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You won’t be able to snap one up at your local GameStop for a full month, but the Nintendo 3DS had a solid launch in Japan today, reportedly liquidating nearly its entire initial shipment of 400,000 spiffy stereoscopic gaming handhelds by the end of the day. Some of those sales were to customers waiting in a few lines up to 2,000 persons long, but those lines were exceptions to the norm — several publications note that very few stores actually had any lines to speak of, as most Japanese electronics retailers sold out when the 3DS went on pre-order over a month ago. Get a refresher on what to expect from the system here (and here) or read all about the surprisingly orderly Japanese launch at our source links.

Update: Our friends at Engadget Japanese were on hand for the 3DS launch, and picked up a pair of systems themselves — get a closer look at one of the first retail 3DS units in the gallery below!

Nintendo 3DS launches in Japan, populace tears through initial 400,000 unit shipment originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 26 Feb 2011 21:32:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Sony is treating its portable gaming fans well these days by giving them the one-two punch of having both a world-beating device to look forward to in the future and an affordable one to pass the time with until then. Starting this Sunday, the venerable PSP-3000 will be yours to own for just $130, taking it dangerously close to impulse buy territory, while Sony is also adding a few more titles to its $20 PSP Greatest Hits collection, including Assassin’s Creed: Bloodlines, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker and LittleBigPlanet PSP. Skip past the break for the full press release and the new ad video to promote the cheaper portable.

Continue reading Sony PSP dips down to $130, wants to be your cheap thrill until the NGP gets here

Sony PSP dips down to $130, wants to be your cheap thrill until the NGP gets here originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 25 Feb 2011 11:48:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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We’re pretty certain that once embedded wireless sensors catch on, they’ll pervade every aspect of our lives, and Green Goose is building a microcosm of that eventuality in the form of a role-playing game. The five-person SF Bay Area startup has embedded custom 915MHz radios and MEMS accelerometers in a variety of tiny transmitters which you can mount to household objects — like a water bottle, bicycle, or the toothbrush above — which report back to the receiver with your actions and thereby increase your score. Brush your teeth on time, take your vitamins, or exercise repeatedly within a couple hundred feet of the receiver, and you’ll eventually level up. (Or, optionally, muck with the sensor just right, and it’ll register points anyhow.) Presently, that level isn’t worth anything, but founder Brian Krejcarek says there are tentative plans to tie these points into a real game and an API to build the idea out, and he’s presently looking for partner companies here at the Launch Conference in San Francisco to help roll out the sensors (which cost approximately $4 each) under branded marketing initiatives of some sort. If you don’t want to wait, the company will sell starter kits starting February 28th for $24. Not bad for a head start on the future, right?

Update: VentureBeat reports that Green Goose raised $100,000 in funding at the conference. Another interesting note: ReadWriteWeb reports that the sensors were originally pitched as a money-saving tool.

Update 2: $100,000, not $100 million. Whoops.

Green Goose sensors monitor your life, you earn experience points (update) originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Oh, this isn’t weird at all! The Kissing Controller, an experimental project by one Hye Yeon Nam, is designed so that players of a bowling game can impart power and direction to their spherical projectile by performing the timeless act of smooching one another. A customized headset is required for one of the participants, acting as the input receiver, while the other straps a magnet to his or her tongue and goes to town with some literal full motion controls. Thrust is added to the on-screen ball in accordance with how vigorously you move your tongue around, something we’re sure your partner will appreciate. Video after the break.

Continue reading Kiss Controller lets you play a bowling game with your tongue… while it’s in someone else’s mouth (video)

Kiss Controller lets you play a bowling game with your tongue… while it’s in someone else’s mouth (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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This article was written on November 17, 2006 by CyberNet.

So the Playstation 3 gaming machine is finally out! Millions of people have stood outside stores and malls for hours upon hours just to be one of the first to get their hands on the $600 PS3. From the looks of it there are around 8,000 of those people who didn’t even buy the system for themselves!

Yep, eBay is the marketplace for these bad boys right now with average selling prices floating between $2,000 and $3,500. And then there are always the jokesters that are paying over $20 million for a system. It actually looks like it may have been worth standing in line to pick one of these up because I know I could have found a place where 8-hours would have been plenty soon enough…and then I would be guaranteed to profit nearly $1,400! That’s almost $200 per hour that I would have made for standing in line. The 30 degree (Fahrenheit) weather doesn’t make that very appetizing though.

Now we’re moving on to the Nintendo Wii which is shipping on Sunday, November 19th. People who have reserved the system are selling their pre-order on eBay but it doesn’t even come close to the insane prices that the Playstation 3′s are going for. The Wii pre-orders look like they’re selling for $600-$1000 on average.

I just can’t get over how much people pay for a video game system. At a minimum price of $500 for the Playstation 3, along with the very low supply and high demand, I don’t think a lot of parents will be thrilled this year when kids ask for a new system for Christmas. Sony has had good timing to get this released in time for the holidays but there is no way that they will be able to keep up with the demand. I imagine that, much like the Xbox 360, the stores will be constantly stocked with these systems by February…so if you want one you should just sit tight and hold on to your wallet!

Thanks to MetaMan for reminding me to post about this!

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