Nintendo 3DS hardware producer Hideki Konno has revealed that the Nintendo 3DS originally lacked the 3D visuals and the gyroscopic sensor.
“I became involved with development starting in 2008, but at that time, it didn’t have 3D visuals,” admitted Konno. Given that the original 3DS designs didn’t look very different from the DS Lite, what convinced Nintendo to switch to 3D?
“With this system, you could say the timing was just right for us,” explained Konno. “It was the right time to start thinking about using the latest in high-tech and try out glasses-free 3D. The technology we got to demo was really impressive, and starting in early 2009, we began to think that it was time to bring it to games.”
Yet Nintendo didn’t stop with 3D visuals. According to Konno, Shigeru Miyamoto wanted more from the system and pressed for a gyro sensor.
“Those sensors were actually put in pretty late. We officially went with them just before E3 last year. The boat had really left the port by that point – the hardware team had the final specs and just had to work it all out.
“Then, in the midst of that, Miyamoto said ‘This isn’t enough; we can really change things if there’s a gyro sensor in there.’ We had a prototype for the sensor already, so we got everyone together to try it out, and the conclusion we came up with was ‘Well, if we can do things this fun with it, I guess we’ve got no choice.'”
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Miyamoto you trouble maker!
That explains why this feels so rushed with the lack of quality launch games.
For us following Iwata Asks, and you should if you are a nintendo fan that follows this site, this is old news.
But keep up the good work!
I Doubt the nintendo 3DS will have the same success that the NDS did. It has amazing graphics for a nintendo portable and 3D is innovating, but does the 3D really changes gameplay? And how it will be for people that turn it off? How developers will deal with this?. I dont think the 3DS will be a great evolution on nitendo’s handhelds like the NDS was.
I guess we aren’t all following the info on pre order sales? I got mine preordered along with A LOT of other people!
but that’s only at launch and that is kinda predictable because it is the succesor of a really sucessfull handheld. But how much It will sell on the next years?? Im not saying it will be a fail, i just think that N3DS won’t overcome NDS sales in its life years. And it cost 100US$ more!! That is risky Nintendo!
So it used to be a DS with a joystick-like thing added and better graphics? Ok.
My question is how will you be able to maintain the 3D visuals while tilting and moving the system around?
you can’t, thats been confirmed :/