There aren't many mass production options on the market when it comes to glasses-less 3D displays for Nintendo's forthcoming
3DS handheld gaming console. And according to early leaks from Japan, the special Nintendo 3DS display is
supposedly built by Hitachi and Sharp using a parallax barrier system. So guess where this new 3.4-inch, 480 x 854 pixel display is likely headed? While Sharp doesn't say for sure, it's a good bet that this parallax barrier 3D LCD will be fronting the user interface on the 3DS. Unlike the 3D displays you'll find in modern 3D HDTVs requiring the viewer to wear active or passive glasses, Sharp's display uses a parallax barrier system to create a sense of depth by using a series of vertical slits in an ordinary LCD to direct light to the right and left eyes. The panel offers a 500nit brightness, 1,000:1 contrast, and is available with or without a touchscreen. A non-touchscreen version of the display goes into mass production before June but there's no specific mention of the touchscreen timeline (but we imagine it won't be far behind). In other words, we could have a Nintendo 3DS on the market before the holidays. Just saying. Guess we'll find out for sure at E3 in June.
Update:
Akihabara News went
eyes-on with the display and came away impressed with the colors and brightness. "Sharp have succeeded to do what Sony and Panasonic did without the need for 3D Glasses," the publication praised. Well, that sounds hopeful.
posted April 2nd 2010 1:11AM
OH MY GOD that deer is headed straight for me!!!
@skyblaze
seriously though... i really really hope this is true. 256x192 TFT on these current models just really grinds my nerves... especially when jumping back and forth from my psp and nexus one
@skyblaze Its coming right at us..*BANG!*
@skyblaze
im interested in seeing how the 3DS processor will handle two 3D screens and still provide a quality gaming experience....I know I would never buy it, but hey its still interesting non-the-less. Should be great for the little kids though, theyll drool over it in my opinion
@abedinthehouse
hey! just because it says nintendo does NOT mean its just for kids. coming straight from the (shameless) 19 year old pokemon player who just so happens to be caught up in breeding for the ultimate dragonite as he types this... :P
ill be picking this up day one.
@abedinthehouse i wished it would only have one display like acandy bar form but then "3 Dual Screen" would not make sence
Okay, so now I know it's not beating the DSi XL in screen size. Looking forward to E3 to learn more, though.
@skyblaze
The deer is probably out looking for a shika-senbei.
Ask yourself this question, the LCD in question, is it a multiple of DS's current resolution?
If not, then it can't be used.
@abedinthehouse Wow, you must be stuck in the 90's, kids haven't been the majority of gamers since then - right now the average gamer is 32 years old! And DS is very popular among adults, with a lot of games targeted at them.
@Extinction Why not? Even the GBA could do scaling to non-exact sizes. And the DS plays GBA games, though the resolution of the DS screen isn't a multiple of the GBA resolution (they just surround the GBA screen with a thin black box).
@abedinthehouse
People still think only kids buy Nintendo handhelds? Maybe back when it was just the Game & Watch but I'd say around 80 percent of all Nintendo handheld owners are adults. Anyway Nintendo is probably partnered with nVidia and gonna toss the Tegra 2 in there.
@skyblaze Your my hero!
@Dreamwriter It's a LOT harder to do that in 3D. You NEED a resolution equal to, or a (whole number) multiple larger
@Dreamwriter For starters, if it's not a multiple larger, than you have to downscale. And the resolution in the example, is not 2x larger.
Downscaling = really crappy graphics. Well, crappier than what DS already has
@canibaljay The video explaining the firmware of the new 3ds is really astounding, take note, no need to use glasses on this one. Opinions: http://bit.ly/nintendo-3ds-impressions
@skyblaze
Its funny, we almost hit a deer yesterday......
@skyblaze
Dude, I watched this weird videotape, then 7 days later a psycho Deer came out of my TV and nibbled my nuts.... PLEASE GOD MAKE IT STOP!
@Dreamwriter
While the average gamer may be 32, the average DS gamer is not.I am 34, The only two people I know who own a DS is my 8 yr old nephew and my 14 yr old nehew (who stopped playing it when he got his first girlfriend).
That's not meant to be a knock, None of the people I know closer to my age own any portable gaming options outside their phone. Its just a younger gaming market in general.
@Extinction
Then dont scale at all. 1:1 pixel mapping can work, and that's what's done on the DS right now. Looks as good as it did on my GBA.
And as for 3D rendering, you don't HAVE to go 3D. Just leave it in 2D.
@Anticrawl If they did, I would definitely buy it.
@jayleigh I can tell you my entire social group have one iteration or another of DS. Well over a dozen people in their late 20s early 30s. I also know of at least a half dozen of their parents that also have them. DS is absolutely not just a kids device.
@skyblaze
WOOT!!! Im not alone!!
it wont be out this year...mark those words!
@Aceyriot if they are showing it in E3, they are releasing for fall/winter in Japan and in March to the rest of the world. They done that for 6 portables
Two of those bad boys, at that resolution, powered by tegra, with a new pokemon at launch. Nintendo has won the next generation before it has even begun.
@B3astofthe3ast
i approve of this comment.
@B3astofthe3ast
I'd like to believe you, but there has NEVER been a pokemon game available as a launch title T_T
Some Final Fantasy Tactics equivalent might be possible though...
@ChaosEntity I don't know, they already revealed a few generation 5 pokemon so its possible.
@B3astofthe3ast Pokemon!!?? what age are you guys ffs.. nintendo make kids consoles and who over the age of 12 plays freaking pokemon of all things...
@B3astofthe3ast
Sir, I see your Tegra and PKMN, and raise you one Tegra 2 + a PKMN MMORPG ...
... yeah right. I wish. PKMN MMORPG would ... get my $15 a month, I'm ashamed to say.
@Bongo123
Pokemon might look like a fun kiddy game on teh outside (and it is accessible to kids), but its actually got some pretty hardcore RPG mechanics.
@Bongo123
Funny, because most of the people you hear play MW2 sound like they're 12 too, so I guess thats a "kids" game also. I dont care what people say, Im 20 and have played every main pokemon game, and enjoyed all of them.
@B3astofthe3ast
Proud 36 year old Pokémon player.
@jph89 Makes a damn good point... I actually bet the average age of a Pokemon game player is now older than the average age of a CoD player... On CoD all you hear are whiny 8 year olds on mic, with Pokemon the whole "craze" thing was many years ago so all the original players will have grown up now (take me and my friends, for example, we're all 17 now and we play the Pokemon games still), whereas half the younger kids these days will have never touched Pokemon.
@B3astofthe3ast just give me a new Zelda game to play on this thing and you'll have me sold
Cant wait for this handheld. Please dont be too gimicky. Just make it a awesome handheld
It would be awesome if it had a capacitive touch screen but that would mess up the backward compatibility.
@Evi1d33d
how would that happen? The touch input would be pratically the same.
@davidmuful
You have never heard of a capacitive stylus?
@davidmuful
no, there are capacitive stylus out there. just google htc capacitive stylus
I don't know a whole lot about this Paralalaxalagram 3d stuff. So if Sharp's 3d display is 480 x 854, is that the final resolution of the screen? This kind of 3d doesn't cut the resolution in half like other 3d displays right?
Does any of that make sense? I remember reading somewhere that there was a glasses free 3d solution that would have whatever the resolution of the screen in order to project in stereoscopic. Is that how Parallax works or no? I guess that's my question.l
@superaj My guess is in 3D mode the resolution is halved. But that you can probably disable the 3D mode with one switch and play the games in full WVGA resolution.
"Better yet, the display goes into mass production before June meaning we coudl have a Nintendo 3DS on the market before the holidays."
Didn't they say it will launch this year? Also, could?
@Sponge
they "said" it would be revealed during this month's E3.
@Wiggy Fuzz
E3 is in June.
@Sponge It's launching this "fiscal year" - which ends in March 2011.
I hope it has new hardware behind it. Mostly something like Tegra 2.
(854 x 480) x 2 displays = Holy ****.
Technically this would be cut in half for 3D mode. But still, that'd be pretty impressive. Especially going from 256x192 (per) on the current DS models. I kinda doubt Nintendo will though. I mean that's [more than] twice as many pixels than the Wii can output.
@Plothole "I mean that's [more than] twice as many pixels than the Wii can output."
Which should tell you Nintendo won't be doing that