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Nintendo has revealed some of the specifications of its latest release in the world of portable gaming. The Nintendo 3DS is the first portable games platform that renders and displays 3D images without customised glasses. The top screen of the device is roughly nine centimetres diagonally, with an 800x240 resolution (400 pixels are needed per eye). The 3D effect can be controlled using the analogue slider, and completely turned off if so desired.
A report in the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper (from Japan, obviously) has today suggested that software can be installed into internal memory off of the game cartridge, eliminating the need to carry the carts around with you. When Shigeru Miyamoto was asked about the feature, he was unaware of it - though he is not in charge of hardware development. This is supposedly separate to the DSiWare feature.
With the two external cameras, 3D photographs can be taken and viewed in the hardware. The 7.5cm bottom touchscreen does not show 3D images, though it is slightly larger than the DS and DS Lite. New this time around are a motion sensor, a gyroscope and 'slide pad' for analogue control. Nintendo also revealed that they were in talks with Hollywood Studios to deliver 3D films to the device - perhaps offering the cheapest way to relive the 3D cinema experience at home.
The company says it was far easier to get developers on board than it was when pitching the original Nintendo DS, with which the 3DS is backwards compatible. On the way to the system are Kid Icarus: Uprising, Mario Kart, Paper Mario, and 3D updates to StarFox 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (with new gameplay). Third parties have announced new instalments in the Resident Evil, Metal Gear Solid, Professor Layton, Street Fighter, Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell, Ridge Racer, Kingdom Hearts, and Dead or Alive franchises.
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Apparently the 3DS will come with an internal hard drive so you can install your games on it.
I might have sub-consciously picked up that line as I scrolled through and it reminded of what I had read earlier. All I know is I skimmed through and thought YOU CAN INSTALL GAMES.
It's not like that's anything new. The PSP can do game installs. I guess it's new for Nintendo though.
Onto a memory card, sure, but this is suggesting it comes off the DS card and into internal memory, which I don't believe any of the PSPs do?
Not unless you count the PSP Go I guess.
But Go doesn't have UMD. It has downloadable games, which even the DS has now.
Yeah, everything I've read suggests the 3DS is going to have storage built into it, which is definitely a new thing for handhelds. I wonder how much storage there'll be though, since the 3DS carts will have a max size of 2GB (which will probably go up later in its life).
Well, not entirely new (PSP Go has 16GB), but I'd be expecting about that amount - 16GB or so. I think it will be about $299.95 here.
Yeah I'd guess at that price too.
I guess it is a stab at slowing down R4 sort of sales, butttt I wonder how long it takes pirates to crack it.
About three months, I expect. I doubt the 3DS will be using any kind of amazing technology for its game carts, probably just larger versions of the DS ones.
2gb sd cards are real cheap right now - probably chosen to keep the price down. what would be awesome is if you could run your console-tied encrypted version of the game from whatever sd/hc card you wanted to. sdhc comes in 32gb now.
What would stop you then giving/sharing your game with somebody else? They would have to encrypt each version and lock it to a unique key of the 3DS or something.
They maybe should have looked at the design a bit more, I think it looks too similar to the old system externally.
Watching movies on it sounds like a painful experience, unless you were really desperate.
They would have to encrypt each version and lock it to a unique key of the 3DS or something.
if they want truly downloadable games (ie cut out the bricks and mortar store) this is exactly what they will need to do.
AFAIK you can't copy a Wii downloadable game onto an SD card and use it in another system because it's tied to the serial number of the Wii. It'd be the same on DSiWare I bet, and with the 3DS too.
Also, they've said the design isn't final. Remember the first premiere of the nintendo DS?
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Dude at GAME today told a customer and sounded pretty sure it was out here in March. I mean, his guess is probably as good as mine, but maybe the Game marketing dudes would have heard.
I would still expect pre-Christmas, at least in the US.
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