Nintendo 3DS

[Jeff]

So, after playing with it for a week I've noticed a few things.

The camera app is buggy. It's crashed three times on me already and at one point it suddenly stopped reading the SD card, and I had to restart to get it to read it again (not sure if resetting the 3DS did it or if I only needed to restart the camera app though). Of course that's nothing that can't be fixed with a system update later on.

The battery seems to hold out really well in sleep mode, but yesterday I noticed it went from four bars to two pretty quickly and today I think I found out why. I've been setting it on my DSi when I'm at my desk, and when I did that today, I heard sounds coming from the 3DS. I'm guessing the magnet that activates the DSi's sleep mode is counteracting the magnet that activates the 3DS's sleep mode, causing it to come out of sleep mode even though it's closed. Considering I like to turn the volume all the way down when I'm just playing around on the menu, that would explain why I didn't hear any sound yesterday to clue me in that my 3DS was out of sleep mode.

The 3D effect is cool and the inclusion of the slider was a great idea. I've come to the conclusion that people who have claimed to get headaches were playing with the 3D turned all the way up. I keep it at about halfway, which is enough to see the effect, and I haven't noticed any side-effects. When I first got it though, I did notice that when I look at my computer screen after playing the 3DS the text on my monitor seemed to pop off as if it were 3D, but I haven't noticed that happening lately.