Nintendo has confirmed its launch day line-up of Nintendo 3DS games, an 18-strong list including Nintendogs + Cats, Steel Diver and Pilotwings Resort. Each will be priced at $39.99 – the 3DS itself will be $249.99 when it hits the US on March 27 – and Nintendo confirms that more than 30 new titles will follow in-between then and E3 2011 in June.
Nintendo’s offerings will include The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Star Fox 64 3D, Kid Icarus: Uprising and new installments in the Mario Kart series. The bundled AR cards – six playing-cards with augmented reality glyphs – will work in different ways with the new 3DS games. For instance, Nintendogs + Cats will be able to spot the AR cards and map puppies onto your desktop.
Of course, there’s also backward compatibility with Nintendo’s DS library of titles, barring those that demand a secondary Game Boy Advance slot.
Third-party 3DS games:
- Super Street Fighter® IV 3D Edition from CAPCOM
- The Sims™ 3 from EA
- Madden NFL Football from EA SPORTS
- Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D from Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.
- LEGO® Star Wars® III: The Clone Wars™ from LucasArts™
- RIDGE RACER® 3D from NAMCO BANDAI Games America Inc.
- Super Monkey Ball™ 3D from SEGA
- BUST-A-MOVE UNIVERSE™ from Square-Enix, Inc.
- SAMURAI WARRIORS®: Chronicles from TECMO KOEI AMERICA Corp.
- Asphalt™ 3D from UBISOFT
- Combat of Giants™: Dinosaurs 3D from UBISOFT
- Rayman® 3D from UBISOFT
- Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon® Shadow Wars from UBISOFT