Topic: Sony Wishes to Work with Nintendo to Promote 3D

[KDR_11k]

Let's stop talking about that ooooooold past and instead point and laugh at Sony for having their big expensive 3D initiative undermined by a cheap handheld system.

[GoldenPhoenix]

Wow. This is just sad on Sony's part.

[Peachylala]

I wonder if Kevin Butler has ever played Wii Sports Boxing, at all. Though to be honest he is just an actor and is just doing what he's told to do. He must be secretly dying inside doing that.

[UncleBob]

So, basically, to sum it all up, Nintendo had made a deal with Sony, decided the deal was bad for them (and, from the sounds of it, it was), so they went behind Sony's back and made a deal with Philips.

So yeah, Nintendo screwed Sony. ;)

[ThePerm]

Yeah, while Sega and Nintendo were Rivals, Sony and Nintendo are enemies. Nintendo if possible would use a finishing move.

[Guitar Smasher]

So, basically, to sum it all up, Nintendo had made a deal with Sony, decided the deal was bad for them (and, from the sounds of it, it was), so they went behind Sony's back and made a deal with Philips.

So yeah, Nintendo screwed Sony. ;)

Fair competitive business.  Sony was allegedly trying to secretly gain control of Nintendo's IPs (I'm positive Nintendo wouldn't have signed an agreement, if they were aware of this), so they secretly recruit Phillips to avoid doing business with Sony.  They both screwed each other, and they both have enjoyed great success at various points after.

Oh, and on topic, you just know Sony sees trouble ahead when they're extending an olive branch to their largest competitor.

[Mop it up]

Nintendo should poke fun at the Move, calling it an ice cream wand or something to that effect, and see if Sony thinks they should instead help them promote motion control together.

[BlackNMild2k1]

[Ian Sane]

The ultimate stupidity in all this is that 3D isn't the hook, it's a glasses-free 3D that's the hook.  That's the whole reason Nintendo went this in the first place.  The lack of glasses is the ace in the hole.  It is the licence to print money.

So Sony and Nintendo promoting 3D together is like an automobile company and a horse breeder promoting transportation together.  These aren't co-existing products, this is the new technology kicking the old to the curb.  Making Sony's 3D look ridiculous and out-of-date is Nintendo's whole plan.  It makes the 3DS look all the better.  Sony doesn't just look pathetic by reaching out like this, they look like utter idiots.

And ignoring the cost and ignoring how uncomfortable it is to wear glasses over glasses (which I would have to do) requiring glasses for 3DTV sucks because it's a restriction that current TVs don't have.  I can invite however many people I can fit into my living room to my house to watch TV.  With Sony's 3DTV I need to have a pair of glasses for each person which isn't feasible.  There was never a restriction to TV watching like that before.  It would be like handing out headphones for each person to listen.  Even if the headphones were free no one would want to do that because it's restrictive.  That's why we have speakers.

[GoldenPhoenix]

Nintendo's technology is what I see being the mainstream for 3D TVs in the near future. I foresee another HD-DVD (3D Glasses TV) vs Blu Ray(Ironically Nintendo's 3D display in this case) with the same outcome.

[Peachylala]

Sony: Say Nintendo, wanna forget about is taking your third party support for two years and ripping off your control schemes to help us with 3-D? Water under a bridge, right?

[GoldenPhoenix]

Seriously whoever thought of this PR stint probably should be fed to ravenous goombas. It would be like Nintendo telling Sony back in the N64 days "Carts rock for games too, how about you help us push carts along with CDs together!"

[Peachylala]

Seriously whoever thought of this PR stint probably should be fed to ravenous goombas. It would be like Nintendo telling Sony back in the N64 days "Carts rock for games too, how about you help us push carts along with CDs together!"

Yamauchi wouldn't allow that to happen, and we all know it.

[ThePerm]

well Sony most likely pushed 3d because they knew about 3ds back in march like everyone else, only problem was the shouldn't have because it made them look like dinosaurs. MGM is one of Sony's quasi Subsidiaries(the pay the bills), if they can't afford to make a James Bond movie...there are problems

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni3181017/

[BlackNMild2k1]

Sony started pushing 3D long before 3DS was ever publicly known about. They've been talking about 3D coming to PS3 since sometime last year or the year before that.

Sony feels the pressure now because Nintendo's solution makes theirs seem expensive, complicated and unnecessary.

Why do I want to invest in a $3000 set up + Bluray player and individual glasses to watch 3D movies, when Nintendo makes it perfectly clear that there is a way to do it without the glasses and for a whole lot cheaper? Sony is now stuck fighting an uphill battle pushing 3DHDTV's into as many homes as possible.

I honestly think that PSP2 was gonna get mentioned somewhere at E3 before Sony heard about 3DS, but now it needs to be retrofitted to be 3D and connect to the PS3 as a much cheaper 3D screen(wireless streaming from your PS3 to your PSP2) yet more functional handheld than the 3DS.

[King of Twitch]

Are you saying we could use our PSP2's for 3D glasses on PS3 games? Now that's an add-on

[BlackNMild2k1]

Are you saying we could use our PSP2's for 3D glasses on PS3 games? Now that's an add-on

I'm saying it would be a smart move for Sony to position the PSP2 as a cheaper glasses-less alternative to an expensive 3DHDTV, a more capable and sexier handheld than the 3DS and another do-it-all device to combat the iProduct

[Stogi]

That has the same chance of happening as Perm getting laid. Slim to nill.

[KDR_11k]

Sony has two choices: Make a 3D PSP with focus on cheap 3D movie playback (UMD had a surprising amount of movie support) and kill their own 3D TV initiative or don't make a 3D PSP and have Nintendo kill their 3D TV initiative, leaving Sony with no real way to sell 3D movies (which the movie studio part needs badly).

[ThePerm]

That has the same chance of happening as Perm getting laid. Slim to nill.

PM me about my latest encounter

[TJ Spyke]

UMD had a surprising amount of movie support

Until movie studios realized that UMD movies sold like crap and stopped releasing them, the only studio still releasing them is Sony itself.

[vudu]

To be fair, KDR used the past tense.

[TJ Spyke]

But I think movie studios will keep that in mind if/when Sony releases a new handheld and tries to get them to release movies/TV shows on it.

[BlackNMild2k1]

How do you think they feel now that Nintendo is doing it?

[TJ Spyke]

I think it sounded like Nintendo was considering doing it by digital download (if they do it, they said they are not planning to do it yet), this basically eliminates any expenses for studios.