Wait, I don't recall a Contra game confirmed for 3DS before. Amazon has made mistakes before (listing products that never ended up existing), hopefully this is not one of those mistakes since I would like a Contra game on 3DS.

There was apparently some mention of it back at E3. A cursory google search showed some very incomplete info. It was probably one of the many "Lists of Games" we saw splashed up in presentation slides.

Ah, OK. I just didn't recall ever seeing or hearing anyone talk about it.

Well if it makes you feel any better I sent out a "WOAH GUYS, STOP THE BUS" email to the staff asking about it.




Then I Googled it.




Go me.

Yeah, we've known about Contra for a while. But 2 days ago I almost rushed to post that Amazon was preordering for that and a a different Konami game thinking that Contra hadn't been announced yet, only to realize it was on the list of games from back in November.

Got my black system pre-ordered. I chose one-day shipping, which currently predicts that it will arrive on March 29th. However, Amazon typically ships video game products the day before their official release date, which in this case is a Saturday, so I should actually get on Monday the 28th.

I'm going to walk into my local store on Launch day and pick one up.

Gamestop has the 3DS available for pre-order too (at least gamestop.ca does) and its the same price for Canada! Go Canadian Dollar parity! Woo hoo!

Gamestop.com has the 3DS for pre-order, too.

hasn't gamestop had the 3DS up for pre-order since November though?
or was that just in-store?

Amamzon.com also has nintendogs+cats and Frogger 3DS (!) available for pre-order. No release dates for any of the games are posted.

Is $40 going to be the going price for 3DS games? I was hoping the iPhone's cheap app store would drive the average game price down.

You might've forgotten, but these 3DS games aren't cheap apps.

They started about a week or two ago, it was this month.

No it wasn't, because I did it in late December.

it was in December. I made the post the day it started.
but I'm sure it was in-store only.

Close enough.

If the Canadian prices are any higher (DS games currently sell at $40-45), I'm going to throw a fit.  You know, considering the Canadian dollar is worth more than the USD now.

Isn't the Canadian dollar worth something like a few cents more than the USD?
I remember someone pointing out the current conversion in some other thread.

Oh Canada...

Yes, and most economists are predicting it to remain in the range of 0 - 10 cents above parity for the next several years.

It was probably I who pointed it out, since I was already getting peeved that Wii games were getting price increases years after they were released.

The US and Canadian dollars are basically equal. The difference right now is less than half a penny. $1 US equals $0.9958 Canadian.

Yay, same price for us. It's been a while since I've been at EB, but I'm probably just going to pick it up at Future Shop.

Pre-order done and done (in black, of course)...no more ice blue DS Lite for me, thank you very much...until I want to play Zero Mission again, that is...

I'm waiting to see what sort of trade-in deals are offered.  Though, I guess they won't make much of a dent this time, given the price jump.

Apparently Japan didn't get the memo. 260+ in line for preorder. Gamestop would kill for this.

$260 is still sounding a little steep for me...
Oh well. I'll get one in 3 years when the prices drop and the 3DS lite XL comes out.