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- - Nintendo 3DS (http://www.nuklearforums.com/showthread.php?t=37526)

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Taken from Nintendo's PR site (Japanese) http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2010/100323.pdf

- New portable hardware
- To be announced at E3
- Uses 3D
- No glasses
- Release (in Japan?) ~~after~~ before March 2011
- Prints money

Will it need glasses?

Google translate:

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No glasses then.

EDIT: Kotaku is already reporting (because I know you fuckers don't trust me):

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Originally Posted by Kotaku

At E3, Nintendo will be announcing new hardware, the Nintendo 3DS.

The portable allows gamers to experience 3D gaming without 3D glasses. Nintendo describes the portable as allowing games to be "enjoyed with 3D effects without the need for any special glasses". According to Nintendo, the product will go on sale between April 2010 and March 2011.

In early January, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata gave an interview with Japan's second largest newspaper The Asahi Shimbun in which he apparently said the Nintendo DS successor will have "highly detailed graphics, and it will be necessary to have a sensor with the ability to read the movements of people playing".

Nintendo of America later told Kotaku that the Asahi Shimbun had "misinterpreted" Iwata's remarks. "Mr. Iwata did not make any comments regarding the functions of Nintendo's future hardware systems," Charlie Scibetta, Nintendo of America's senior director of corporate communications told Kotaku. "The answer to the reporter's question was misinterpreted."

The Asahi Shimbun stands by its reporting and issued a statement to Kotaku Japan that read: "The article quoted Nintendo President Satoru Iwata's comment accurately." The actual quote in the article is a fragment of a longer sentence.

At a Nintendo quarterly Q&A, the exec addressed the issue with the Asahi Shimbun, asserting that the reporter stated, "The graphics for the next DS will be highly detailed and it will contain a motion sensor, right?" Iwata claims he then replied, "Those things are naturally being required. But do you think it would sell with just that?" Iwata emphasized that this last part was left completely out.

It appears that the extra element Nintendo believed was necessary to really sell the DS successor is 3D.

Regarding 3D, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has previously stated that Nintendo would need to look into the "possible health effects" of playing video games in 3D for prolonged periods of time.

EDIT2: They are not even bothering to hide it. Here's the PR in English.

3D without glasses? Seamless screens? Holy shit. Nice to see Nintendo bust out a real upgrade this time. edit: Anyone else think that Gen V Pokemon will debut on this thing?

I heard about them designing 3d then having it project in 3d, but I had figured it would have been done with consoles first.

Live and learn.

Curious what this is going to be like. I'm not sold on 3d but gimmickness is Nintendo's trusty revolver when it comes to new consoles. I'm not, however, too cynical to dismiss this entirely since hell I love my DS.

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Originally Posted by Mirai Gen (Post 1026834)

Lifted from GAF:

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Originally Posted by Ravidrath

Updating this a little...

This was floating around GDC as being confirmed by people working on the hardware.

What I've heard is...

1) Two screens, with virtually no seam between them when open
2) Screens are larger and higher resolution, but exact resolution is unknown
3) Powered by nVidia Tegra
4) Roughly as powerful as a Gamecube, and apparently similar to program for
5) Uses carts - believed to be same physical size as DS/DSi carts, only with different guts
6) Due out in 2010 in at least one territory
7) Accelerometer for motion control

Looking forward to seeing it.

I'm guessing that means backwards compatibility!

Also, Coro Coro is revealing more Pok�mon 5 features next week. I'm guessing that's why this was revealed so soon.

The motion control has me a little worried, because I don't want to have to waggle my DS, but I'm thinking it's more for telling how you're holding it to help with the whole 3D thing.

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Originally Posted by NonCon (Post 1026903)

The motion control has me a little worried, because I don't want to have to waggle my DS, but I'm thinking it's more for telling how you're holding it to help with the whole 3D thing.

Example of how such a thing (fake 3D via motion sensing) would work.

I like my DS Lite so much I actually will find it hard to care about this one.

Which is in itself a complement to Nintendo I guess.

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Originally Posted by Azisien (Post 1026926)

I like my DS Lite so much I actually will find it hard to care about this one.

Which is in itself a complement to Nintendo I guess.

Nintendo is so gonna kill original DS support like they did with the GBA.

It's made out of cardboard! And... Legos? Tiny legos? Papercraft?

But for serious, that's actually pretty neat. Sci-fi shit, right there. Regular back to the future kind of thing.

I look forward to when they make phones that project 3D images of who you're talking to.

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Originally Posted by Regulus Tera (Post 1026936)

Nintendo is so gonna kill original DS support like they did with the GBA.

Oh without a doubt, but that's probably a year or three out. And the library is already so huge I can probably subsist on the system for years.

Of course I have bouts of consumerist whoring and will probably get 3DS anyway if it turns out to be fascinating.

...well fuck.

I'm not sure how to feel about this.

At first I thought it was a joke.

People won't be satisfied until someone finally pumps out the holographics, it seems?

To be honest I was never that excited about 3D graphics. I have a personal preference for simpler styles--old-school graphics and gameplay, the stuff I grew up on.

But I'm a mite curious to see how this new system will work out once they release it. Will it revolutionize gaming-on-the-go? Will it outsell the DS on its first week? Will it have games that I would like to play?

Hey, you guys who proudly bought all those DSi's and DSiXL's ?

FUCK You!

This message was brought to you by Nintendo. Nintendo, "we do what we do".

No, but really... i trully hate when Nintendo does this sort of thing. The DS and DS Lite were doing fine. Couldn't you just wait a little longer and release a DSiXL3D ?

It's like a Hyperactive kid designing a toy for god's sake!

"Hey hey! Put a camera in it... yeah, NO! NO! uuuhhh Make it BIGGER!! NONONO Make it 3D! ALRIGHT!!!"

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Originally Posted by mudah.swf (Post 1026829)

Anyone else think that Gen V Pokemon will debut on this thing?

Last I heard, Gen V was due out third quarter 2010 in Japan (i.e. September-ish).

So no, probably not. Also, that means Spring 2011 is when WE get Gen V...

but... but I'm not even CLOSE to done with HG yet!

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Originally Posted by Bells (Post 1026993)

Nintendo: ~~Don't blame me. Blame yourself or God.~~ 'Tis your birth and faith that wrong you, not I.

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Originally Posted by Bells (Post 1026993)

3DS is the DS2 we've been waiting for (not a Updated DS). Being that it's a gamecube on the go as oppose to a N64 on the go.

The motion control allows the system to detect the stylists movement, not the player. That's not possible yet and won't be for another 10 years or so.
The 3D effects are the same as what you see in imax theaters and on select TVs. So your eyes WILL bleed from playing it after a while.

On top of that it's not even called DS anymore. It seems to be an entirely new handheld console.

I'm going to go with the assumption that the 3D is some underwhelming thing like the Wii motion controls until otherwise disproved. The distance between the promised product and the actual product was so immense I still haven't quite gotten over it, and I haven't played Soul Calibur Legends in over a year!

I'm still not sure how to feel about this. :/

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Originally Posted by Viridis (Post 1026908)

Example of how such a thing (fake 3D via motion sensing) would work.

That's not actually motion-sensing. It uses head-tracking software through the camera in order to find orientation. The video makes it look more 3D that it actually is.

Hilarious how that video went from 475 views to 815,312 views in one day.

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Originally Posted by Regulus Tera (Post 1027309)

I see potential issues with this setup.

You probably need enough light.

awesome idea from somewhere else: A viewtiful joe parodying the most prominent 3D movies of the past and present. they could even call it VIEWTIFUL JOE... 3-D and have giant cheesy block letters floating out

"OH NO GRATUITOUS AND GIMMICKY BODY PARTS AND MONSTER ATTACKS ARE FLYING INTO THE AUDIENCE, STOP THEM JOE" as you suddenly have to run towards the screen to stop them and ordinarily with a 2D screen that would be hard to judge the distance from that angle

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Originally Posted by Regulus Tera (Post 1027695)

FUND IT!

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Originally Posted by Regulus Tera (Post 1027695)

QUICK! E-MAIL THIS TO CAPCOM NOW!