Official Nintendo 3DS Release Date annouced
One of the Message Forums users, Red9378, has done the extra mile and posted the official release dates for the Nintendo 3DS. The final console design can be seen above.
Release Dates:
Japan: February 26, 2011
US and Europe: March 2011
The price tag will be around $300 US Dollars. It remains to be seen when the release date will be for Australian Markets. There’s currently 2 colors on offer, Cosmo Black and Aqua Blue; and a Virtual Console library of classic Game Boy Advance, Game Boy Color and normal Game Boy games. An SD Card is also included in the box.
Nintendo 3DS Security more paranoid than ever…
It seems that the big N, Nintendo, has decided to take a massive swing at the Nintendo DS piracy and homebrew scene, and as a result, locked down the Nintendo 3DS firmware with security checks and other tricks to prevent unauthorized tampering.
The 3DS is to feature a upgraded version of the Nintendo Wii’s and Nintendo DSi/DSi XL security system, which Nintendo describes it as “uncrackable”. The 3DS apparently performs a lot of checks that make sure that the code being executed on the system is genuine, and not exploited (which some boot game backup on DS Phat solutions such as PassMe have taken advantage of in the past).