Last night at their conference in Chiba, Japan. Nintendo dropped the final details on their newest handheld the 3DS. As seen on Kotaku the 3DS will hit Japan on February 26, 2011 at the price of 25,000 yen ($300 U.S.). It will then release to the west right around March 2011 (kinda feels like Nintendo digs Spring handheld launches.) The kit will come bundled with: a 2GB SD card, 6 augmented reality cartridges, the 3DS touch pen, and a charger stand(shown below).

The 3DS will support streaming TV, have a slew of software available at launch, and much to the relief of gamers consistently burned through Nintendo upgrades, unlike the DSI and DSI XL It will allow you to import your digital game library. For those new to the DS world, this means that DLC purchases will be able to transfer when you buy a new system for whatever reason. Aaaaaand….wait for it…… The Virtual Console for 3DS will have Gameboy Advance support! Apparently it only took 2-3 years of us bitching to get that, this announcement has me giddy as a school-girl. Hopefully the titles for the 3DS will be as strong as its looking so far.

Here are the technical specs:

According to Nintendo, the new functions include a slide pad, a motion sensor and a gyro-sensor.

The portable will have parental controls like the Nintendo DSi and the DSi XL portables before it.

It is possible to play games downloaded off the 3DS’s Virtual Console as well as games downloaded onto a Nintendo DSi and DSi XL. The Nintendo 3DS works with game cartridges in the Nintendo DS series.

The Nintendo 3DS is 134mm by 74mm. It is 21mm thick and weighs 230 grams.

The top screen is 3.53 inches and with an liquid crystal display of 800 x 240 pixels. The button screen is 3.02 inches with a liquid crystal display of 320 x 240 pixels.

It has two outer 0.3 megapixel cameras and one inside the portable’s clamshell.

The Nintendo 3DS has WiFi functionality.

There is a game cartridge slot, an SD card slot, an slot for the AC adaptor and headphones jack. Stereo speakers are on the right and left of the portable’s upper shell. It has a mic, too.

Cartridges for the Nintendo 3DS are the same size as cartridges in the Nintendo DS line.

As with the DS line, the Nintendo 3DS is powered by a lithium ion battery.