A game console, many people today to go: the smartphone. That hurts traditional video game manufacturers like Nintendo. The mobile console 3DS, which provides three-dimensional images without glasses, the Japanese want to stop the downward trend. Since the Game Boy is the name synonymous with the Nintendo game console in your pocket, for digital entertainment on the train or the car back seat.But the mobile console, the Japanese have gotten ever-present competition. Smart phones give off decent playmates and are always there anyway. Nintendo fights now, by arming a new generation of portable consoles. The 3DS has a 3-D screen, the player has no need for special glasses. Nintendo had several years of phenomenal success as a gaming provider for non-or little player.
The motion sensitive controller of the living room game console Wii also swing like children, women and seniors. Target groups, which many in the industry long neglected. The mobile console DS also attracts many casual gamers, they chase "Super Mario" in karts on the track or supply the virtual pets "Nintendogs".
But this strategy has two weaknesses. First, buy the little player too little software. The other is that now come into the years DS models much competition: arch-rival Sony has with its PSP, a similar group of buyers look. And smartphones now offer a gaming experience that many to be sufficient for snacks between meals.
Particularly since more and more users have a multimedia phone and the games are cheap or even free. This trend is reflected by the Nintendo's balance sheet. In the current fiscal year, sales collapsed, wrote in the first half of the previously very successful companies at all loss. This has to do with exchange rate losses due to the strong yen, partly due to the growing competition for the Wii but it is also with the sluggish sales of mobile consoles.
With the Nintendo 3DS goes to both problems. A 3-D screen that generated without special glasses a spatial impression of something even the super-smart phones do not have. At the same time the device is computationally strong, complex games that run on it. Thus, the company again wooing an audience that largely ignored it for years: small and big guys who like to play and a lot.
This is what titles like "Metal Gear Solid" or "Final Fantasy", which both have loyal fan bases. Another plus: The new generation is backwards compatible and also plays title for DS and DS but not in 3D. As the release date for the 3DS in the European market called Nintendo 25 March. A price was not mentioned by the Japanese company at the presentation in Amsterdam.
The expected but are at about 200 €: In Japan 25 000 yen are due, converted 225 euros, the U.S. $ 250, about 185 €. To start 25 games with 3D mode will be available. If the 3DS a "Game Changer"? If one believes industry experts, the chances of the new Pocket Nintendo are good. Many who have received the device is already in hand swarm.
The German video game magazine GEE wrote that the 3-D effect covered the whole body: "You want to reach into the world behind the screen." For the first time feel as if that possible. Bobby Kotick, chief of the gaming company Activision Blizzard said that even the 3DS can a "Game Changer" also be a device that changes the rules of the market.
The software maker apparently believe in a success in 3D. Months before they announced the launch of more than 50 tracks for just about all audiences, including adaptations of major hits such as "Mario Kart", "Metal Gear Solid" or "Final Fantasy". In addition, Nintendo plans alliances with Hollywood studios to its animated films in 3D on the console to get.
With the variety of opportunities for a kick start to grow significantly. A hook, the 3-D-enthusiasm of the electronics industry, not every spectator and player can the visual illusion that the depth effect is based. Nintendo recommends that the console is not for children under six. Out of sheer caution, as it says.
With pre-presentations also reported a few adults from dizziness. The success of the 3DS is important that it remains on individual cases. Nintendo usual dizzy. Conti: View in 3D: For each eye, a separate image = Amsterdam (dpa) - In order to maintain two-dimensional images on the big screen or TV screen a depth effect, it needs a trick: the two eyes see one another, spatially offset image - as in real life.
This creates the 3D effect. xxx There are different methods to create three-dimensional images. Most TV manufacturers embrace the shutter method. It will appear on the screen turns the images for the left and right eye. A so-called shutter glasses includes one glass, so that each eye receives the correct images.
A disadvantage of this procedure, the glasses: they are expensive, heavy and must be recharged regularly. When the mobile console Nintendo 3DS to the spatial impression created without glasses. The separation of the images for both eyes done in the device: a fine grid on the screen scatters the light in a slightly altered angle.
But this is different: Who moves away with the face too far from the center, is no longer in 3D.
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