Topic: Nintendo Announces Nintendo 3DS

[MegaByte]

GC audio and textures tend to be compressed pretty well.  Videos, not so much.

[Stratos]

GC audio and textures tend to be compressed pretty well.  Videos, not so much.

But I thought they fixed the video compression issues when they started using DivX? I know Two Towers had horrible worse-that-youtube video and it was so bad that Return of the King was going to be on two GC discs for the sake of having a viewable video quality for FMV until DivX turned up to save the day.

[MegaByte]

Yeah, that's why I said tended to.  Even half of the Twilight Princess disc is taken up by the intro movie, which uses something akin to MJPEG encoding.

[Ian Sane]

you can cut with chopsticks, Ian fails at chopsticks skills

Of all the things I suck at this is probably the one I am the least concerned with.  Well aside from cheeky double negative stuff like saying you suck at sucking at stuff you're good at.
 
You know we didn't get a lot of N64 ports on the DS and you would think we would since Nintendo's very first DS game was a port.  I think it was because without an analog stick the DS was so inept at N64 ports that no one bothered after Super Mario 64 DS.  The same might happen with this.  Someone (jokingly?) suggested a Luigi's Mansion port.  Luigi's Mansion absolutely requires dual analog sticks or the game would just be unplayable.  If the 3DS doesn't have dual analog sticks then we're not going to get ports of games that use it.  Console controllers have become complicated enough that duplicating the functionality on a portable is pretty hard to do.  This is going to restrict ports of old games.

[Stratos]

Yes, Ian, don't worry. I was joking about the Mansion port. Though a sequel designed for the system would be interesting. If it had one control stick then you could theoretically use the stylus as the second (like IR on Wii is used for) but it would still not be conducive for a port.

[MegaByte]

Well, when the DS Lite came out, they took away one of the better analog control schemes -- the thumb nub.

[ThePerm]

I'm sure that 3DS carts will start at 1GB(8Gb) since the cart sizes usually always double in size from the previously largest amount.

Cart size is 4gb right now though...soooo..ahh crap nevermind, Nintendo needs to stop using Bits and go with bytes, **** is so annoying, confusing, and backwards. Here I was thinking that ds cart size was already 4 times gamecube game size, misleading!

[GearBoxClock]

Well, when the DS Lite came out, they took away one of the better analog control schemes -- the thumb nub.

I didn't like the thumb nub. It was awkward and not very functional.


I'm fine with a d-pad

[Stratos]

The Phat had a thumb nub? I thought the PSP only had that? Or am I thinking of the wrong thing?

[ThePerm]

it was a thumb numb for the touch screen, not like a little joystick, i forgot all about that..i think i lost mine

[MegaByte]

It took a while to get used to, but it was the superior control scheme for some 3D games.

[GearBoxClock]

The thumb stylus was cool

[Stogi]

you can cut with chopsticks, Ian fails at chopsticks skills

Of all the things I suck at this is probably the one I am the least concerned with.

Not a big sushi fan, huh?

[Crimm]

It took a while to get used to, but it was the superior control scheme for some 3D games.

I use mine a lot.  The stylus on DS Phat is so thin that it's kind of hard to hold for a while.

[ShyGuy]

Hey Crimm, will you appreciate your new DS XL less now that something even cooler is coming out soon?

[yoshi1001]

I think it'll have four cameras (two in each direction) so you can take stereoscopic pictures. I don't know how you guys are going to make your E3 coverage do it justice, though.

Metroid Prime 3D would be awesome. Maybe a Sunshine/Pared-down Galaxy port as well.

[GearBoxClock]

I'd love another Sunshine

[Crimm]

Hey Crimm, will you appreciate your new DS XL less now that something even cooler is coming out soon?

I knew it was coming before it was announced, so yes.  But only because I'm a pessimist.

[MegaByte]

I don't know how you guys are going to make your E3 coverage do it justice, though.

Who wants to pitch in on this purchase? http://www.japangadgetshop.com/products/Fujifilm-FinePix-REAL-3D-W1.html

[BlackNMild2k1]

I don't know how you guys are going to make your E3 coverage do it justice, though.

Who wants to pitch in on this purchase? http://www.japangadgetshop.com/products/Fujifilm-FinePix-REAL-3D-W1.html

What if the 3DS atleast had 2 of those(@ 2.1mp) on the outside if not 2 on the inside too.

that would be one of the biggest surprises of the show and I doubt PSP2 or iPhone would be able to copy it.

Imagine 3D video pictochat(roulette*) and the interesting things that would be going on there.

*Nintendo would never allow that, but it would be such a perv bullet point that the 3DS would find instant success in even the darkest circles of society.

[BlackNMild2k1]

I really like this mock-up:

[ThePerm]

as long as it doesn't break easily

[Stogi]

Where's the analog stick?

[ThePerm]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28s6TOMwwP0

another mockup, this time with clearer 3d

[BlackNMild2k1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28s6TOMwwP0

another mockup, this time with clearer 3d

Your screens are still too far apart.