Many industry professionals are speculating that this is the technology that Nintendo will use in the Nintendo 3DS, however neither Sharp or Nintendo have confirmed it to be true. We probably won’t find out for sure until E3 either, however it could be highly likely seeing as Sharp were said to be working on the 3DS screens for Nintendo.
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Nintendo announced the DS’s successor this week in a surprise announcement, like a stealth bomber silently wiping out its targets. Apart from the announcement itself and a few rumours of the tech specs and a new Pokemon game, we don’t really now much more about it.
Even so, some top developers have given their opinion of what they think the 3DS will mean to the industry.
First up is French developer Arkedo Studio
Arkedo Studio
Arkedo are known for Big Bang Mini and Nervous Brickdown, is obviously a fan of unique visual tricks. The company’s founder Camille Guermonprez jokingly enquired if we were, “asking this question to the studio who took extra months and invested more money … just to add a lenticular cover?”
(If you grab the American or French versions of Big Bang Mini, you’re treated to an animated version of the game’s cover, thanks to a nifty lenticular lens.)
As for the 3DS itself, Guermonprez says, “This could be pretty exciting. As you may know, Arkedo always loves it when we have to take one specific ergonomic feature, and play around with it.” He continues. “So with the DS-from-the-future, we can’t wait to put our hands on it. It definitively sounds like fun and the potential could be huge, as often is with Nintendo.
“Count us in.”
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Filed under Developers, Hardware, Interviews, News, Nintendo DS, Rumours & Speculation by on Mar 25th, 2010. Comment.
So yesterday Nintendo announced the successor to the amazingly awesome DS – the Nintendo 3DS. That means until we get more concrete details from Nintendo themselves (probably not until E3) there will be hundreds of rumours and guesses about what the console consists of as well as what games will appear on it.
Today we have the first rumour! Could a new Pokemon game be in the works for the 3DS? Probably. Last year Nintendo placed an ad for a 3D artist to join the Pokemon development team and then the big N announced that a new generation Pokemon game would be with us in the winter of 2010/11 – the same time the 3DS is due.
Hmm… Related or not? Could well be likely.
You would be mad to think that a new Pokemon game would not appear on any Nintendo console at some point, considering that the games still sell in their millions. Whether this means a new Pokemon 3D is being readied for the consoles launch is anyone’s guess but the above facts seem to point in that direction. Only Nintendo know for sure!
Filed under Hardware, News, Nintendo DS, Rumours & Speculation by on Mar 24th, 2010. 1 Comment.
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