I played the 3DS today

Nintendo has this event going on where they set up "pods" in major cities (Chicago, New York, San Fran, LA) and you can play games. It was really fun. I played Pilotwings, SteelDiver, Street Fighter, Madden, and the AR game where you shoot faces. (Top scores on all of them, just sayin'). It took a little bit of time to find the right length at which to hold the 3DS, but once I did, it was easy to keep it in that frame. Steel Diver had me spinning like a top but the stylus use would probably cramp my hands after a little bit of time, Pilot wings was really friggen cool, so Star Fox has to be amazing, by default, Madden was a lot more fun than expected, Street Fighter was hard, and the Mii head shooting game was enjoyable, and also had me spinning like top. But, the AR was really well done.

I can easily see why the battery would run out so quick. The 3D was generally really well done.

The only thing, I'm still not sure if I want to get this one. It's definitely a "not immediate" buy, since there aren't that many good games for it, but most of those will come after E3. I want to know if there'll be a Lite version, since that took the original DS, and made it a bazillion times better.

All in all, it was fun, but the bad battery life is something to greatly worry about.