The Shrine

They're going off of developers who have SDKs for the next DS, and have bigger mouths than their NDAs should allow. Judging by the state of the current DS, being the top selling system and all, I doubt Nintendo will launch the next DS until some other company makes a move, or DS sales begin to dry. In theory, they could launch it by this Christmas; realistically, it'll probably be mid-late 2011.

I wouldn't take this article as absolute truth.

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In their investors news letter:

Nintendo wrote:To Whom It May Concern:


Re: Launch of New Portable Game Machine

Nintendo Co., Ltd.(Minami-ward of Kyoto-city, President Satoru Iwata) will launch “N intendo 3D S”(temp) during the fiscal year ending March 2011, on which games can be enjoyed with 3D effects without the need for any special glasses.

“Nintendo 3DS”(temp) is going to be the new portable game machine to succeed “Nintendo DS series”, whose cumulative consolidated sales from Nintendo amounted to 125million units as of the end of December 2009, and will include backward compatibility so that the software for Nintendo DS series, including the ones for Nintendo DSi, can also be enjoyed.

We are planning to announce additional details at E3 show, which is scheduled to be held from June 15, 2010 at Los Angeles in the U.S.

I predict this will be the next Virtual Boy.

Julius Seeker wrote:Well fuck me.....
He cleared it!

Julius Seeker wrote:Well fuck me.....
He cleared it!

*sigh*

I hate you.

*Puts on Robin Hood*

Why a spoon, cousin? Why not an axe or a sword?

Because it's dull, you twit! It'll hurt mooore!

In retrospect, Alan Rickman is easily the best part of that movie.

Back to the main topic, I'm surprised. They used the word "succeed," so I wonder if they'll continue to make DSis and XLs once they release the 3D.

I think this is a smart move, because it finally gives DS lite owners a reason to upgrade. I want access to the awful games being released on the DS's store, but the small enhancements found in the DSi and DSi XL are not enough to justify the purchase.

SineSwiper wrote:I predict this will be the next Virtual Boy.

Sine raggin' on a Nintendo system? Would never have seen that comin' ;-)

I would like to see FF6, 7, and 8, along with Ocarina of Time, and Terranigma remade for this one =)

I wonder how the 3D tech works? I know rumour has been around about it since before the DS release. I suppose 3D is going to be a major part of the next generation of consoles, beginning with the 3DS.

Zeus wrote:

SineSwiper wrote:I predict this will be the next Virtual Boy.

Sine raggin' on a Nintendo system? Would never have seen that comin' ;-)

Don't get me wrong. I think Nintendo is doing great with the DS. I'm more like ragging on the 3D technology. It will be cool for the next year or so, and then people will get bored with it. This is the 1950's all over again. It's not like you have holograms yet, so eventually nobody will care.

It will probably sell very well given Nintendo's track record with handheld systems. The current DS has sold 130 million units to date.

3D without glasses? That basically is a hologram.

Im sure it will sell like crazy. I thought poking at a screen and blowing in a microphone would be a fad, too, but the DS keeps on keeping on. Nintendo has somehow found a way to turn the gimmicks into staying power gold.

SineSwiper wrote:

Zeus wrote:

SineSwiper wrote:I predict this will be the next Virtual Boy.

Sine raggin' on a Nintendo system? Would never have seen that comin' ;-)

Don't get me wrong. I think Nintendo is doing great with the DS. I'm more like ragging on the 3D technology. It will be cool for the next year or so, and then people will get bored with it. This is the 1950's all over again. It's not like you have holograms yet, so eventually nobody will care.

The DS is great 'cause of the way in which it's used. I honestly thought it would be a fad when I played it at E3 (2004) but they've done such a good job in a lot (not all) of case in ensuring the touch-screen is done well and make sense. And I'm not talking about just Nintendo here. If anything, it's been the third parties who have done the best jobs with games like Pac Pix and Drawn to Life. On top of that it's cheap to develop for so we're getting a shitton of stuff that would never see the light of day on the consoles (well, maybe Wii, it follows a similar business model) and it's basically become a portable SNES 2 with all the remakes and similar titles. It truly is the system that absolutely anyone can play.

That being said, I'm not sure how 3D/hologram graphics on its own will be any sort of innovation that'll be exploited. But other than the Virtual Boy, Nintendo's proven everyone wrong for 20 years in the handheld market (the original GB was a calculator, the other iterations were far less powerful than the competition or didn't do anythign new, the DS was a fad, etc.), we really should just have faith in them when it comes to handhelds unless we're finally proven otherwise.

I am fairly sure it will be a combination of the screen, motion sensors, and perhaps cameras. Holographic projectors are a little out of the price range of a handheld system =P

Huh, this is with a DSi, using the camera to track motion. If it's similar to this, it might allow for cool things: http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/28532