Nintendo announces DS successor, titled 3DS - console
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Nintendo announced the successor to its
handheld gaming DS platform, which will include a 3D screen and debut
at this years E3 expo in Los Angeles. The main feature of the 3DS will
be its ability to project a 3D image to users without requiring them to
wear special glasses. Nintendo didn't disclose how this would be done
but it will most likely be with a screen that has a thin sheet of
lenses in front of the main display panel. Such screens, already in use
on at least on model of cell phone in Japan, focus a 3D image to a
particular point in space and the user can see a 3D image if they are
viewing from that point. In its report Wednesday, the
Nikkei said the screens on the 3DS (all DS devices have dual screens)
will be no larger than 4-inches. Nintendo's DSi XL, which launches this
week in the U.S. and is already on sale in Japan and Europe, has a
4.2-inch screen while the DSi has a 3.25-inch screen. It will also have
a 3D joystick and force feedback, and Nintendo is considering including
an accelerometer so that the device will react to tilting, the report
said. It will also offer improvements in wireless networking speed and
battery life. Nintendo has said the 3DS will launch sometime before the
end of March 2011, but the Nikkei report narrowed the time-frame to the
second half of this year.
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