I have seen lots of custom modification to turn a retro SNES console into a portable version, but haven’t really found one that is actually a real made-from-factory portable SNES game console yet. Luckily, if you are a SNES super fans, soon you will be able to get this SupaBoy from Hyperkin because they’ll launch first non-modded (by users) portable SNES console in this Summer.

The shape of SupaBoy is actually using the retro Super Nintendo Controller design. At the back side, you can slide in a Super Famicom cartrdige and the fun begin after you’ve hit the ON button. There is a 3.5-inch screen, two-axis directional pad, Y/X/A/B buttons, LR button, as well as two port for connecting external controller.

SupaBoy has built-in battery that you can use it for about 5 hours of gaming, and if you are looking to play your game on a larger display, there is an AV connection at the rear side that you can plug it into your TV.

SupaBoy portable pocket SNES console is going to cost $79.99 when it has been available.

[via Winarco and GadgetsIn]

SupaBoy Portable Pocket SNES Game Console
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Wonder why Sony has to adjust their pricing that often. After their announcement of NGP the nexgen portable console, Sony has dropped the price of PSPgo from $199.99 to $129.99. That was a great news for gamers who haven’t upgrade themselves with PSPgo. Even the bundled pack with games are only price at $159.99.

However, if you’ve late to notice this deal, you can’t get it anymore with the lower pricing. As of today, Sony has lifted the PSPGo price back to $199.99 again. Even the bargain master Amazon has them for $224.99 (black version) and $181.80 for the white version. Going to GameStop won’t help much either.

It seems Sony is teasing the market and there is a possibility that after NGP officially launched, PSP Go pricing will be lowered down back to $129.99.

[via GamerTell]

PSPgo Price Goes Up Again? It’s $200 Now.
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Although it’s been set for per-order on some retailers like Amazon and BestBuy, the full details of what’s Nintendo 3DS is capable of or what’s the features that will come along is still a mystery. However, folks at Wired has obtained a little bit more details for this new gaming device that will launch on March 27th, 2011.

During the interview with Nintendo, Wired guys has dug three important information for us:

• The 3DS has been confirmed to be region locked, with no way of unlocking it (bar illegally hacking the device)
• Games that have been downloaded can be transferred to other 3DS devices – but only for a limited number of times (if at all)
• 3D movies will be coming to the device (but more details will be announced closer to the launch)

It seems the rumor about the stronger anti-piracy protection turned out to be true. However, I believe nothing would stop hackers from exploiting new gadgets, even the strongest anti-hacker Sony Playstation 3 has been hacked and exploited like mad now.

But the important point is about the 3D movies. Nintendo 3DS might become the future most interesting portable 3D movie player.

Nintendo Has Given More Details On Their 3DS Handheld Console
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Nintendo 3DS has been official announced and the pricing has been set. Some of the retailers have started to taking pre-orders and today Amazon has also started to sell the pre-order, too!

The price is $249.99, with the shipping date set on March 27th, 2011. Although there is an issue in Japan about eye-fatigue and dizziness when using 3DS, there is no harm to tried out because not everyone will get the sickness.

The launching will be accompanied with 30 exclusive game titles with some of them already available for pre-order, too. So if you are a hardcore gamer with deep pocket, you can also order them directly on Amazon right now.

[via SlipperyBrick]

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Finally Nintendo is willing to spit out the long waited official announcement of their Nintendo 3DS 3D gaming handheld. The company has officially released both of the pricing and launch date of Nintendo 3DS, which will be on sale on March 27th 2011 in the USA for $249.99, while it will be arrived earlier on Europe market on March 25th for the price of £249.

If you have pre-order yours on the UK online retailers for £299, you might get some price correction when it has been launched.

Up to 30 different games will be available immediately on the launch date, which include the fighting games such as Super Street Fighter IV:3D Edition or the sport game like Pro Evolution Soccer 2011.

[via Engadget]

Nintendo 3DS: Arrive In March 27th For $249.99
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Even without official announcement from Nintendo, Lots of retailers have started to take pre-order of the Nintendo 3DS in the UK for £299.99. This has included BestBuy, The Hut, WHSmith, and Wollworths.

Nintendo 3DS is the next gen handheld gaming console that pioneering naked-eye viewable 3D display. The specification is also stronger than its previous generation, where it’s powered by 266MHz ARM11 processors, PICA200 133MHz GPU by DMP, has 64MB RAM, and 4MB of video RAM.

Although it looks pretty good for a next-gen portable console, The price £299.99 is quite expensive for the market. But Nintendo has the strong reason to price their new console higher than anyone else. Especially when 3D is the hot trend at the moment.

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Nintendo 3DS To Be Priced At £300 in UK
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Unlike their predecessors, Nintendo 3DS is using an advanced 3D (stereoscopic 3D) display that tend to drink more juice. That’s why it’s questionable if Nintendo 3DS is capable of providing reasonable amount of battery life in order to satisfied those hardcore mobile gamers.

Luckily, Nintendo recently has just released a chart that highlighted the core specification of Nintendo 3DS’ hardware, and it expert has generated some predictions that Nintendo 3DS will have battery life anywhere from 3 to 8 hours play time.

However, there is no detail that the predictions are made for the Nintendo 3DS machine running 3DS games (with full-blown 3D feature turn on) or running the old DS games. Of course, running both versions of games will have different result as 3DS games require a bit more power. It’s interesting to see how long it could be used to play games per charge.

[via TheCoolGadgets]

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If you are looking at what’s hottest in this year’s CES 2011, I guess I’ll direct you to this Sifteo Game Cubes that were sold out directly in the CES 2011 event last week!

What’s make it selling like a hot cakes, even it’s not really officially released yet? Well, I can understand to urge to buy one of this game gadget because Sifteo Game Cubes are just like a little magic cube that could let your kids (even adult!) have their good moments.

Sifteo Game Cubes are consist of 6 portable game cubes that looks a bit like an iPod Nano 6G, but these little guys are connected via a wireless USB transmitter to a PC in order for it to work properly. And what’s cool is the 6 game cubes can be used for interaction of a particular game, and each cube ‘knows’ how they are being held and moved thanks to motion sensors.

The display itself is rather small, at 128 x 128px, all you can get is a low-definition homebrew-like games to be displayed. But don’t underestimate it as the games are completely fun with the combination of the 6 game cubes.

Sifteo Game Cubes are available in a pack of three game cubes for $149. You will also get a charger station and transmitter in the box. Guess what, there is a chance that this Sifteo Game Cubes will nominated this year’s best Christmas gifts for kids!

[via EverythingUSB]
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If you believe in technology news leak information, here is a leaked Nintendo 3DS pictures and Video by a factory worker in China. The picture is showing the new Nintendo 3DS that will make its appearance later in this year in OFF condition, and another one of the picture is showing the SDK version.

We are not sure if the picture is just a dummy or the real Nintendo 3DS console. But it appears the leak is intended to make buzzes in the Internet before the actual device appears. Take a look at the following video for the leakage details:

UPDATE: Ops, the video have been removed.

Let’s hope it a real stuff and not a counterfeit product since we can see the SDK version of the device. Though it’s been revealed several times since last year’s CES 2010, there is no obvious change in the design (Nintendo said it ‘should’ have some change with the one demoed last year with the final retail version).

[Kotaku via TheCoolGadgets]

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According to what we are heard over at Engadget and NeoGAF, the rumor about the pre-order for Nintendo 3DS is true. You can now starting to place your pre-order at any local GameStop store that you can find at your area and you’ll have to place a small amount of deposit fee at the prove of your pre-order. Depending on your location, some store will ask for $25 or $50 for the Nintendo 3DS that has yet to reveal the retail pricing.

Also, the official launching date is not given yet. It’s been expected to be around the early Q1 of 2011, but it’s only a groundless prediction.

To refresh you up, Nintendo 3DS is the first handheld console that featuring glasses-free 3D display and it’s also a great improvement to its previous generation of DS and DSi machines. Nintendo 3DS can run all of the previous Gen’s games, and it’s coming with a higher specs that you could expect to have more realistic 3D gaming environment on Nintendo 3DS in the upcoming exclusive titles.

The specs are including 3.5-inch main display (800×240) with 3D, 3-inch (320 x 240) with touchscreen function, 266Mhz ARM11 processor, PICA200 133MHz GPU, 64MB RAM and 4MB of GPU RAM.

It’s been expected to be priced at $300, but we do hope it could be priced lower than PSP.

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If you have no planning to jump on the Nintendo 3DS bandwagon, then a DSi XL might still be a nice choice for you. If you haven’t got yours, here is a nice little deal for you to save 10% or about $17 off from the $169.99 listed price.

The deal require you to add the following coupon code at the checkout page to activate the 10% discount:

• R?58?$4XD28VVK

(expires: November 4th or after limited claims)

Get this Nintendo DSi XL Bronze now at Dell Home. (check latest price)

Save 10% on Nintendo DSi XL Bronze [coupon]
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Ops, it seems the last speculation about Nintendo 3DS release date is a little bit mis-schedules. The gaming handheld is going to appear in this February 16th 2011 in Japan, not this on November 2010.

Nintendo officially announced this news, and it’s set to release for 25,000 Yen or about $298 USD. So when US and Europe market to get this new Nintendo 3DS? It’s on the early March 2010.

The official announcement also revealed some of the Nintendo 3DS highlighted features and capabilities. Two of the most interesting features that will be enjoyed by gamers in this Spring is the ability to take face photo with its front-facing dual-lens camera and convert it into the Mii version. The Mii data then could be edited via Mii Studio in the Nintendo 3DS.

Other features that come to my interest is the ability to scan for an augmented logo and translate it into a moving and popping 3D virtual animations.

Here is the official demo of Nintendo 3DS:

[via IGN]

Official: Nintendo 3DS Arrive On February 2011 In Japan, March For Both US and Europe
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For all of the Nintendo 3DS fans out there, here is a great news for you. It seems your favorite new 3D-ready gaming handheld a.k.a Nintendo 3DS is going to pop out in this November 11st, 2010 in Japan and follow up with the launch in Europe next Spring 2011.

This leaked information was provided by German tabloid, where the leak also reveal the pricing of the device, where the Nintendo 3DS is going to cost about 200 Euro or about $270 USD when it hit the country. You can expect to hear more news about Nintendo 3DS on Nintendo’s official Tokyo Press Event this September 29th.

[via SlipperyBrick]

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Made by Techknott, this portable gamecube console is absolutely a great modding to turn the old school console into a modern mobile gaming gadget!

As you may have known from the start, Nintendo GameCube has a big square box dimension. So, to be able to squeeze the component into a small and tight space is absolutely a state of art. While it’s compact, Techknott’s still allocated space for holding 5-inch LCD screen, 2 external controller ports, an AV output, and built-in memory card.

This is so cool and I’m sure most GameCube fans would love to get one of this. Well, you are lucky if you are one of them because currently, this item is up for sale in Ebay for £310 GBP (about $484 USD).

[via GadgetsIn, TechChee]

Portable GameCube Console Up For Sale In Ebay
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Dell.com has a special deal for PSPGo White model. If you want to buy it now, you can save up to $80 from the listed price of $249.99!

Price drop, huh? Well, it’s possible. But to be able to get the PSPGo for $169.99 only is truly magnificent for gamers! Hurry up if you need one, this deal will end on June 12th!

UPDATE: Even cheaper price has been found on our price comparison page! You can actually get the Sony PSPGo white for $149.99!

Save $80 on Sony PSP Go Handheld Console
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This is faster than what I’ve expected. It’s first announced that Nintendo 3DS gaming handheld will ship its first unit on March 2011 next year, but this news update is to tell you that you will be able to see it before Christmas holidays on October – this year!

If this news turn out to be true, gamers will be suffered from the multiple choices of new game accessories and console because Project Natal and PlayStation Move will also coming along around Fall 2010. The news was reported by ComputerandVideoGames.com, telling us that October will be the pre-launch date, a month that will give Nintendo the chance to have a fair head-to-head competition with Microsoft and Sony in the gaming market on this Christmas holidays.

To refresh you up, Nintendo 3DS is rumored to be the whole new series of Nintendo handheld console. It will be able to give you the 3D special effect on the screen (probably with Parallax Barrier Technology) without wearing any 3D glasses at all. And the best of all, the Nintendo 3DS will be fully backward compatible with old game titles from DS and DSi.

[via CVG]

Nintendo 3DS – Coming on October 2010
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Olivier Demangel, who has a decent skill as a 3D artist has created a nice concept that blend both Sony PSP and Nintendo DSi XL into a brand new conceptual Nintendo 3DS. This is not the actual product image for the real Nintendo 3DS, so you don’t have to be over-excited on the following images because it is purely a concept design made by Olivier.

Well, although it’s not the real Nintendo 3DS, at least Olivier Demangel think so. The Next generation of Nintendo handheld console should be powerful enough to handle most stuffs and it must include all of the feature that its predecessor has lacked of.

According to the designer, Nintendo 3DS will get a Huge screen with Non-glasses 3D display, it could be tilt like a netbook, has a range of exposed buttons such as the D-pad, analog stick and few buttons arrange neatly at the lower right corner for start, or level select. The power buttons of this Nintendo 3DS concept is located at the lower end of analog stick, a position where you can easy shut off the game when you’ve tired of playing. Amazing.

Check out more pictures below.

Well done, Olivier! I’d get one immediately if such kind of portable handheld console is available in the store!

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Wanna know what’s hidden inside the just released Nintendo DSi XL? Well, iFixit help us see the inner side by tearing it down from the case to the parts! At least we wouldn’t have to dissembled our own DSi XL now! If you haven’t got yours, check out the deal.

Well, here is the snapshots taken from iFixit, have a good look at them. If you think they are not real enough, smash open your DSi XL and you will get the real stuff.

Nintendo DSi XL Gets TearDown by iFixit
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If you have read our post about Nintendo’s latest venture on bringing the larger screen for DSi gamers (the DSi XL), you might want to check out Best Buy page because this handheld gaming console is now available at Best Buy. It says DSi XL will be coming on March 2010 has turned out to be true. There are Burgandy and Bronze model available at the sales page, costing $199.99 a pop. If you are interested, just click this link to hoop into Best Buy website.

Nintendo DSi XL Features:

• 93% larger screen compared to the Nintendo DS Lite system
• Includes bronze Nintendo DSi XL, rechargeable battery, AC adapter, stylus and four pre-installed titles, including Brain Age Express: Math, Brain Age Express: Arts & Letters, Photo Clock and Flipnote Studio
• Snap pictures with the two built-in cameras and modify photos using special camera lenses
• Listen to music with the built-in music player and record and play your own sounds
• Large screen size with wide viewing angles and full-size, easy-to-hold stylus enhances gameplay
• Download exclusive Nintendo DSiWare titles by connecting to the Nintendo DSi Shop, or browse the Internet (Internet connection required)

New Arrival: Nintendo DSi XL at Best Buy
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You might have read the news about Nintendo 3DS, the 3D handheld console where 3D images could be seen by bare eye. In the last post, we have no further detail yet. But today, thanks to GeekyGadgets we have gather more details on this magnificent coming soon 3D gaming console.

According to the details, Nintendo 3DS is going to re-use DSi XL model, where it will got 4.2 inch screen, and Nintendo 3DS will also coming with 3D joystick and force feedback, and there is a possibility that Nintendo 3DS will have its own motion sensing technology. This motion sensing will be able to detect users’ motion and translate it into something else useful for the game control. Sounds great!

Nintendo 3DS will be unveiled on June and it will begin selling in the shelf some time between the end of 2010 to March 2011 next year. Perhaps they are going to release along with Microsoft’s Project Natal which has been scheduled for this Year’s Holidays season.

Nintendo 3DS Handheld Gaming Console – More Details
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