Nintendo Announces New Hardware, The Nintendo 3DS

[Minos]

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

In an official release, 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.

The Nintendo 3DS will succeeded the Nintendo DS series and will have backward compatibility for Nintendo DS and DSi games.

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.

Sauce: http://kotaku.com/5499697/nintendo-anno ... e=true&s=i

Still skeptical as to how they are going to pull that one

[PhilipK]

Could be cool

[Warby]

i bet its gonna be something similiar to this:

[Mazy]

Yeah, we definitely need more DS SKUs :roll:

Oh well, it'll sell like crazy so who can blame them

[⌐■_■]

interesting, but marketingwise an extremely poor decision to name it after the DS imho... I mean, it might be backwards compitable but it's still a whole other device, it seems..

[Steppenwolf]

I hope thgat 3D thing it's not just a gimmick. Higher resolution and better 3d gfx would be nice.

[Minos]

i bet its gonna be something similiar to this:

Already been done on DSi and looks amazine

[Sentura]

console of the year for sure

[Thrik]

Well it's about time a proper successor to the DS was announced, but I agree using the DS branding is a pretty stupid idea now that they've basically raped the brand with what, four revisions? People (especially parents) are obviously going to assume this is just another iteration of the original DS.

[Serenius]

Virtual Boy 2.0?

[Psy]

So it's not a DS but it's called a DS. What.

[Evert]

dual screens

3d-screen

I guess

[Thrik]

So it's not a DS but it's called a DS. What.

They did the same thing with the GameBoy and that was equally confusing. I think there were literally about 10 GameBoy models, but only two honest-to-god actual versions (the GameBoy and the GameBoy Advance).

[Mazy]

So it's not a DS but it's called a DS. What.

They did the same thing with the GameBoy and that was equally confusing. I think there were literally about 10 GameBoy models, but only two honest-to-god actual versions (the GameBoy and the GameBoy Advance).

Heh yeah, the Advance generation alone had Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Advance SP and Gameboy Micro, all the same in different sizes. They sure like rebranding the same device, but again it sells so who can blame them for doing it

Anyway, I initially didn't read this as being a new DS but rather be a completely standard DS that just have the ability to do games in 3D on it (Kinda like you can make games that utilize the camera on the DSi), but it does kinda read as them going for a new generation.

[Minos]

So it's not a DS but it's called a DS. What.

They did the same thing with the GameBoy and that was equally confusing. I think there were literally about 10 GameBoy models, but only two honest-to-god actual versions (the GameBoy and the GameBoy Advance).

Heh yeah, the Advance generation alone had Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Advance SP and Gameboy Micro, all the same in different sizes. They sure like rebranding the same device, but again it sells so who can blame them for doing it

Anyway, I initially didn't read this as being a new DS but rather be a completely standard DS that just have the ability to do games in 3D on it (Kinda like you can make games that utilize the camera on the DSi), but it does kinda read as them going for a new generation.

Yes, they are talking new generation. It will be backwards compatible with DS games though.

I'll probably wait for the "lite" version before I get this. I mean, look at first generation Game Boy, GBA and NDS. They sucked hard compared to the "improved" versions released later on.