Miyamoto Talks 3D Development, 3DS Online Services

Talking with Joystiq, Miyamoto said that Nintendo have been working on 3D tech for about 20 years and the 3DS is the result of research dating back to the Gamecube days.

SM: We knew the 3DS was coming. It was announced a while ago, but we didn’t expect so many games to be available. How long have you been working on the technology?

J: Nintendo’s been researching 3-D games for over 20 years. The first time we started looking at 3D with an LCD screen was during the GameCube days. We’ve continued to experiment with it since then, particularly implementing it into the 3DS. That’s something we’ve been working on for the past three years.

J: So back to 3DS, you guys talked about an online service for the platform. How similar is that to the DS online connection service and the Wii service? Are you guys fielding complaints about friend codes?

SM: I’m not really commenting on the working aspects of Nintendo 3DS today, but we’re obviously looking at taking the elements from the Wii online service and the Nintendo DS online service that work well and trying to find a way to maximize those the best that we can. Look at what we’ve done with the Nintendo DS, and that will give you an idea what the starting point is for what we’ll be doing on Nintendo 3DS. We’re just going to try and improve it from there.