Nintendo 3DS Announced

[Ares]

Nintendo 3DS Announced
New hand-held to use 3D technology without the need for glasses.
by Jim Reilly

March 23, 2010 - Nintendo Japan has announced the 3DS, a new hand-held system to be released before March 2011. This new system will be fully unveiled at this year's E3 show in June.
While details are a bit slim as of now, the announcement stated the console would incorporate 3D technology without the need for players to where special glasses. The 3DS will also be backwards compatible with all DS and DSi software.

Nintendo says this new portable machine will "succeed" the DS series. As of December 2009, the DS console has sold 125 million units worldwide.

Rumors of a new DS console have been buzzing for a while now. The latest instance came from President and CEO Satoru Iwata, when he reportedly told Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun the company was working on a DS successor that would have "highly detailed graphics" and use a sensor with the ability to "read the movements of people playing." Another rumor suggested NVIDIA's Tegra processor would power a new DS hand-held. Both of these reports remain unconfirmed as of now, however.

As reported by IGN.

 

[GlocksRock]

Enough with the 3D stuff already.

 

[j_garcia]

Enough with the 3D stuff already.

Like all fads, t-shirts and marketing buzzwords, it will pass.

 

[Ares]

Like all fads, t-shirts and marketing buzzwords, it will pass.

It will take awhile for this fad to go away, they still need to put 3D on refrigerators that have screens on them, cell phones, Ipods, and pretty much anything that has a screen on it.

 

[Ares]

Here are some rumors on what features the 3DS might have, as reported by 1up.com:

Japanese business publications Nikkei and Asahi have reported that the Nintendo 3DS will achieve its 3D effect using the "parallax barrier" technique developed by Sharp. In brief, this technique involves a secondary, overlapping screen with a series of precise slits that show a different set of pixels to both the right and left eyes, creating the illusion of depth.

Nikkei is also reporting that the Nintendo 3DS will be controlled with a tilt sensor, have a "three-dimensional" "stick" (we're assuming a traditional analog stick) and a built-in rumble feature.

While we consider both Nikkei and Asahi to be reputable publications, we're considering these features to be rumors until official word comes from Nintendo.

 

[j_garcia]

It will take awhile for this fad to go away, they still need to put 3D on refrigerators that have screens on them, cell phones, Ipods, and pretty much anything that has a screen on it.

It is just getting started. By X-mas this year though, I think the public will already be saturated by it and it will be done.