YES!

Tucked away on the official page for the Nintendo 3DS ( and yes, in the press release) is confirmation that Nintendo has finally come to their senses in regards to digital purchases.

"System Transfer is a feature that enables you to transfer downloadable software already purchased on a Nintendo 3DS system to another Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo DSiWare games & applications purchased on a Nintendo DSi or a Nintendo DSi XL system also can be transferred to your Nintendo 3DS.* This function will be available after hardware launch. "

The site goes on to say that there will be a limit to how many times transfers can be made and that some software may not be transferred.

More information is promised soon. I sure hope they'll let owners of the DSi who aren't upgrading to do this as well. I'd also love to know if this is being done with hardware of if they're moving to the ability to redownload purchases tied to a single account.

Stay tuned to Kotaku's 3DS page for a day full of updates, interviews and videos.

Pilotwings Resort will have at least three modes of flight when it hits for the 3DS soon after the portable's launch in March.

Totilo walks us through some of the gameplay and controls of upcoming Pilotwings Resort. Totilo says that he's not entirely happy with the game's 3D effect, a first so far for a 3DS game.

Stay tuned to Kotaku's 3DS page for a day full of updates, interviews and videos.

(Additional video production work for this post by Bryan Ridgell.)

THQ isn't ready for a new generation of consoles. Are gamers? That's the question commenter Jamaicanmecrazy ponders in today's installment of Speak-Up on Kotaku.

The THQ article got me really thinking. Are we ready for next gen consoles? Is that something we would really want in the next year?

I love my consoles this generation. I don't really want to send them to the shelving unit in my apartment where gaming consoles go to die. It's too full and I'm not done with them yet. Sure my PS3 80gb sounds like a rocket trying to complete a lift off sequence. It turns out that HDTV did catch on, and maybe the Wii doesn't look so great at 55". Yes it's the 3rd Xbox I've bought, but it was worth it every damn time. I'm OK with what I have now.

I just spent my video game hardware money for this year in the form of a gaming PC. Give me an extra year or two of the current consoles. Then I'll be asking you to take my money for your new shiny toy.

I'm sure it's a tough call though right now. For both us and the big 3. On the one hand, you have a console that's just starting to turn a profit (or had CRAZY sales figures) and now has a large user base to sell loads of software to.

On the other hand however, you have rampant piracy. All 3 consoles and both handhelds have been hacked to their core with no going back. PS3 just had a CFW with backup support released a day or two ago, Nintendo has been busted open for a while now, and MS even longer. The 360 is not nearly as easy or accessible as the other two, but the damage has been done nonetheless. The difference between this gen and last gen is the fact you can load up a USB stick or SD card with software, and the rest is pretty much done for you (again, the 360 being the exception).

I wouldn't be surprised If the rumor mill starting cranking on the next gen. Sad, but not surprised. If Sony starts seeing PSP level piracy on the PS3, they might not have any choice but to introduce a new platform. The other two, not to be outdone, might follow suit. Bad for us. At least Apple isn't in the console business, could you imagine buying a console yearly?

Good for us though is that fact that we all love shiny new toys. Let's face it, we all don't think we want something until specs and pictures are released. Then it's a sea of "Do want!" memes and outbreaks of nerdgasm comments. I've been 'round these internet parts for a while now and it happens every time. I'm sure the next consoles will be awesome. Probably won't be that big of a jump hardware wise (except Nintendo), but there's always a hook. Everyone will still have their distinguishing features, and there's sure to be a surprise or two.

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[Image: PlayStation 4 concept by Tai Chiem]

Totilo dives in to Nintendo's submariner Steel Diver on the 3DS today in New York. This new hands-on with the game also includes a look at the game's periscope mode.

In the video above you can see the basic mechanics of gameplay, mostly the side-scrolling gameplay you'll find in Steel Diver.

But in the video below, Totilo gets a look at the game's gyroscope-based periscope mode. Finally, a game that asks you to sit and spin.

Stay tuned to Kotaku's 3DS page for a day full of updates, interviews and videos.

(Additional video production work for this post by Bryan Ridgell.)

The Friend Code, the bane of every modern Nintendo gamer's existence, is getting a major overhaul with the release of the 3DS, allowing friends to find friends with little to none of the hair-pulling frustration that is currently involved.

Gamers who try to play online with others using the DS or the Nintendo Wii currently have to exchange a set of 16-digit numbers to connect. Sometimes they have to do so twice, depending on the game they play. And often the game doesn't remember those codes, turning an online session of gaming into something more akin to math than fun.

But the 3DS fixes some of that when it hits Japan in February and the U.S and Europe in March. The new Friend Code system will now be tied directly to the 3DS you own and there will only be one for each system, so no more secondary Friend Codes for games.

The system, Nintendo tells us, will also be able to remember the codes you put in for your Friends and track whether they are currently online or not. If they're online, one of the lights in the top right corner of the portable will glow orange to alert you.

The 3DS will have an app that tracks and can give you the current status of your friends at any given time.

And finding and becoming friends sounds like it will sometimes be easier as well. While we don't yet know if they Friend Code will be a 16-digit number, or even a number at all, we do know that you will have to exchange them just once with your friend to offer and accept a friendship on the 3DS.

But if you're connected with another friend via local wireless, you won't even have to do that. Instead you can push a button to accept or send friend requests and the 3DS will take down the number automatically and remember it.

While this new system still isn't as effortless as being able to create easy-to-remember user names and connect them with a message from anywhere, a system that both the PS3 and Xbox 360 use, it's much better than the intricacies and extra numbers of the current Wii and DS Friend Code system.

What we don't yet know, what no one at the event could yet answer for us: What format will the Friend Codes be in? Numbers or names and how long are they. And is there a cap for your friends list.

Stay tuned to Kotaku's 3DS page for a day full of updates, interviews and videos.

Syfy and THQ have begun production on the two-hour Red Factions; Origins television movie, with stars from Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who spinoff Torchwood, Stargate Universe, and everyone's favorite liquid metal Terminator joining the cast.

Syfy loves recycling stars, and Red Faction: Origins is continuing that tradition in fine form. The movie, a two-hour movie that could lead to an ongoing series, stars Terminator's Robert Patrick as Alex Mason, some 25 years after leading the Martian colonies to freedom in Red Faction: Guerrilla. Twelve years ago vengeful enemies killed his wife and kidnapped his daughter (Tamzin Merchant from The Tudors), leaving him a broken man.

His son Jake's (Stargate Universe's Brian J. Smith) world is turned upside-down when he discovers his sister is still alive.

A star-studded cast fills out the remaining roles, including Torchwood's Gareth David-Lloyd, Battlestar Galactica's Kate Vernon, The Starter Wife's Danielle Nicolet, and Devon Graye of Dexter fame.

Production of the film begins in Bulgaria this week, with its Syfy debut scheduled for May of 2011.

I'll do my best to remember to watch it, but I can't make any promises. The thought of Gareth David-Lloyd appearing in a role where he's not kissing Captain Jack Harkness full on the mouth leaves me slightly empty inside.

Take a look at how Nintendo classic The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D will look on Nintendo's upcoming 3DS.

This top, first video, has Stephen Totilo walking us through some of the neat new features coming to the game when it hits the 3DS. That includes things like a gyroscope-enabled first-person mode and a map that floats in 3D above the game.

The second video, below, has Totilo walking you through a boss battle. Those graphics look amazing, even as shot by an iPhone and uploaded to YouTube.

Stay tuned to Kotaku's 3DS page for a day full of updates, interviews and videos.

(Additional video production work for this post by Bryan Ridgell.)

Amazon is now taking pre-orders for Nintendo's 3DS due out March 27 in the U.S. for $249.99. Get to it. Stay tuned to Kotaku's 3DS page for a day full of updates, interviews and videos.

The Internet is awash in a sea of new screenshots and videos for new, third-party 3DS games. So we've dropped as many of the new ones we could find right here for your easy perusal.

Currently the list includes games like Pro Evo 2011, Resident Evil, Super Monkey Ball 3D, Super Street Fighter IV 3D, Ridge Racer 3D and a ton more. A ton!

Check it out:

Stay tuned to Kotaku's 3DS page for a day full of updates, interviews and videos.

For some people the inclusion of female combatants in fighting games is an indicator that women can be just as strong and skilled physically as any man. Not this guy. NSFW sound effects ahead.