3D Unlikely for New Nintendo Home Console

By Jorge Ba-oh 30.03.2011 12

3D Unlikely for New Nintendo Home Console on Nintendo gaming news, videos and discussion

Speaking to CNN about Nintendo's future, Reggie Fils-Aime commented on whether the next home console would support 3D.

Nintendo had previously revealed that pre-3DS, the company had toyed with the idea of having a specialist 3D projector, even making a mock-up as an attachment for the GameCube. 3D content for the home still requires the use for specialist glasses, often expensive and still limited in the marketplace driven by HD and traditional SD television sets.

The 3DS's core philosophy is "3D gaming and media without glasses", and with that in mind, it's unlikely that the next console would do 3D, according to Reggie.

We've not said publicly what the next thing for us will be in the home console space, but based on what we've learned on 3-D, likely, that won't be it.

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that makes since, because they are focused on glasses less 3D.

When all is bad don't look for a easy way out. Because you wont know what to do once your out

Headtracking would be nice, however.

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If it's not 3D, then it makes me wonder what they have up their sleeves. They surely won't just 1-up the Wii. Smilie

( Edited 30.03.2011 05:57 by SirLink )

it needs to be able to run cryengine3, unreal engine3 or their equivalents AT LEAST. Then they can add on whatever genius u.s.p ( unique selling point) they want and i and millions will be extremely happy.

we need to go back to the days when nintendo consoles were up there in terms of graphical power AND gaming content. no doubt what ever u.s.p nintendo come up with, the others will not be as quick to dismiss this time and more than likely will copy. Their just gonna throw a shit load of power behind it and nintendo needs to be prepared.

This is Reggie talking, if we have learned anything about Nintendo over the past few years it's that Nintendo Japan rarely lets their American counterpart in on what exactly is going on behind the scenes. If you ask me Reggie is as clueless as the rest of us.

SirLink said:
If it's not 3D, then it makes me wonder what they have up their sleeves. They surely won't just 1-up the Wii. Smilie

I wouldn't be surprised if it was just Wii 2.0, they think there are onto a winner (Like the DS) so they will likely not stray too far from the original Wii. Wii 2 will have to have some sort of IR pointing device if it wants to play nice with original Wii games, something which I think Nintendo knows that they need to do to keep us happy.

MiiWiiKing said:

we need to go back to the days when nintendo consoles were up there in terms of graphical power AND gaming content.

Ya because that worked out great with both the N64 and GameCube...
Nintendo needs to keep it's advertising fresh, cool and interesting. Brand name alone doesn't sell consoles anymore. People are a lot more informed than they we're 5 or 10 years ago.

( Edited 30.03.2011 15:42 by Birdo Is A Tranny )

Birdo Is A Tranny said:
SirLink said:
If it's not 3D, then it makes me wonder what they have up their sleeves. They surely won't just 1-up the Wii. Smilie

I wouldn't be surprised if it was just Wii 2.0, they think there are onto a winner (Like the DS) so they will likely not stray too far from the original Wii.

Also, based on past history it won't be too much of a departure as the consoles tend to alternate between evolution (refinements) and revolutions (major changes).


NES --> SNES : evolution (better graphics, control refinement)
SNES --> N64 : revolution (change to 3D)
N64 --> GCN : evolution (better graphics, control refinement)
GCN --> Wii : revolution (motion / pointing controls)
Wii --> ??? : evolution (better [HD] graphics, control refinement)

Birdo Is A Tranny said:

I wouldn't be surprised if it was just Wii 2.0, they think there are onto a winner (Like the DS) so they will likely not stray too far from the original Wii. Wii 2 will have to have some sort of IR pointing device if it wants to play nice with original Wii games, something which I think Nintendo knows that they need to do to keep us happy.

Yeah, they are likely going to build on what they have with the Wii but will that be enough? They need that extra thing to convince people that it's more than just a Wii 2.0 just like 3D is for the 3DS.

Holograms! Too expensive? Mmm, Motion ++ tech on all Wiimote 2 and smell packets?

Birdo Is A Tranny said:

Ya because that worked out great with both the N64 and GameCube...


may not have worked out great in terms of market share, but both produced some of the best games of all time. cant say the same for the wii

Mario Galaxy ? Metroid Corruption ? (and ,yes, possibly WSR too).
TP I think is also one of my all time favorates, but I dont want to get into a "its a gc game style" semantics.


( Edited 31.03.2011 00:11 by Darkflame )

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both great games. galaxy ill give you but corruption contender for best game of all time?

my point was that nintendo need to beef up its nxt console. as they will most likely come to market first, nintendo need to be in a position where their consoles output doesn't look dated compared to the competitions come 2015/2016 (if not earlier)

wii2,HD whatever u wanna call it aint good enough. plus it sort of already exists in the forms of move and kinect. i personally think they should go for a more traditional control scheme but make the new system backwards compatible with wmp and wii games

MiiWiiKing said:
both great games. galaxy ill give you but corruption contender for best game of all time?

Relatively...
Depends what GC ones are you considering? For me it was better then TWW, and SMS by far.
Not as good as OoT, MM or M64, however.

Might be more level with Pikmin1/2 on the GC I guess.

". i personally think they should go for a more traditional control scheme but make the new system backwards compatible with wmp and wii games"

Just keep that same wiimote/nunchuck controller "form" and add a second analogue, then I dont see any reason why traditional games would need a different controller.
I dont think theres a clear cut line anyway, sometimes mid-game different controll styles become usefull.

( Edited 31.03.2011 15:11 by Darkflame )

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