Nintendo 3DS makes the crowd go wild

Mike Bantick
Monday, 28 March 2011 11:55

Opinion and Analysis

A couple of days before its release, Nintendo has dropped a 3DS into the iTWire office.  Despite grumblings about price, and the revelation of the 3DS having already been hacked, one thing is for certain, the wow factor of glasses free 3D is fresh and exciting for budding and veteran DS fans.

Armed with a copy of Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition, Nintendogs + Cats and the enclosed Augmented Reality cards, it was time to get some untethered moments with the 3DS. 

Unfortunately whether it is in the office, or home (in a well-connected gossip wise street) it is not long before a crowd is attracted to the news of a Nintendo 3DS being nearby.

You can read all about the technical specifications with our first hands on some time ago, here.

Spending more time with the AU$350 device shows just how much wow-factor Nintendo has injected into the new hand-held, that 3D screen is amazingly crisp, particularly when you adjust the 3D slider to suit the width of your eyes and playing distance.  It is not much fun for the gathered crowd however who are more likely to see a blur of pixels as if the owner is watching a new form of censored portable pornography.

In a way, that is not a bad description; people are both intrigued and titillated by the devices capabilities.  Run them through a couple of bouts using the dynamic camera feature of Super Street Fighter IV and the superlatives start flowing.  The new nub controller is a welcome introduction for people wanting to flex their fighting finger muscles.

Fire up the Augmented Reality, where a table placed card becomes a virtualised target range, or simply let them loose with the 3D camera and soon everybody wants their hands on the device.

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