While the Nintendo 3Ds is due to launch on March 27 in North America for $249.99, several of the handheld's useful features won't be available until "late May," company president Satoru Iwata revealed in a financial results briefing last week.

The 3DS' digital store the 'eShop' will all arrive in the first system update, currently slated to launch "at almost the same time around the world" in "late May," as will the option to transfer DSiWare games from a Nintendo DSi to a 3DS, and the Internet browser. Read more »

Among today's myriad of 3DS announcements, Nintendo sent confirmation that the new hand-held will let you keep your purchases from the DSiWare Shop. The press release mentions that users will be able to transfer downloadable software from one 3DS to another, or content purchased using a DSi system.

It's unclear right now if this would mean re-downloading your purchased content from the newly branded "Nintendo eShop" or if users could simply connect the two systems to each other locally. Read more »