Nintendo announced Tuesday that it’s working on a new handheld system with 3-D capabilities that’s tentatively called the Nintendo 3DS. The system, which will launch in Japan by March 2011, will allow gamers to view 3-D images without the need for special glasses. Although Nintendo hasn’t released details regarding how it’ll achieve this 3-D effect, one possible solution would require placing a film-like screen (called a “parallax barrier”) on top of the actual LCD screen. The parallax barrier would split the LCD’s light so that different patterns are directed to the gamer’s left and right eye, thereby simulating a 3-D image.
Nintendo hasn’t announced when the 3DS will be released in North America, although it’ll presumably be after the initial Japan release. The system is intended to succeed the immensely popular Nintendo DS series, which has sold more than 125 million units worldwide. The 3DS will also be backward compatible with software designed for both the Nintendo DS and DSi. Nintendo plans to fully unveil the 3DS at this year’s E3 gaming convention on June 15.
This is how they’ll do 3D without glasses:
Hmmmmmmm….. It’s like a plague!
Hmmmmm…. It’s like a plague!
If it can play N64 quality games (preferably ones that are available for VC) then I am all over it.
Considering the regular DS already can run N64 quality games such as Super Mario 64 DS, and the 3DS is suppose to be more powerful than the DS, that shouldn’t be a problem.
Well, here’s hoping for acess to all Virtual Console titles, then. I would love being able to play Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask on handheld. I would love for a handheld version of this with classic Gameboy, GBC, and GBA games as well.
This is just awesome, Nintendo is killin tha game, $orry $ony
The built in camera will have head tracking like here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw
I heard it will be Game Cube quality games.
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