Nintendo returning to CES for 2011's 'Gaming Showcase'

The last time Nintendo exhibited at the Consumer Electronics Show, it presented graphical demos for its new "Project Reality," a joint project with Silicon Graphics — a project that we now know as the Nintendo 64. That was in 1994.

After that 16-year absence, Nintendo is returning to a CES more likely to be full of iPads than Newtons, and with Sega a happy partner instead of a bitter enemy. Though CES organizers didn't announce exactly what Nintendo would be exhibiting at the 2011 CES "Gaming Showcase," it seems likely that Nintendo chose this venue, which features "the latest gaming technology advancements," to show off its new consumer electronics device, the 3DS. Its 3D display will fit right in among the masses of gadgets shown off at the expo.

[Thanks, Tyler. Image credit: CEA]