Nintendo 3DS

[JKTrix]

Hey, sorry I didn't reply to the direct responses. I haven't had a lot of time (and still don't), but maybe one day I'll make a nice thread with all my personal DS recommendations so I can just link to that whenever I get asked again :P

In the meantime though. NeoGAF has a pretty great thread that stretches even broader than my own recommendations. They liked some stuff I didn't like, but practically everything I did like is in there.

I cut my prior post short because of time, but what I had in there before didn't include recommendations anyway, and it was already off-topic enough.

As far as 3DS stuff goes again, I'm still on the side of 'it's a rumour until Nintendo says something'. However, Nintendo has a very close relationship with Sharp--they've been making DS screens since the beginning. They also have a similarly long relationship with Hitachi, who also revealed 3D screen technology.

[Hythloday]

The Nintendo 3DS is an upcoming portable game console by Nintendo, which can produce "3D effects without the need for any special glasses.

If screens could produce 3D effects without glasses, why have I been wearing stupid glasses my entire life? Thanks for letting the cat out the bag, Nintendo, I'm done with that smurf.


I've considered myself a very anti-Nintendo guy for a fairly long time (around the time I realized how much more fun competitively wrecking real people online was), but wow, I have to admit you have my interest with this one Nintendo.

Here's hoping it's not the like the last adventure into "3D effects without the need for special glasses" (SPOILER).

[Madame Adequate]

Apparently it genuinely does not need glasses or anything else of the like. So I'm impressed by the technology, I admit.

[Rantz]

Merged the two threads about the 3DS. Hope you don't mind!

[Skyblade]

The Nintendo 3DS is an upcoming portable game console by Nintendo, which can produce "3D effects without the need for any special glasses.

If screens could produce 3D effects without glasses, why have I been wearing stupid glasses my entire life? Thanks for letting the cat out the bag, Nintendo, I'm done with that smurf.


I've considered myself a very anti-Nintendo guy for a fairly long time (around the time I realized how much more fun competitively wrecking real people online was), but wow, I have to admit you have my interest with this one Nintendo.

Here's hoping it's not the like the last adventure into "3D effects without the need for special glasses" (SPOILER).

No, it's a large scale introduction of parallax barrier 3D effects. Basically, the two different images needed for 3D effects are split so that one goes one way, and one goes the other. Each image is thus caught by a different eye. Thus there is a range in which the 3D effects work. Too far to the side, and you won't get the 3D effects.

The problem with parallax barriers were initially the cost, and then the introduction. 3D still isn't huge, and a parallax barrier is an entire new TV, and more costly than one without the 3D system, so introduction has been problematic. Including it into a handheld system was a brilliant idea, and should help people to realize the potential of the system and introduce it as a mainstream viewing system.

[Hythloday]

The Nintendo 3DS is an upcoming portable game console by Nintendo, which can produce "3D effects without the need for any special glasses.

If screens could produce 3D effects without glasses, why have I been wearing stupid glasses my entire life? Thanks for letting the cat out the bag, Nintendo, I'm done with that smurf.


I've considered myself a very anti-Nintendo guy for a fairly long time (around the time I realized how much more fun competitively wrecking real people online was), but wow, I have to admit you have my interest with this one Nintendo.

Here's hoping it's not the like the last adventure into "3D effects without the need for special glasses" (SPOILER).

No, it's a large scale introduction of parallax barrier 3D effects. Basically, the two different images needed for 3D effects are split so that one goes one way, and one goes the other. Each image is thus caught by a different eye. Thus there is a range in which the 3D effects work. Too far to the side, and you won't get the 3D effects.

The problem with parallax barriers were initially the cost, and then the introduction. 3D still isn't huge, and a parallax barrier is an entire new TV, and more costly than one without the 3D system, so introduction has been problematic. Including it into a handheld system was a brilliant idea, and should help people to realize the potential of the system and introduce it as a mainstream viewing system.

Yeah, Nintendo is really opening themselves up some doors. Imagine all the movies going to be ported to it?