{"id":10335,"date":"2011-02-26T08:44:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T06:44:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"nintendo-3ds-goes-on-sale-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/10335-nintendo-3ds-goes-on-sale-in-japan","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo 3DS goes on sale in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[The sale is] ahead of a global rollout, and analysts say it promises to be the world&#8217;s first 3-D mass-market product.<\/p>\n<p>The 25,000 yen ($300) handheld went on sale in Japan on Saturday. It goes on sale in Europe on March 25 for 250 euros, and arrives in the U.S. on March 27 for $250.<\/p>\n<p>Kyoto-based Nintendo Co. is banking on the 3-D technology as sales momentum gradually fades for earlier hits such as the Wii home console and predecessor DS models.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo is expecting to sell 4 million of the 3DS machines through the end of March &#8211; 1.5 million in Japan and the rest overseas. Analysts expect Nintendo to meet that target.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/10577-3DS-priced-and-dated-yikes\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Discuss the Nintendo 3DS\">Discuss the Nintendo 3DS<\/a> <\/strong>on the MyGaming forum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo&#039;s latest game machine, offering glasses-free 3-D images, has gone on sale in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}