News.com.au reporter 'œmakes dick of himself' testing Nintendo 3DS

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Monday, 07 February 2011 10:47

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Due to be officially launched in Australia tomorrow night, said to be at a price $100 more than the regular version, Nintendo 3DS will have you seeing deeply into the third dimension.

Although Nintendo's official 3DS launch party to celebrate the release of its highly anticipated 3D-capable portable gaming system is due for tomorrow evening, Nintendo has clearly allowed some news organisations a 'sneak peek' into its latest and greatest.

News.com.au is one such lucky news organisation, with its reporter Andrew Ramadge clearly impressed with the 3DS's capabilities, causing him to elicit a 'wow' as he played with a few 3DS games, including an 'augmented reality' game somewhat unimaginatively titled 'Augmented Reality' that takes real life objects seen through the 3DS's camera and lets you interact with them on the 3DS screen.

Mr Ramadge even admits to having so much fun playing with one aspect of the game that he says 'I made a dick of myself in front of Nintendo's public relations person as I tried to clamber up on the table to look inside', in reference to the augmented reality game mentioned in the previous paragraph.

I'm sure he meant he made himself "look foolish" as he played around, but those are the words he used.

Unlike traditional 3D effects from movies where things 'come out of the screen at you', Nintendo's 3DS uses the 3D effect to give 'depth' to the on-screen scene, so instead of things popping out at you, you can look deep within - the opposite of the usual 3D effect.

The 3DS is supposed to have a slider on its side letting you control the level of 3D effect that you get, going from plain ol' 2D to a deep 3D experience and everywhere in between.

Mr Ramadge also explains that, because of the way Nintendo's 3D works, you might find yourself moving about a lot more as you attempt to peer at things from different angles, which might make playing 3DS games on the train a funny sight to see and harder to do than with non 3D gaming systems.

Continued on page two, it's time to see double and read on!