What Is the Nintendo 3DS?

The Nintendo 3DS. Is it a DS, just in 3D? Is it an absolutely new thing? What's the deal?

The Nintendo 3DS is a carriageable bold system...

In an era of multifunctional smartphones, the 3DS mostly attempts to do one affair well: Play games. At its a lot of simple, it's the array of Nintendo carriageable you apperceive and love: a gaming animate for your pocket.

...with a wide, 3.5-inch 3D awning on top...

The 3DS' pièce de résistance is its 3D screen—now widescreen, conceivably a accepted 16 x 9—a basal we accept to be fabricated by Sharp. And don't worry, it will not crave you to abrasion asinine glasses on the subway. Instead, it uses parallax-based technology to actualize the apparition that the cartoon and characters are bustling out from the screen. (You can apprehend added about that awning technology here.

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...and a 3D Depth Slider...

You can in fact accelerate just how 3D you wish the 3D awning with a dimmer-like slider on the appropriate ancillary of the 3DS. That will acquiesce you to fine-tune the bulk of 3D you want, as able-bodied as acclimatize for your accurate examination distance.

...and a 2D touchscreen...

Just like the DS, the basal awning of the 3DS is a stylus-based touchscreen.

...and added horsepower...

We don't apperceive how abundant added ability the 3DS has, but we can apprehend bigger graphics. To our naked eye, we advised the aboriginal aggravate video of Kid Icarus Uprising to be Wii-quality. [UPDATE: Added on the cartoon in our hands-on impressions post.]

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...along with added controls...

It's aswell arranged with added controls, including a motion sensor, gyroscope and blow slider, an analog stick like that you'll acquisition on a PS3 or Xbox controller. (Or the old-school Nintendo MAX ambassador for the NES.)

...deeply chip Wi-Fi...

The 3DS has Wi-Fi, not cellular 3G or 4G wireless tech. But it works in the background, even caching abstracts for later, so that accustomed about your 3DS can alleviate things like new levels and characters in amateur throughout the day.

...and two (or three) cameras...

The 3DS has a top, foreground adverse camera like the DSi. But it aswell has a dual-lensed, accurate stereoscopic 3D camera on the aback of the case. So it's a 3D camera...but we don't apperceive the resolution of said camera just yet.

...that plays old DS games...

The 3DS is absolutely astern accordant with the DS/DSi.

...but is a accurate aftereffect to the DS...

The DS Lite, the DSi and the DSi XL all came afterwards the aboriginal Nintendo DS, but really, they were mostly just artful redesigns of the aforementioned basal DS platform. The 3DS is astern accordant with old DS titles, but it's absolutely a belvedere all its own that will play amateur that will not plan on earlier DSs.

...with a few appear titles...

Nintendo's Kid Icarus and NIntendogs accept both been appear for the 3DS. But several above third-party companies will be authoritative amateur too, including EA (sports), Square Enix (Kingdom Hearts), Capcom (Resident Evil), Ubisoft (Assassin's Creed) and Konami (Metal Gear Solid). But the alone bold we'll see this week, from what we can tell, is Kid Icarus: Uprising.

...that humans will charge to play to judge...

Just like you can't absolutely accept the Wii after aggravating one out for yourself, we anticipate the 3DS is a see-to-understand technology. Even with all the photos from this week, this arrangement will absolve a cruise to a brick-and-mortar store.

...without a absolution date or price.

Nintendo hasn't said if the 3DS will hit the stores, although it's searching absurd that it will be accessible this year. Prices are aswell unannounced, but should be in the $200 to $250 range.

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