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Nintendo 3DS Might Be Used For Newspapers, Magazines Too
In an interview with Japanese business paper Nikkei, Nintendo boss Satoru Iwata has said his company is looking at ways to automatically beam newspaper and magazine articles to a 3DS handheld. The 3DS can receive data while in sleep mode (powered on but the “clamshell” lid closed), and Iwata hopes that when a handheld comes…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 22, 2010 -
Nintendo Undoes Four Years Of Alienation In A Single Hour
Nintendo’s E3 was very strange. Watching the parade of titles on show for both new and existing hardware, you’d never have guessed this was the same company that for four years had almost undone twenty years of good work. I mean that in a very selfish way, of course. With unprecedented sales of both the…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 22, 2010 -
Why Is Nintendo Doing 3D Now?
In 1995, Nintendo released the Virtual Boy, a 3D gaming peripheral that made people vomit. It was yanked from the market, and Time called it one of the worst inventions ever. Yet, Nintendo has returned again with 3D. Why? And why now? The Nintendo 3DS, however, isn’t the first time Nintendo has thought about giving…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 22, 2010 -
See Resident Evil 3DS In Action
Watch the debut trailer for Resident Evil: Revelations for the Nintendo 3DS, and in doing so you’ll see the same footage the press were treated to during the new handheld’s unveiling last week. There’s not much to go on, sadly, as a cinematic trailer with bad lighting is as poor a guide as to how…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 22, 2010 -
The Nintendo Download: Invasion Of The Square Bears
This week’s Nintendo Download features a pair of Square Enix WiiWare games originally released in Japan as Kumanage, which sounds a lot cooler than The Tales of Bearsworth Manor. North America cannot handle Kumanage, so we get The Tales of Bearsworth Manor, two 1,000 Wii point games featuring a similar pop-up storybook look and feel…
By Mike Fahey Published June 21, 2010 -
No Controller? No Glasses? No Problem
The big news popping out of this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo was more about what was missing than what was there. Microsoft’s motion-controlling Kinect add-on for the Xbox 360 turns your body into the controller for video games, making you the puppet master of your own virtual avatar in a slew of video game experiences.…
By Brian Crecente Published June 21, 2010 -
Nintendo 3DS vs. PSP vs. iPhone
How does the upcoming Nintendo 3DS compare to the its current competitors, the Sony PSP, the iPhone 3GS? Let’s find out! The original Nintendo DS is thrown in for good measure. Via website HardCoreWare comes these assumptions on how the Nintendo 3DS stacks up: Graphics Processing Unit • Nintendo 3DS: DMP Pica 200 • Nintendo…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 21, 2010 -
Sony Boss Responds To Nintendo 3DS
Nintendo caused quite a stir at the E3 gaming expo with its glasses-free Nintendo 3DS. In an interview with Japan’s Sankei, Sony Computer Entertainment honcho Kaz Hirai had this to say about the glasses-free 3D tech: “In in-house research, naked eye 3D for portable machines is not high and there are presently limits for it.”…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 21, 2010 -
Meet The Graphics Chip Powering The Nintendo 3DS
Earlier today, Japanese technology firm Digital Media Professionals sent out a press release confirming that they are the providers of the graphics chip for the new Nintendo 3DS. This chip is called the PICA200, an older GPU (it’s from 2006!) that DMP says provides “high quality graphics” with “low power consumption”. Handy for a handheld,…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 21, 2010 -
Would You Like To See The Nintendo 3DS’s Cartridge?
Nintendo isn’t only rolling out a new successor to the Nintendo DS platform, it is also rolling out something else: A successor to the Nintendo DS’s cartridge. The Nintendo 3DS cartridge sports a 2GB capacity. While piracy is a problem for the Nintendo DS, there has been speculation than the new 3DS carts will help…
By Brian Ashcraft Published June 21, 2010 -
Mario Sports Mix Puts The Bob-omb in Volleyball
With all of the buzz surrounding the Xbox 360’s controller-free motion gaming of Kinect and the Playstation 3’s motion-sensing Move, it might be easy to forget that Nintendo has been doing motion gaming for quite some time. They’re still doing it, of course, and quite well. There were at E3 a whole new crop of…
By Brian Crecente Published June 18, 2010 -
Nintendo Testing Healthiness Of 3DS, Advising Young Children To Avoid 3D
Some people got “Nintendo thumb.” Others complained of “Wii elbow.” Should we next worry about “3DS Headache”? The novel glasses-free 3D display of the Nintendo 3DS has “no health issues,” Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime told Kotaku this week, though he added a caveat regarding the youngest of Nintendo consumers. “We are working with…
By Stephen Totilo Published June 18, 2010 -
Want To See What 3DS Games Look Like In 3D?
Sadly, there are no official videos of the Nintendo 3DS in its full three-dimensional glory. Instead, we’ll have to watch fake ones! The game may be fake, but the 3D effect is real, so grab a pair of glasses and pretend it’s actually Mario Kart. Actually, don’t. Freddie Kart Super Circuit looks way better. Thank…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 18, 2010 -
The 3DS Also Has A Pimp Range
While we’ve seen pictures of the Nintendo 3DS in black, red and blue, there are two other colours on display on E3’s showroom floor: a garish shade of orange, and a garish shade of purple. They look more like the kind of colours Sony would use on a Japan-exclusive PSP, but then seeing as these…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 17, 2010 -
This is Why You Didn’t Get to Play with the 3DS at E3
Remember that video of the huge stampede of people we posted earlier today? The one showing all of those folks running to get to Nintendo’s booth to check out Nintendo’s 3D portable? They never stood a chance! Why? Because the line already wrapped entirely around Nintendo’s booth before the floor was open. And it was…
By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2010 -
Nintendo 3DS Sparks Gamer Stampede
As the E3 of four years ago wrapped up there was a famously large stampede. The last day of that show, the show when Nintendo gave attendees a chance to get their hands on the Wii and its motion gaming, the second the doors opened people ran through the halls, past competitors, past other games…
By Brian Crecente Published June 17, 2010
