Consumers and investors are both up in arms about Nintendo’s announcement that the 3DS would not be released until spring 2011 and would carry a $300 price tag in Japan. Defcon: Awesome takes a look at the EEDAR’s attempt to calm the hysteria and tries to determine just how badly Nintendo has messed things up.

If you bought some Nintendo stock (NTDOY) the day before E3 started at about $33 a share and sold it the day after E3 ended at about $39-40 a share, you would have made about a 20% profit on your investment in a weeks time. Not too shabby given the current state of the economy. [...]

While final specifications of the chip that will end up in production for Nintendo’s anticipated handheld the 3DS will remain unclear until announced, murmurs and comparisons have begun.  DMP has confirmed that their GPU, the PICA200, which utilizes a proprietary 3D drawing technology for stereoscopic images called MAESTRO, will be used in the 3DS.  Now [...]

After waiting in line for about 45 minutes to an hour yesterday, Creamy and I finally saw the Nintendo 3DS in action. Was it worth the wait? And will it be worth the hard earned money that you could instead spend on hookers and blow? The short answer is yes. This thing is way more [...]