Nintendo disappoints over 3DS battery life
Nintendo has revealed the Japanese launch date for its 3DS gaming console, as well as system specifications, which has prompted disappointment over battery life. Nintendo 3DS Sales for the stereoscopic console will start on February 26 for Y25,000 (£190) a pop in Japan, with the US and Europe set to follow in March. Nintendo …
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Battery
One of the BIG plus points the GB/DS series of handhelds have had is the battery life... Oh dear Nintendo :(
Bright Side
Just wait. Just like smartphones have an "oversized battery" market, the 3DS will to.
Nothing to see here, move along....
3D damaging to children
Funny, the last time I checked, everything in our current reality/The Matrix was 3D - how on earth do the children cope?
'Cause it isn't 3D
It's stereoscopic. There's a difference. Stereoscopy lacks accommodation, may muck-up a still-developing visual system.
3D damage
The problem stems from that the brain's perception of actual distance (and thus proper perception of depth) includes not only parallax (the difference between the two eyeballs' images) but also how the muscles focusing the eye's lens are working. And eye focus while using the device are always focused on the screen at the distance that the screen is, which does NOT necessarily match how the real world is... That training happens at a young age.
Real vs fake
That's real 3D which their eyes are designed to cope with as opposed to fake, trying to fool you into thinking it's 3D which doesn't work for everyone, can induce headaches and apparently is bad for the children.
stereoscopic rather than 3d
a young child's eyes/brain are still getting used to processing real 3d properly and do not really want to be subjected to this fake 3d effect over long periods.
A lot of the stuff we do automatically, ie judging distances based on 3d vision, eyes focusing/aligning correctly, etc. is stuff we essentially learned, over time, during our childhood. The very way this works is by exploiting those learned responses, and could easily interfere with them if they aren't yet fixed.
While the occasional few hours of toy story in a cinema won't do any harm, 5-10 hours a day of it close up would be a different matter.
Is anyone else...
thinking that this will be the device that will allow 3d porn to go mainstream?
you probably shouldn't watch more than 3-5 hours in 1 go anyway :)
If 3D porn dose go mainstream
If 3D porn dose go mainstream as a result of this new piece of gadge, expect sales of wipe-clean screen protector to surge too!
Maybe we will also see a new sideline in novelty styluses too!
Not that bad
I don't know about you but about the most I ever got out of my DS Lite, even when I just bought it, was around 8 hours. Can't wait for the 3DS... Just hope they don't pull something later like "3DSi"! That would really annoy me.
Nintendo has lost it
They seem to have forgotten what made the GB/GBA/DS successful. The battery life and the new obsession over cinematic 3D games might make threaten their domination of the handheld console market. I might get one anyway, but I'll wait for the 3DS XL.
Gotta give up something
Nintendo was always going for low-powered devices and tried to get the 3rd party content creators to be more innovative with their techniques. But it seems the market demand for high powered low battery live hand-held game devices has Nintendo changing their paradigm. Look at the iPod and iPod touch, when you're playing games, they don't last long on battery. PSP is pretty much the same which is 3-6 hours. Gotta give the kiddies what they want or their buy from the competition.
Maybe...
It's to stop it from damaging the older person's eyes! ;)
battery life
The original DS only got around that (I still use mine, works great) so that is not really a huge issue in my eyes.
I just hope it doesn't pull a virtual boy, and stays around (I still got mine works great :D).
I will be buying one on day one anyways
will I get my wrist slapped for copyright infringement?
Father Ted: Now concentrate this time, Dougal. These
[he points to some plastic cows on the table]
Father Ted: are very small; those
[pointing at some cows out of the window]
Father Ted: are far away...
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