3DS

March 23, 2010 5:18 AM

With sales of the DS at roughly 100 million, Nintendo have announced its successor.

Or, at least, they've announced one feature of it and not much else. So, are we talking 3D as in Virtual Boy or 3D as in Rittai Kakushi E Attakoreda?

posted by him (8 comments total)

People said two screens would never work. People said an underpowered box with a silly name and motion controls would never work. Still, I say this will never work.
posted by yellowbinder at 5:25 AM on March 23, 2010 [1 favorite]

Flagged as one feature and not much else.
posted by DU at 5:26 AM on March 23, 2010

I genuinely don't think it'll be a successor to the DS; it's another redesign. Like the DS Lite. And the DSi. And the DSXL.

It's such a winning formula that to deviate from it heavily would be risky. Not that they can't afford the risk, but considering the underwhelmingly conservative redesigns post-Lite I'll be surprised if it's anything more than a hardware accelerated version of the demo in the last link.
posted by slimepuppy at 5:27 AM on March 23, 2010

You'll take my GBA limited edition classic NES style from my cold. dead.hands.
posted by The Whelk at 5:28 AM on March 23, 2010

How will 3D work without glasses?

In other news, I'm incredibly tired of the whole 3D fad already.
posted by shakespeherian at 5:28 AM on March 23, 2010 [1 favorite]

What the hell is with the recent obsession with 3D gaming? Did Lawnmower Man finally come up in everybody's Netflix queues?
posted by robocop is bleeding at 5:28 AM on March 23, 2010 [1 favorite]

I'm glad they are making it compatible with DS games. Backwards compatibility is really a selling point to me - it means my half-trashed DS doesn't need to be repeatedly resuscitated.
posted by LSK at 5:30 AM on March 23, 2010

So, a one-feature Nintendo blue post.

Great.
posted by oddman at 5:32 AM on March 23, 2010