ModernTenshi04

Holy crap, with the wall adapter/extender you can give your PS3 and 360 .11n connections for less than Microsoft's own .11n dongle for the 360.

This is assuming, of course, that the Ethernet jacks on the adapter are gigabit jacks.

Still pretty sweet, though.

Some friends of mine had this added to their plan a month or more ago, I think as part of some trial. You don't get the movies and games for one flat rate, it's an additional $7/month per game you want to have out at a time. Cheaper than GameFly, but still.

My friends noted that the whole time they had games in their queue, NONE of them were sent to their homes, and there was even several weeks where they didn't receive a single movie in the mail.

They're seriously considering switching to Netflix.

I love Netflix streaming. While my connection isn't fast enough for full on HD streaming, I'll still get 3 of the 4 bars, which is good enough to be watchable for streaming as far as I'm concerned.

I tend to stream more things from Netflix than I pull in via disc, so this will be awesome.

Coupled with getting my Hulu Plus invite a few weekends ago, my PS3 is working overtime.

As someone who got his Hulu Plus invite a few days ago, I would love for this to happen.

@HateEveryBody

I have a job, I work as a software engineer, which pays a very nice salary.

The price is still way too high for a handheld. The PSP didn't sell nearly as well as the DS did out of the gate. Considering the PSP to date has only sold just shy of 60 million units, where as the DS has sold north of 130 million, I'd say price has a pretty big factor. The DS is cheap, fun, and eventually had tons of great games. The PSP has some slick software, but the price points were just too high for too long.

@HateEveryBody

Totally felt the same way about the PSP when it came out, though at the time it was also too high a price to ask for a new gaming system from a company who had never done portable gaming before. This isn't like the GameBoy when it first came out, because it was an already well established market where Nintendo was still king.

Other than improved graphics, a 3D top screen, and a joystick, the 3DS isn't too terribly new from the current DS.

My argument is that if Nintendo wants the same level of success they've experienced with the DS, pricing it that high won't get them there.

$200 is more appropriate. Drop the DS Lite from production, possibly the DSi as well, or drop the price on the DSi and DSi XL.

I'm pretty serious when I say I'll wait for the inevitable next hardware revision if the system arrives at $250 or more.

@TareG

So what? Awesome, it'll have better graphics than the Wii.

On a small screen.

Sure, it can fit in your pocket, but it's a gaming system, and outside of hardcore gamers, most people won't want to swallow that kind of price for a handheld. They'll have a tough time marketing it to their touch generations crowd to upgrade, and parents will find it hard to swallow buying multiple systems for their kids.

Most people feel that 3D is a gimmick anyway. Nintendo might be able to make it cool, especially since it won't require glasses, but still. Sure the next Sony handheld supposedly won't be 3D, but Sony's copied Nintendo plenty of times before (remember, within 8 months of Nintendo announcing the Wii and its controller, Sony announced motion controls for their PS3 at the following E3), and could produce a system that's more in line with being an entertainment system, akin to the PS3.

$250 to $300 for a handheld is just obscene.

$249 to $299 for a handheld would be crazy for Nintendo to do. That would price it far higher than the Wii.

Should those be the prices, I'll just wait for the inevitable hardware rehash Nintendo always does.

Seriously, that would be way too much for a handheld, even from Nintendo.

Only took them 7 years.

Anyone else find it odd that Gmail came out of beta before Apple added extension support to Safari?

That kind of cash on a new model car is kind of crazy for most people to consider, especially since cost of ownership and resale value are completely unknown at this point.

Nice to see it's actually got a price, though, and will be available to those who want one.