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Nintendo 3DS Early Impressions

Posted by Soulskill on from the new-ways-to-freak-out-your-cat dept.

Now that E3 attendees have had a chance to try out the new revision of Nintendo's portable console, critiques of the 3D effect and updated layout are starting to filter in. Opinion thus far has been mostly positive. Wired writes, "The graphics, which are much more advanced than you’d expect from Nintendo, left me pretty much in disbelief. They're on a level with Sony’s PSP, probably even a little better than that. But the eye-popping 3-D effect makes everything that much richer." According to the Guardian's Games blog, it works "beautifully." They add, "You can perceive 3D only if the console is directly in front of you, but this is fine for handheld gaming. I actually found it pretty adaptable in terms of viewing from different vertical positions. It was much more sensitive if the handheld was turned slightly to the left or right, but really, it coped perfectly with the slight shifts and jerks you'd get on a morning commute." During Shigeru Miyamoto's annual dev roundtable, he explained how Nintendo felt that particular types of games, such as shooters, benefit more from the 3D effect than others, and how Nintendo hopes to update as many older games as they can to incorporate 3D gameplay in addition to 3D graphics.

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  1. Re:Jews for Nerds! by vegiVamp · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your 3D newsletter.

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    What a depressingly stupid machine.
  2. screen viewing angle? by kj_kabaje · · Score: 4, Funny

    "If you tilt the unit away from your face so it's almost at a 180-degree angle, you can still see the 3-D effect."

    How the fsck do you manage to see the screen when you've turned it completely away from your face?

    1. Re:screen viewing angle? by arndawg · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's 3D. It comes out of the screen. Duh.

  3. Re:Nintendo is destroying Sony? by kestasjk · · Score: 1, Funny

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  4. Re:The same Sony that ruthlessly killed Sega? by donkeyb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sony put the focus in on the 3d, and the specs

    Whereas Nintendo are putting the focus on 3D - *without the specs* :-)

  5. Re:The same Sony that ruthlessly killed Sega? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    >(The development name for the original Playstation console, "PSX", has been reused as the name of a product, a PS2 with integrated DVR, and it should no longer
    >be used to describe the PS1 both for this reason and since Sony hasn't called it PSX since release)

    I didn't realize that OS/2 had DVR support

  6. Re:Nintendo is destroying Sony? by feepness · · Score: 3, Funny

    Mainly it's too often used to turn the vocab of logic and proof into an underhanded debating tactic, which seems like the opposite of what it's supposed to be for.

    Ah, you've fallen prey to the fallacy of the unbounded middle.