Nintendo Announces 3DS

[Roy Karrde]

http://kotaku.com/5499697/nintendo-a...e-nintendo-3ds

At E3, Nintendo will be introducing new hardware, the Nintendo 3DS.

In an official release, Nintendo describes the portable as allowing games to be "enjoyed with 3D effects without the need for any special glasses". It is not yet known how the 3D effects will work, but it is possible that it could work like this Japan-only DSiWare game.

According to Nintendo, the product will go on sale between April 2010 and March 2011.

The Nintendo 3DS will succeeded the Nintendo DS series and will have backward compatibility for Nintendo DS and DSi games. It is important to stress that the Nintendo 3DS is a new hardware series.

In early January, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata gave an interview with Japan's second largest newspaper The Asahi Shimbun in which he apparently said the Nintendo DS successor will have "highly detailed graphics, and it will be necessary to have a sensor with the ability to read the movements of people playing".

With Pokemon Gen 5 coming out, it looks like it could be a launch title for the new 3DS, if this isnt a very early April Fools Joke. Thoughts? Reactions? Angry Rants?

Edit: This video looks like a great example of how the 3D technology will work with out 3D Glasses

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWAg1...layer_embedded