It's a bit premature to claim total defeat just yet, Owen. Proceedings in the USPTO are still active, and he still holds most of the trademarks, nobody has squeezed any compensation from him and his companies aren't bankrupt. Yet.
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Seems to me this is an entirely good thing, except for speculative buyers. Means the 3DS isn't underpriced relative to supply and demand, so leaving money on the table for the grey market.
@cmdluke:
It won't do well. Needs to be on the HD consoles.
@Steven Callas: Sorry if I came across ratty Steven (and I can see you are kind of busy at the moment). Just a quick check - you mean, I suppose, that the email address needs to be there for a password RESET (where I;ve forgotten it and you have to make a new one) but not for a password CHANGE (where I type it in…
@phisheep: Plus, I just noticed that on the profile page where you get to change email address it says "Email address: (not revealed to others)"
Right now, there's no email address associated with my account. Probably just as well there wasn't.
@forter: In the absence of anything official, I'll have a go!
@striderhayasa002: Dammit. Wish I'd read that before I changed password. Now might have to stay logged on all night just in case.
@Mozz-eyes: Well, yeah it is.
@subnet6: That sounds reasonable. I think there's another reason too - which is kids going away to college every year.
Really Kotaku. This and humping Xboxes in one day. What is the world coming to? Harrumph. I cancel my subscription immediately.
The man needs to go back to 2001 and read Ernest Adams' articles for Gamasutra on this very topic.
@Jeff Brown: Yep, same thing
@NecronomiconUK: And that doesn't include the Gameboy, which last I heard was also a gaming platform.
On the calibration issue - of course it needs constant calibration. It has gyros, and all gyros drift and need calibrating - there's no way around it.
@gametr4x: