whoever churns these gadgets out must rub their hands with glee knowing that there are so many out there who simply Must have the latest gadget-- but really is it worth it? are they so much better?

same with mobiles etc, when will the public ever be satisfied? who pays for every new model? Is it really necessary?

It's not necessary, but I think it's just that when some one see's something new, they want it. Well... at least thats how I am. And also I think it's a bit of "shame" maybe? When ever you see someone texting, they have the newest phone or something, and I wouldn't wants to take out an "antique" phone then. Maybe it's the same with the DS?

I see no problems with the 3DS it seems pretty interesting. From what I saw in the E3 video you can, play DS games on it, games made for the 3DS, you can watch movies on it, and a few other things I forget.

There is even going to be a TON of RPGs for the system, I can't WAIT for that!! Oh and I think you can also use the 3DS to watch anime on. I hope, it still has the SD card slot so you CAN do that.

I'd be awesome to be able to reach out and touch the your favorite character, and beat up the characters you hate XD.

Oh, and if it still has that loop hole in the system you can download games that you don't have and play them on the system TOO!!!

I bought my DS Lite for almost 3 years, so I don't feel really piss off by this.

But I imagine if I just bought the i or i-XL recently, now I may feel like

-"Oh S....t, I just bought my DS then next generation DS is coming, then I have very few time to play the original DS game before having to migrate to 3DS because no new DS games coming out."

It feel like when PS2 came out and I still play PS1 with no new great game coming out for PS1.

I don't care about the system upgrade that much, so I didn't buy DSi because I feel like it's still the same platform as DS and DS-lite, but I think I gotta buy 3DS someday because at that time there won't be new DS game come out anymore.

The rumor is the release date fir the 3DS is November 20

Why would you look at it from the side?

I think it's been over a year since I bought my DSi, and the 3DS won't be out until next March or so.

Maybe in Japan. Not in the US.

I'm really excited about the 3ds. We'll just have to hope and really pray that those 3rd party developers make use of this technology to the fullest.