Topic: Nintendo 3DS Discussion

[BlackNMild2k1]

I haven't seen it. But If I find it before you do, it will be posted in here.

[Spinnzilla]

I haven't seen it. But If I find it before you do, it will be posted in here.

Thanks man. 



Nice mock up, I have to say.  But the guy needs to improve his shadowing and lighting skills before it looks like a believable prototype.  Looks like it would be very uncomfortable to hold.
 
Oh and a nipple for sexy time.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Does it transform into a cassette player?

[Spinnzilla]

Yeah, Sony's giving it Walkman support. 
 
Here's my expectations:
-Two Screens lol
-D-pad and Analog stick
-4 face buttons, two shoulder
-Gamecube-like graphics
-3D lolololol
-Miyamoto's carrot and stick system: Mario Stars or Coins (similar to gamerscore and trophies)
-Sensible online conductivity. I don't want the world, just something better.
-3G maybe?
-Open pricing system.  It seems like the only apps not worth the two bucks are the nintendo -made ones. 
-Pressure Screen
-not a slow as balls online store
-TRANSFER OF DSIWARE!
 

[BlackNMild2k1]

Looks like TOSE is hard at work on producing Nintendo 3DS software

http://www.kyoto-np.co.jp/article.php?mid=P20100408000041&genre=B4&area=K00

Shigeru Saito (The President of TOSE) :
Last year the company's got a loss. The profit has been reduced sharply due to the depression of the game market.
The software makers postponed or canceled projects made the volume of the sales been reduced almost by half.

The order of producing softwares for Nintendo's Nintendo 3DS has been increasing.
Thanks to this contribution, the financial situation can be considerably recovered

[BlackNMild2k1]

Also looks like rumble could be in the package.

http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=119881





Link to patent download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?yyzwi4dooot

But I was unable to find the patent online.
Pat. # US 20100085693

[Stratos]

How's this for a mock-up/fake 3DS?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp5YigZEv14&feature=related

[MegaByte]

How's this for a mock-up/fake 3DS?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp5YigZEv14&feature=related

Terrible?  That's just a DSi XL running a DSiWare game... nothing fake there.

[Stratos]

DSiWare can do 3D? That game it's running has depth.

~Ah, I see, it's using that camera head tracking trick, isn't it?

[BlackNMild2k1]

Looks like Hitachi (Another Nintendo LCD supplier) has announced their "No Glasses Necessary 3D LCD" with use in a game machine coming this year.

Now this is most likely a 2nd vendor for the 3DS (I'm sure Nintendo is preparing for a huge launch), but it could be Sony looking for a quick 3D screen supplier for the PSP2(I'm gonna post this in that thead too).

Source article in Japanese

The new LCD panel consists of two LCD panel layers, with the different perspectives of the left and right eye creating a 3d image. SHARP uses the same technique. By changing the form of the liquid crystals which block light, Hitachi Displays creates a feeling of true 3d.
By increasing brightness over previous products, the previous weakness of 3D--screen darkness--has been solved.
It also functions in 2d mode.
It is expected to enter production at their panel plant in Mobara, Chiba in 2010.

[BlackNMild2k1]

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-13/nintendo-says-3ds-to-be-biggest-handheld-product-since-2004.htmlc

Nintendo Co.’s forthcoming 3-D player is the company’s biggest product introduction from the handheld business since it began offering the DS machine in 2004, according to the game maker’s U.S. head.

“We have ideas of what we want to bring to the consumer that we can’t do with the current” DS model, Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime said in an interview yesterday. “The Nintendo 3DS for us is our next handheld platform.”

The Kyoto-based game maker, projecting its first annual drop in DS machine sales, joins Sony Corp. in embracing the 3-D technology that helped “Avatar” break box-office records. The 3DS, going on sale this fiscal year, will compete against Sony’s PlayStation Portable and Apple Inc.’s iPad in the market for portable game players.

Nintendo, maker of the best selling Wii console, last month said the new handheld device will allow users to see 3-D images without the need for special glasses. Fils-Aime declined to give further details about the product, saying the company’s announcements at the E3 show in Los Angeles in June will focus on the player.
[...]
“Fundamentally, this business is about software, not hardware. Software is what drives engagement by the consumer,” Fils-Aime said. “For us technology is not the end, it’s the means to an end, which is around a great consumer experience.”

Nothing exciting or necessarily new (other than iPad sales), but figured I'd post it anyway.

oh, and there is iPad and PS3 talk in the article too.

[NWR_insanolord]

EDIT: After reading this again, I realized that my response was in error, as Nintendo is merely claiming that this is the biggest handheld they themselves have released since 2004, which not one person with any kind of grasp on reality would ever dispute.

[NWR_insanolord]

I just read about this page on Samsung's web site warning about all the potential side effects of their 3D TVs.

Pregnant women, the elderly, sufferers of serious medical conditions, those who are sleep deprived or under the influence of alcohol should avoid utilising the unit’s 3D functionality.

       
If you experience any of the following symptoms, stop viewing 3D pictures immediately and consult a medical specialist:

   1. altered vision;
   2. lightheadedness;
   3. dizziness;
   4. involuntary movements such as eye or muscle twitching;
   5. confusion;
   6. nausea;
   7. convulsions;
   8. cramps; and/ or
   9. disorientation.

I don't know if all of this applies to what Nintendo's doing, but some of the listed things seem pretty similar to some of the things people had trouble with on the Virtual Boy

[BlackNMild2k1]

That could all be symptoms of wearing the glasses on your face for extended periods of time.

3DS shouldn't have that problem.

[Mop it up]

A lot of those apply to playing videogames for an extended period of time anyway.

[NWR_insanolord]

I don't believe I've seen any game console say that pregnant women should avoid playing it.

[Mop it up]

Hence why I didn't say "all" of them.

Random curiosity question: Does Wii Fit say that pregnant women shouldn't play it?

[BlackNMild2k1]

Pregnant women are already horny enough, last thing we need is for her to fall off her balance board and get even hornier.

[SixthAngel]

Pregnant women are already horny enough, last thing we need is for her to fall off her balance board and get even hornier.

Lets just hope they don't see your avatar too or all hell is gonna break loose.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Now we know another chip provider for the 3DS

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-04-19/ipad-nintendo-3ds-sales-may-boost-rohm-earnings-sawamura-says.html

IPad, Nintendo 3DS Sales May Boost Rohm Earnings, Sawamura Says
April 19, 2010, 8:15 PM EDT

April 20 (Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc.’s iPad and Nintendo Co.’s 3DS game player may help boost earnings at Rohm Co., which makes chips for the devices.

The products “will certainly help boost our sales,” Rohm Chief Executive Satoshi Sawamura said yesterday in an interview, declining to specify details. “Apple and Nintendo are among our most important clients.”

Sawamura, who this month became the second president in Rohm’s 56-year history, is counting on Apple’s tablet computer and Nintendo’s 3-D portable game player to help sales rebound from the 12 year low in the year ended March 2009. He’s also seeking acquisitions to help the company sustain earnings growth.

“Our businesses have been stronger than expected this year,” Sawamura, 60, said in Kyoto, where the chipmaker is based. “We’re keen to gain technologies we don’t have through acquisitions.”

Apple postponed iPad’s international debut last week because orders for the device were coming in faster than it could fill them. Nintendo, the world’s biggest maker of game players, said last week its forthcoming 3-D model will be its biggest portable product since 2004.

Ken Toyoda, a Kyoto-based spokesman for Nintendo, declined to comment, citing the company’s policy not to discuss suppliers. Jill Tan, a Hong Kong-based spokeswoman for Apple, wasn’t available for comment.

[BlackNMild2k1]

3DS might get an earlier release than we expected (worse case scenario.... Oct. JPN, Jan. N.A., Mar. EUR)
Nintendo 3DS vs Sony Move vs MS Natal - FIGHT

3DS to launch in October  (WorldWide?)

Nintendo's 3DS will be released a full two months in advance of Christmas this year, CVG can reveal.

UK industry sources have today informed us that the platform holder is readying an October launch for the system - which it will announce at E3.

That means it will go head-to-head with Microsoft's own great hardware hope this winter, Project Natal.

News of an October launch was a surprise for the execs we spoke to - as Nintendo had only previously announced that the handheld would hit shelves before March, 2011.

An October launch pre-dates that expiry date by a full six months - and gives Nintendo a three-month run-up to Christmas.

One very senior publishing source told CVG: "It's a surprise - we were expecting it much closer to Christmas. But I suppose it gives Nintendo the opportunity to get it front and centre in people's minds nice and early.

"In my experience, you don't launch a product that early to Christmas unless you're confident in it - and going to spend a lot of money on it. We're reassured that Nintendo is going to give it some decent backing in Q4."

The 3DS allows gamers to enjoy software with 3D effects without the need for any special glasses - but will also play regular DS titles.

Professor Layton developer Level 5 is reportedly creating a custom 3D game for the system.

Nintendo describes it as 'the new portable game machine to succeed [the] Nintendo DS series'. Take from that what you will.

CVG asked Cambridge University 3D experts how the device might work earlier this year.

We haven't yet got hold of a specific launch date - but Sunday, October 10 (10/10/10) is surely a front runner.

Nintendo told CVG today's story was merely "rumour and speculation". We get that a lot.

I really hope its a massive WorldWide Release with enormous marketing. It's gonna be so fun to see The Big 3 square off at E3 for mindshare and then again in October for marketshare.

With the fact that the sources are from the UK and saying it's an Oct. release, and we know that this will hit Japan first, we can assume that the UK sources are saying that it will also release in the UK in Oct., right? And if it is gonna hit the Japan and the UK (and the rest of Europe) in October, then it should be pretty safe to assume that Nintendo is also aiming to get it out in the US at the same time, so we can conclude that they are implying a WorldWide release.

[Stratos]

...Now I feel ripped buying a DSi...

Should have just bought another Lite for the GBA slot and held on.

[TJ Spyke]

It's nothing but a rumor. The 3DS still just has a TBA release date.

BlackNMild, "we" don't know what region the 3DS will come out first in, especially since the Wii and DS launched in North America first. If anything, that indicates that North America is likely to get the 3DS first. In fact, the most likely scenario (IF this rumor is true) is that North America would get the 3DS in late September, followed by Japan and Europe.

[Spinnzilla]

WHAT ABOUT POKEMANZ?

[Stratos]

Japan got the DSi and the DSi XL first.