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[markot]

Sounds like a good way to curb piracy & emus, as you surely won't be able to play the games in 3D on a PC monitor.

I think most DS piracy is on DS hardware with the carts.

 

[sevenchaos]

Maybe this E3 will be like Spaceworld and the real surprise will be the next home system. People are like, "OMG NEW HANDHELD!" Powering 5 trillion hype trains to E3 and BAM! Nintendo pulls some Apple shit and straight up kills everyone in the room with WiiHD.

 

[ChuBoi]

Did anyone else have to do a double take at the thread title? I thought it was an old thread about Iwata saying the DS2 would be hi-res :lol

 

[VegaShinra]

E3 sounds like it'll be a good one this yr.

 

[Chris R]

Sounds like a good way to curb piracy & emus, as you surely won't be able to play the games in 3D on a PC monitor.

Don't think the pirates are playing their Nintendo DS games on a PC... More likely they are playing said games on a Nintendo DS.

 

[George Claw M.D.]

This is the fastest I've seen a thread move at this time of night. Off to bed, now, and I'll see what this thread looks like, tomorrow.

 

[ConradCervantes]

Wind Waker 3D is going to be sick!

*raises roof*

Wow, awesome news. But really, way to kill the DSi line dead in the water, Nintendo.

 

[manzo]

I would love to see a few 2D sidescrollers with the true 3D effect. Can you imagine how godly parallax scrolling would look on this machine? :lol

:O

:O :O
:O :O :O

Holy fucking shit

 

[ThatObviousUser]

then I guess it won’t happen.

After this announcement you're doubting the batshit insane places Nintendo will go?

Not saying it'll happen but discounting it right off seems shortsighted.

 

[KTallguy]

Lol I'm sure if Sony comes out with a PSP3D at E3 it'll have been developed in the two months before E3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oqJqZzk2Sc

They already started :lol

 

[TheFLYINGManga_Ka]

Import if necessary.

What if it isn't region-free?

 

[gofreak]

Lol I'm sure if Sony comes out with a PSP3D at E3 it'll have been developed in the two months before E3

Yeah, cos Sony has clearly expressed no interest in 3D...

I honestly would hope they don't though. Or at least not make it the only new thing. Then it would just be PSP all over again - 'home games' on a portable system.

Indeed, on the same note I'd be very shocked if Nintendo of all people saw a new visual system as the justification for a new system. I'm guessing there'll be at least some new kind of interaction system also, perhaps 'air touch' with sensors and stuff.

 

[PantherLotus]

10 bucks says it's like:

(view magic-eye style, in case you didn't know)

I wouldn't be tossing around bets like that. Nintendo isn't going to make a system like the magic eye.

 

[FSLink]

holy shit, can't wait for E3D and Metroid 3Dread now. lol

And Pokemon DS 3D
Haha, they have a winner for a new naming mechanic for their games now.

 

[Gamer @ Heart]

Of course they are going to throw an accelerometer in there. It would be silly if they didnt at this point. Now the iphone doesnt have much to stand out at that point.

 

[Captain N]

I cannot wait for Nintendo's naming conventions to start up.

Mario 3D
Waverace 3D
Harvest Moon 3D

Pokemon 3D
Pikmin 3D

 

[speedpop]

Sounds like a good way to curb piracy & emus, as you surely won't be able to play the games in 3D on a PC monitor.

If the system is popular enough, it will be broken. Nothing has ever stopped pirates, and whilst the PS3 is doing a mighty job at it I imagine it will fall eventually.

 

[SlipperySlope]

It'd be funny if this 3D without the glasses thing puts the smack down on all of the new 3D TV's coming out. If there's one thing I hate wearing, it's 3D glasses.

 

[Screenboy]

WTF @ announcement. Can't wait to see some games

 

[vagabondarts]

*looks at calendar*

*eyes narrow*

this better not be an elaborate April Fool's joke.



on another note, why would anyone buy the DSi XL now?

 

[jump_button]

what if you dont want 3D can i turn it off? :lol

 

[Instro]

Man wow I did not see the 3D thing coming at all, way to go Nintendo. So holiday release with new Pokemon? My money is ready.

 

[TheFLYINGManga_Ka]

Just imagine the next Pokemon game! During battles!

Holy crap!

 

[Gamer @ Heart]

WTF @ announcement. Can't wait to see some games

ENHANCDED GAMECUBE PORTS!!!

SUPER SMASH BROS MELEE R3DUX

 

[Aokage]

2ch points out this Hitachi cellphone commercialized last year in Japan with glasses-free 3D. They call the technique the "parallax barrier method".

http://k-tai.hitachi.jp/h001/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax_barrier

Sounds cheap to manufacture, and can be implemented to work when held horizontally or vertically. I'd bet a few yen this type of tech is what Nintendo is using.

 

[Nessus]

Indeed, it better have a "Virtual Handheld" service at launch.

They could call it Virtual Boy! ..wait..

 

[Metroid Killer]

This is gonna put a stop on the DS(lite, i, xl) sales once released, no?

 

[bistromathics]

I wouldn't be tossing around bets like that. Nintendo isn't going to make a system like the magic eye.

how else you get 3d w/ no glasses unless you use optical tricks?

2 screens w/ no margins sounds ripe for stereoscopic display

 

[king zell]

- Prints money

http://stocks.finance.yahoo.co.jp/stocks/chart/?code=7974.O&ct=b

 

[BorkBork]

I bought a DS at launch so I'm ready I suppose.

DS at launch was 150 bucks.

 

[MrBeggar]

Not quick enough. I knew they'd pull some bullshit like that.

Now your failure is immortalized!

immortalized on ytmd already too:lol
http://lazytaku.ytmnd.com/

 

[ConradCervantes]

Next Mario and Pokemon games in 3D...*drools*

E3, you're so far away. America probably won't see the 3DS till next March/April.

 

[Spotless Mind]

What the hell?! :lol

 

[cann3dheat]

I thought this was a joke when I read it on giantbomb :lol

Oh lord.

 

[Dexa]

sounds good

 

[hipgnosis]

I cannot wait for Nintendo's naming conventions to start up.

Mario 3D
Waverace 3D
Harvest Moon 3D

It's like 1996 again when all games had 3D in their names!

 

[Monty Mole]

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.​

That sounds pretty fucking awesome. Can't wait to see what games Nintendo cooks for the thing too.

 

[Benson]

3D gaming on a hand-held? I just get images of nauseousness and headaches. I think 3d is best suited to an environment where you aren't moving around, imagine staring into a 3d screen on a bumpy car ride, eughhh.

 

[Majine]

Let's get this out about 3D: If Ninty is doing it, it's no longer a fad. It's here to stay. Quote me on that. :lol

 

[Cep]

Joke post?

No, he is simply cementing this moment as an epic gaf moment by being one of the crazy naysayers.

He is doing us a great service. He deserves your respect!

 

[ChuBoi]

Wow, I'm actually really happy that I'm going to E3 this year. I wont mind the sore feet if I get my hands on this bad boy. Time to hunt down a ticket to the Nintendo presser.

 

[GDGF]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzRq7GhBLRQ

Could this be the technology?

I would not doubt it in the least if the tech Nintendo is using is a variant of this (the camera tracking one)

 

[jump_button]

:lol Oh so Big N dont care about WiiHD but Maybe Wii3D?

 

[rpmurphy]

2ch has already done an impressive mockup.

Mock if old.

Ironically enough, this is pretty much what I'm imagining it to be like. If there is basically no gap between the two screens, then it makes sense -- it uses the two screens for a perspective thing. And with the use of an internal accelerometer, tilting the system would not be an issue.

 

[MisterHero]

http://stocks.finance.yahoo.co.jp/stocks/chart/?code=7974.O&ct=b

That's because the Yen is too badass for our US Dollar

 

[Grampasso]

Disappointed at the lack of hype train gif
We need moar gifs!!!

Spoiler

I'm not able to make them myself

 

[ThatObviousUser]

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time R3D

 

[LCfiner]

After this announcement you're doubting the batshit insane places Nintendo will go?

Not saying it'll happen but discounting it right off seems shortsighted.

it’s not Nintendo that I doubt. It’s the cell companies that Nintendo would need to work with.

There is no way, NO WAY, they are gonna allow a device to download hundreds of megabytes of data each month and not force a monthly fee.

seriously, the new Amazon Kindle SDK limits app downloads to something in the kilobytes range because of restrictions in the contract that they have with their 3G providers.

Nintendo would be cockblocked by the guys who control the pipes. And if there’s no monthly fee then that means that either the device would cost a fortune (not happening) or the 3G data is removed or limited to extremely tiny usage.

 

[Medalion]

It's like 1996 again when all games had 3D in their names!

In 1996 that was the year of the N64, and the naming convention was to make games end in 64, not 3D.

 

[GCX]

I want to visit Nintendo R&D. That has to be some kind of magical rainbow kingdom.