Wired reports: "Nintendo has set a rock-bottom price point of $1.99 for eShop games. Of the three Game Boy games available, Super Mario Land will cost $3.99, and Alleyway and Radar Mission will cost $2.99."

The only two other pieces of software to come out are the 3-D enhanced version of Excitebike and an interactive Pokémon strategy guide.

Source: Wired

edit - Might as well copy the rest of the info pertaining to the eShop

Wired said:

Some applications will be free, though. The Pokédex 3D application will be free forever, and Nintendo is giving away the 3-D version of Excitebike for the first 30 days that the shop is online.

Wired.com got an early preview of the software, and found the eShop easy to navigate, with detailed search features that allow users to find and preview games. The eShop looks quite a bit like the 3DS’ home menu, a scrolling “shelf” of square icons, each of which represents a category of games.

Wharton says his group has a lot of flexibility in determining what categories to display on the shelf — it could use the interface to promote all the games in the Mario series, for instance, or to push two-player games, games that start with the letter W, etc.

Excitebike is the first classic game that will be given a 3-D facelift on 3DS, Nintendo said. It will be available for free for the first 30 days.

When you’re trying to decide on a game, you’ll be able to view up to six dual-screen screenshots and six dual-screen videos of each title. Nintendo has toyed around with the issue of whether to release demo versions of games, but Wharton did not show us any such functionality in the eShop demo.

If you already own games on your DSi, you’ll be able to transfer them over to your 3DS, Wharton says. When the eShop goes live, a System Transfer application will be uploaded to the DSi shop. You’ll download that to your DSi system, then use it to move the games over. Once you move the games over, they will be deleted from your DSi and left on your 3DS. If you have games on both a DSi and a DSi XL, you can transfer them all to a single 3DS, Wharton says.

The Game Boy games are simple ROM dumps of the classic titles with no tweaks. The only option players have is that they can view the games in solid black-and-white colors, or in the classic gray-and-green scheme that more closely mimics the original Game Boy’s low-power display. (Wharton pointed out that Super Mario Land and Alleyway were two of the games that Wired.com editors asked for in a recent feature. True enough. Only 28 more to go!)

Nintendo says it will add games from the TurboGrafx and Game Gear consoles later.

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ExciteBike is cool, but I thought LA was for the e-shop launch...?? Dang it, after the delay especially, there's no reason for it not to be!

Posted by

TriforceBun

on: 06/02/11, 21:12

Well, I'm guessing Nintendo decided releasing LA right before trying to sell OoT at retail for $40 was stupid. Also, that games like Radar Mission wouldn't sell against a game like LA.

Be sure to click the source, there are more impressions on the eShop, as well as Excitebike.

Posted by

Guillaume

on: 06/02/11, 21:16

Good to hear the eShop is nice and easy to navigate. Looking forward to try out 3D Excitebike.

I'm trying to decide if I want to transfer over my DSiWare games to the 3DS or not. I still use my DSi as my primary portable system, not sure if I want EVERYTHING on the 3DS. Decisions, decisions!

Posted by

GameDadGrant

on: 06/02/11, 21:25

The lack of options is disappointing. You can choose between green tint and black/white/grey. That's it. No remapping of the buttons, no extra colors (the way the Super Game Boy added colors), nothing.

Oh, and the save state is back. But that's it.

Posted by

Guillaume

on: 06/02/11, 21:37

at not all of the games being 3d....I won't bother buying the games I already own that STILL work on my brick gameboy and SP. Meh.


And I'm starting to think the 3d Links Awakening with come with Ocarina of Time 3d or the with the 25th anniversary

Posted by

Wellsy529

on: 06/02/11, 21:48

@Wellsy529

Link's Awakening won't be 3D.

The VC games were never, ever going to be in 3D, they've always been pretty clear about that.

Posted by

Guillaume

on: 06/02/11, 21:52

No remapping buttons is really disappointing. B+Y feels infinitely more natural than A+B. Even Super GameBoy and Super Mario All-Stars let you switch them. It's part of the reason I rarely play GBA games on my DS.

On the DS, I think it was impossible since it became a GBA, like the Wii becomes a GC. On the Wii VC, its similarly unnatural playing NES games on a classic controller, and it's a pain playing an SNES game claw-style on a GC controller, but between the GC, CC and Wiimote, you can make it work. And it might even sell more controllers - I know I got a CC mainly for SNES games.

But I'll probably buy less VC games if they don't fix this. I bought a lot of games I already own on the Wii VC for convenience sake, but if the controls won't be right, I won't buy those. Fix it, Nintendo.

@Wellsy529

I was never under the impression VC games would be 3D, just the 3D classics, which are separate.

Posted by

rebonack

on: 06/02/11, 22:05

Edited:

06/02/11, 22:09

@rebonack

If the "playing SMW or DKC on a GameCube controller" fiasco has taught us anything, it's that they won't fix the controls.

Posted by

Guillaume

on: 06/02/11, 22:11

Edited:

06/02/11, 23:03

Using the A/B buttons on the 3DS will be kind of annoying, but I really didn't find it too uncomfortable to play GBA games on my DS Lite a few years back. Not enough for me not to enjoy the games, anyway.

It makes more sense too, since all the in-game instructions and assignments will refer to the A/B buttons. There's less confusion that way for the players if the controls instead got mapped to Y/B. (either by default or optionally)

Posted by

GameDadGrant

on: 06/02/11, 22:54

@Guillaume

I would love it if they added the option, but I won't be surprised if (when) they don't. It just irks me. At least in the case of the Wii, you could argue they were trying to drive up Classic Controller sales.

@GameDadGrant

Yeah, but most video games nowadays include different control options, and the manuals still include a controller map (with the disclaimer that it refers to the default setting). Honestly, I realize it's not that big of a deal, and it won't stop me from buying the games altogether, but I'll probably not buy as many as I did on the Wii.

Posted by

rebonack

on: 06/02/11, 23:03

Why don't they allow Super Game Boy-style extra colors? That's dumb.

EDIT: That's bad enough that it may convince me never to buy a Virtual Console game on the 3DS. Playing a Mario game with "those" A and B buttons is horrible.

Posted by

X-pert74

on: 06/02/11, 23:05

Edited:

06/02/11, 23:06

X-pert74 said:

Why don't they allow Super Game Boy-style extra colors? That's dumb.

EDIT: That's bad enough that it may convince me never to buy a Virtual Console game on the 3DS. Playing a Mario game with "those" A and B buttons is horrible.

Actually, 1up says it's just the GameBoy Color palettes and stuff that won't be allowed. Super GameBoy will be up to publishers. I really hope 1up is right, but I wouldn't be surprised if we see no Super GameBoy at all.

"Support for games that offered Super Game Boy features will be left to the discretion of individual publishers."

Posted by

rebonack

on: 06/03/11, 00:39

I'm quite bummed about there being no Link's Awakening from the start, but I don't think I ever made it to the very end of Super Mario Land... so I'd love to have that game easily playable again. $3.99 is a fine price in my opinion. And I like Excitebike but only in small spurts so I'm glad we're getting it for free and in 3D. Otherwise I wouldn't pick it up.

Posted by

DrFinkelstein

on: 06/03/11, 01:08

I guess I'm the only person who never liked the Y+B button thing. I like my A button!

But the lack of colors makes no sense. It's not like implementation of that feature would be particularly complicated. Come on, Nintendo.

Price points look alright, though.

Posted by

kriswright

on: 06/03/11, 01:26

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06/03/11, 01:26

Guillaume said:

If you already own games on your DSi, you’ll be able to transfer them over to your 3DS, Wharton says. When the eShop goes live, a System Transfer application will be uploaded to the DSi shop. You’ll download that to your DSi system, then use it to move the games over. Once you move the games over, they will be deleted from your DSi and left on your 3DS. If you have games on both a DSi and a DSi XL, you can transfer them all to a single 3DS, Wharton says.

Urge to kill rising...rising...lowering...RISING

Posted by

sirmastersephiroth

on: 06/03/11, 01:48

Edited:

06/03/11, 01:49

@sirmastersephiroth
Why?

Posted by

anon_mastermind

on: 06/03/11, 01:54

Ok so I was one of the few to think they'd offer most if not all vc games in 3d...thats fine. do you think its that much work? And why Excitebike in 3d....gah.

Posted by

Wellsy529

on: 06/03/11, 02:42

@Wellsy529

In the case of Excitebike, yeah, it's that much work. They don't take the ROM and modify it. It's basically a new game programmed from scratch. It's in the link I gave.

Wired said:

Excitebike is a “rebuild,” says Wharton, programmed from the ground up without using the original NES game’s code.

Posted by

Guillaume

on: 06/03/11, 02:50

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06/03/11, 02:52

anon_mastermind said:

@sirmastersephiroth
Why?

I might have been useful to mention that I traded in my DSi as soon as The 3DS was revealed in E3 2010.

Posted by

sirmastersephiroth

on: 06/03/11, 03:00

@sirmastersephiroth
ACK! Urge to kill rising indeed...

Maybe call Nintendo and say you lost it?

Posted by

anon_mastermind

on: 06/03/11, 03:09