Sometimes I love how delightfully oblivious my local grocery store is to magazine dates. They put out this month’s Gamepro a little bit early (I took this about four days ago — forgot to post it) and there’s a yet unannouced detail included in one of the articles. Have a look:
There’s two possibilities. The first is that the author is simply taking a stab and the editor decided it wasn’t worth taking out. The second is that the print-staff of Gamepro magazine have been told the specifics on the launch date and pricing and it just hasn’t been made public yet. I tend to think it’s fairly likely since print mags often get information ahead of websites to support their publishing schedules. Right now, this is the only solid, authoritative piece of journalism that provides a solid price.
The most likely answer here is that the magazine was set to be put on shelves AFTER an official announcement was to come. We already know that the system is set to launch in March (no specific date yet), so pricing information was sure to come any time now. What boggles me, though, is that — if this is the case — the magazine wouldn’t have made a bigger deal out of it. Finally, they have hard details on one of the most anticipated pieces of gaming hardware in the past few years and they only give it a couple pages of “watch these hot games” to do it justice? That just doesn’t make sense from a “hey, you should really buy this magazine instead of Googling all of this instead” perspective.
Ah well. Maybe it’s nothing.
Now we come down to it, though. Now that the 3DS is a possibility for the near future — and costs as much as a PS3 — will you buy it? I’m a little hesitant on that price tag. In a year, I bet we have a new, better version for $250 if not $199.
What say you?
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