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[Pietepiet]

Cool. Looking forward to see what exactly this is. DS is pretty old by now anyway, this is its 6th year.

[Renton]

Dammit.

I BOUGHT A DS A MONTH AGO!

[Cocytus79]

Dammit.

I BOUGHT A DS A MONTH AGO!

Still a wise investment, don't feel bad. At the very least you will be getting 13 months of use out of it before the 3DS comes out, and they you can just play all your games on that.


And besides, if you DO decide to get a 3DS on launch day I'm sure you'll get quite a nice trade-in bonus on the DS 

[Tuba]

Interesting, I certainly wasn't expecting 3D to be the main selling point of a handheld. I wonder how it works without glasses.

[DarkSoul520]

This looks cool and everything, but I'm going to try and hold my excitement till I see in action.

Then again, I thought the Wii was the coolest thing ever when it was released.  I bought one and I never play it.

[sugarbeard]

Nintendo may have dropped the ball on their consoles but there handhelds are always top notch. Looking forward to seeing more about this.

[Hangedman]

I have a DS Lite (because my DS broke, but that's my fault), and skipped the DSi because I predicted the coming of the DSi XL pretty accurately... and now this.

FFFF

I'm looking to upgrade eventually, but should I wait another year?

Probably.

[Brother Android]

I'm thinking this is probably not a DS redesign, as it claims backwards compatibility with DS games but not with GBA games.

[Eric McQuiggan]

I don't understand why people rag on the Wii so much, It gets more use around my place then the other 2 consoles.

[Hangedman]

Yup. I annoy my fiancee all the time because I go to visit her and then play too much No More Heroes. So then she beats me at Mario Party.

Anyway, I have lots of old Nintendo systems kicking around if I feel the need to play GBA/GB, and I don't expect my DSL to break. Although the L button sticks sometimes. I just want to get in on the 'actual easy internet connectivity' and some of the DSiWare that is sadly underappreciated.

[William Laub]

Interesting, I certainly wasn't expecting 3D to be the main selling point of a handheld. I wonder how it works without glasses.

There are two screens and you cross your eyes.

[Kramlack]

Although the L button sticks sometimes.

Just a heads up, enjoy it while it lasts. It's fairly common that the triggers on DS Lite's break quickly. I've lost my own DS Lite and know of a few friends who also have. This is the reason I had to upgrade to a DSi.

/end derailing

[Notch]

Is this "3D without glasses" the same as that headtracking technology?

This is what I'm expecting. We've already seen it demoed for the DS, too.

God, I hope that's not it. I want proper steroscopic images, not something that attempts to track what angle my eyes are to the screen, fail, and will always lag behind.

A passive technology (parallax barrier, as mentioned before) would be perfect since you almost always hold a hand held gaming device at somewhat predictable distances and angles.

And just imagine, Zelda 85 - Ghastly Subways will have 3d bosses! Woo!

[Demon Lizardman]

I'm hoping for gamecube graphics, Super Mario Sunshine portable anyone?

[Andrew Brophy]

The graphics look totally rad: