New 3DS from Nintendo

Talking about 3DS Nintendo, maybe you will have a 3D effect on your mind, yes Nintendo DSi XL landing in the offices of the gaming press this week, its saw fit to announce its newest product in its portable line: the Nintendo 3DS. The Nintendo’s company gave limited details via a press release in Japan; we know the system will use two screens, won’t require any sort of special glasses, and will be backwards compatible with current DS and DSi games. The 3DS system will be released before the end of the fiscal year, which means the latest we’ll see it in Japan is this March. The system is expected to make an appearance at this year’s E3, and we’ll surely be given more information before then. For now, Nintendo has yet to release any images of the system, or how games will look, or be played. So how will the 3D effect be displayed? We posted a video of a downloadable game that’s out now in Japan that uses head tracking to simulate a 3D image, and since then we’ve had time to try the game on a friend’s Japanese DSi during GDC. By tracking the motion of the system in relation to your eyes, you seem to be able to peer “into” the picture by turning the system this way and that. It’s a surprisingly effective effect, and some iteration of this system may be used in the 3DS.

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