Nintendo 3DS

[SILENT MOUNTAIN]

anyone got a spare email invite link code i could have please?

[Family Fry]

I PM'd yesteryeargames and gave him my code, for you....
Was just saying, not that it matters as I wasn't attending.

[yesteryeargames]

yes thank you Family Fry
sorry ive only just told my brother the good news fingers crossed

[Family Fry]

Tis alright, I got another one too so if anyone would like it drop me a PM and I will pass it on.
Got one from HMV and one from Nintendo.

[Mr M0by]

Mercenaries apparently had your man in the foreground and everything else was on a seperate level

My 1 year old has something similar! It's a toy steering wheel with a little car sat in front of the road backdrop. He can steer left & right and everything! Does the 3DS come with an ignition key? If so. Sold!

[dataDave]

I took 3D to mean actual 3D, not just two (or even 4-5) planes. I am understanding it correctly? Like, on the character in Mercenaries, the guy himself is flat and just standing out from a flat background?

If this is the case it's going straight in the ****ing bin and I'm jumping on the PSP2 bandwagon with every other ****er.

I want true James Cameron 3D, not the other tacked-on bull****.

[Dogg Thang]

I honestly can't help thinking I can't have it right though. I mean, the 3D is its big selling point. If it's not even as 3D as an old Sun football card, that's fairly mind-blowing. The idea that it can't actually render the footage we've seen in 3D has to wrong.

[abigsmurf]

Multiple plane 3d... I....It...What?

That's appalling if it's true. If every object is only rendered from a single angle it'll look shocking. Everything will look like cardboard cutouts.

Ignoring that, I'm considering cancelling my pre-order. New and Shiny is good but there are simply no games I'm even marginally interested in for the launch and I'm too much in debt to justify frittering money away. The final straw could be the fact that the eShop isn't actually day 1, it's not coming until May.

This console is not ready to launch. If the software situation is this bad, who's to say there aren't going to be major issues with the hardware.

[Kongster]

Wait until the mighty Nintendo release a revised 3DS with improved battery life, and when the software library will be a lot better lol.

[randombs]

My 1 year old has something similar! It's a toy steering wheel with a little car sat in front of the road backdrop. He can steer left & right and everything! Does the 3DS come with an ignition key? If so. Sold!

Had one like that! It was a red Porsche

[Strider]

Don't forget I'm not relaying this from personal experience, just what I've been told. Nothing looked cut out in the game I was playing. There was a pleasing layer of depth that really helped to immerse you in the onscreen action. In fact, the effect was so good that I'm now dead set on getting the game in questions, despite not having any interest in it before. I guess I used the terms layers to try and get across the depth in layer. It certainly doesn't look like cut outs.

I know this sounds like I'm backpeddling, but it's really hard to explain the effect until you've actually seen it in action. Obviously some will no doubt look better than others due to the techniques used, but I'm, still massively excited about the 3DS.

[randombs]

Hang on a sec. Is this diagram valid?



If that's the case and it all boils down to fooling your brain into joining the red and blue images together, then I can't see it being Paper Mario flat plane 3D for everything, more likely it's the case that some devs are doing it properly and others aren't, which is what I interpreted from Strider's talk of Zelda vs other games.

Based on the diagram, I'd expect you could do anything you could on a larger telly+glasses. All you need to do is send two separate images to each eye - which, I believe, is how it works on said tellies - and Bob's your 3D uncle.

[Dogg Thang]

Hang on a sec. Is this diagram valid?

No. Your right eye does not sit vertically above the left eye like that unless you've had a serious car crash or some nasty birth defect and these days they can do a lot with surgery.

But the diagram doesn't actually affect what we're talking about with the planes. It's not about how the screens work, but how the games are actually being rendered (so, yes, about some devs doing it properly and some not - but that could well be an indicator of serious hardware limitations). And, from what Strider is saying about what he saw, I suspect it can't be the case (except maybe in some weird example) - it would be all over the gaming websites.

[randombs]

Has anyone tried this plane business on the PS3?

[Silvergun X]

This is *exactly* the same as when the PSP and DS first came out, as someone else has rightly said.

In a year or so's time we'll all be eating our words.

Personally, I'm still looking forward to the 3DS more than i'm looking forward to the NGP. As it stands, i'm more of a PC gamer than a console gamer and I really don't spend a lot of time on my consoles, so the idea of a portable PS3 doesn't really appeal to me very much.

Wearing glasses, I tried playing GT5 on a 3DTV and I either couldn't see crap due to my short sightedness, or had to put 3d glasses over my normal glasses and look like a fool. I'm interested in actually being able to see 3D properly without this little hurdle and it's for that reason i'm more interested in the 3DS.

NGP seems like a portable PS3, which is brilliant n'all that, but ultimately it's just another twin stick controller / console that doesn't do much different if you ask me.

I'll probably get both, honestly. But I don't understand why the 3DS is all of a sudden getting such negative banter now the NGP's been announced.