. (Nintendo Co., Ltd.)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>By <\/strong><\/em><a onclick=\"pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/jetaany.org');\" href=\"http:\/\/jetaany.org\/magazine\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>JQ magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong>\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/justin-tedaldi\/6\/8b0\/332\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Justin Tedaldi<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page <\/strong><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/japanese-culture-in-new-york\/justin-tedaldi\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>here<\/strong><\/em><\/a><em><strong> to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/\">Nintendo<\/a> announced at a press event today (Jan. 19) that its newest handheld video game console, the Nintendo 3DS, will be available in North America on March 27 for $249.99, hitting stores less than a month after its Japanese debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 3DS is the latest incarnation of Nintendo\u2019s portable DS series, which have sold more than 135 million units worldwide since 2004, making it second to Sony\u2019s PlayStation 2 in total sales. Nintendo\u2019s hook this time that should push them over the top employs a method called <a title=\"Autostereoscopy\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Autostereoscopy\">autostereoscopy<\/a>, which provides gaming on a special screen without the need for 3D glasses.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other features include special <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Augmented_reality\">augmented reality games<\/a>, backward compatibility with other DS titles, a <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Virtual_Console\">Virtual Console<\/a> service for users to purchase Game Boy and Game Boy Color favorites, 3D movie support, StreetPass and SpotPass mode for wireless and Internet gaming, and a Mii Maker that creates a Mii avatar based off a photo taken with the 3DS\u2019 built-in camera. Other interactive functions, like a pedometer and a 3D camera on the back of the device, are expected to increase the console\u2019s appeal to non-gamers as well, according to Nintendo of America\u2019s president Reggie Fils-Aime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/japanese-culture-in-new-york\/nintendo-3ds-comes-to-america-march-27\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for the complete story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JQ magazine\u2019s\u00a0Justin Tedaldi (CIR Kobe-shi, 2001-02)\u00a0for Examiner.com.\u00a0Visit his NY Japanese Culture\u00a0page here to subscribe for free alerts\u00a0on newly published stories.\u00a0\u00a0 Nintendo announced at a press event today (Jan. 19) that its newest handheld video game console, the Nintendo 3DS, will be available in North America on March 27 for $249.99, hitting stores less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,30,340],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-japan-trends","category-justins-japan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-4eF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16285"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16293,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16285\/revisions\/16293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}