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Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement

Posted Mar 23, 2010 at 11:41PM EST by Ryan F.

Listed in: PSP, Nintendo DS Tags: 3ds, John Koller, Nintendo, SCEA

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With the Nintendo 3DS announcement generating a lot of buzz today in the interwebs, a lot of people were expecting Sony to fireback with the announcement of their own. Well they didn't, but they have a lot to say with the Big N's surprise revelation. Speaking with IGN, SCEA's Director of Hardware and Marketing John Koller has said that fans should not expect a 3D PSP anytime soon:

Our focus on 3D right now is on the console. There's a tremendous amount of opportunity on PlayStation 3 with 3D. The amount of interest in 3D from the retail side and game publishers is off the charts. We know we have a hit with 3D on PS3 and we're going to concentrate our efforts there.

I think it remains to be seen where Nintendo goes with 3D on a portable. Having been in the portable space for quite awhile, I think it's an interesting move but one I'd like to see where they go from a demographic standpoint. 8 and 9 year olds playing 3D is a little bit of a stretch given where some of our research is right now.

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You are a bit(long way) behind mate 3D has been done without glasses.
Here CES(report): http://goo.gl/8UGw (this technology out-dates the 2010 CES anyways)
But the only reason I don't see this working too well at all is because of major issues if you simply move your head abit away from the game , your eyes take a few seconds to adjust to the illusion. To use this without glasses on a DS; shit, the thing would have to be rather heavy for a handheld. Nintendo probably advanced the technology a BIT. Nintendo plans for 2011, i don't see things going to well for them.

+1 # RE: RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — Guest 2010-03-24 02:57

Fail. In another news post I just read a comment by you that said "Do you know how to read?"

Funny you ask, because apparently you don't yourself.

http://www.qj.net/qjnet/nintendo-ds/nintendo-announces-new-3ds-handheld.html

"details on how the handheld's 3D support will work are still scarce, although it has been confirmed that 3D glasses won't be required."

-1 # RE: RE: RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — But Fukir 2010-03-24 14:43

Oh thats very interesting.

I suppose you'd be able to play with 8 controllers too as long as everyone stood in the 8 spots where you can allegedly see it.

I'll believe it when I see it.
(Maybe I'm not standing in the right spot)

-1 # RE: RE: RE: RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — slacker1987 2010-03-24 14:46

The hell are you going on about?

-1 # RE: RE: RE: RE: RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — But Fukir 2010-03-25 01:36

Your mother.

-1 # ... — SeRosiS 2010-03-24 03:08

VirtualBoy anyone?

-1 # RE: ... — But Fukir 2010-03-24 03:28

Gunpei's window seat?

+2 # RE: RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — Demonsweat 2010-03-24 04:32

I saw a video on youtube once where some guy strapped a Wiimote-like sensor to a headband and got a 3D image on the screen to change perspective based on the angle from which he looked at the screen. So it's actually already possible to do it without glasses.

-1 # RE: RE: RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — But Fukir 2010-03-24 05:39

That sounds pretty cool.

Although I'm not sure whether strapping a Wii-mote to your forehead will be much more popular than the glasses.

;)

+2 # Oh Yeah — Guest 2010-03-24 06:13

Oh yeah, I saw it too. It's pretty interesting, though it isn't quite practical in the since you have move around your head a lot to see the 3Dness. Besides, it would be pretty difficult to play especially since we usually play by flicking the mote with our wrists.

+2 # RE: RE: RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — Khav 2010-03-24 06:55

They've already got a Japanese DSi demo that can do the same thing, no wiimote or anything required. Just tilt your DS or move your head.

+1 # Read — BryCee12 2010-03-24 06:53

If you read properly, they are going to make it so that you do not have to wear the glasses.

They dont have to 'create' it, it can be done already, thats why we are all eagerly waiting april, for our super-cool hi-tech 3D BRAVIA LED TVs:D

+1 # . — Guest 2010-03-24 07:48

No glasses needed for the 3DS, that will beat anything the PS3 does with 3D since it will be quite some time before any affordable glassesless TV's are available, and yes they are coming.

# Wrong — BryCee12 2010-03-29 09:09

The whole lineup that is coming out soon (1 month?) is going to be 'glassesless'. Didn't you see that Samsung press conference thingi?

+1 # Yea — aperson2 2010-03-24 08:27

It has happened. Sorry you weren't informed.

# PureDepth — Guest 2010-03-25 20:19

3D tech without glasses:
http://www.puredepth.co.nz/

+1 # RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — Khav 2010-03-24 06:54

Of course they're not going to announce a 3D psp yet. They're going to bash it for months, then release their own version after it's proven wildly successful.

-1 # RE: RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — Guest 2010-03-24 07:24

Or this means they will introduce a PSP 2 at E3. Their statement above will be true then, no 3D for the PSP, but maybe on the next gen handheld.

# Ooooh boy — aperson2 2010-03-24 08:35

This I can't wait for. Some ex-colleagues are working at first party Nintendo studios now and they've been so heavily bound with NDAs.

Can't wait for this new DS. I was considering getting a DSi but I guess now I'll just wait considering it has 100% backwards compatibility.
Just so excited for the types of games they could do with this technology, especially when it comes to something already as perfected as Pokemon, Mario and Metroid. F-Zero on it? I don't think I'd need another racing game as long as I live.

This is why I like Nintendo now compared to the rest. New features in a console? Brilliant! So much better than just upping the storage capacity and graphics.

# ... — symbal 2010-03-24 09:07

Sony's already shown they get things wrong when they take risks on new technology and ideas with the complete failure that is Psp Go, so they'll probably just stick to standard operating practice of letting someone else develop the idea then do it for themself and inevitably do no more than an average job at it.

# wait!!!!!!!!! — Guest 2010-03-24 09:41

the really is sony waiting for xbox portable and will overdo it....i think..

# 3d doesn't interest me — kupomogli 2010-03-24 10:59

Here's something for the Nintendo fanboys though.

Can't Nintendo ever come up with an idea of their own? After Sony has been working on doing 3d for awhile now, now Nintendo jumps in to want to do 3d. Sound familiar? When Sony does Six Axis and then announces the motion control and the 360 announces the Natal?

Nintendo does suck as a company, but atleast it's never had a bad handheld. Why? Always gets great third party support.

# Really... — Guest 2010-03-24 12:54

Are you an idiot or were you just born that way? While I don't know about Six Axis, how the hell do you explain that little PS Move or whatever the hell they call the Wii remote rip-off. Besides, 3D doesn't belong to anyone. It was created so that others could implement it to other technologies to make said technologies more entertaining. Even then the DS probably isn't using actual 3D, rather a new screen that is being implemented into phones as of late

www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7qsS8_la-I&feature=PlayList&p=98CBDCD2D8711DF6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index

So don't say anything if you don't know what you are talking about.

# You should ask yourself that first question — kupomogli 2010-03-24 16:54

Notice in my reply I posted "Sound familiar?"

Because ever since Sony copied motion sensing with the Six Axis, Nintendo fanboys have been like "Why can't Sony ever come up with their own ideas, etc." Then when Microsoft does it. "Natal is just a motion sensing ripoff."

So yeah. My reply was to turn the entire respone that Nintendo fanboys use time and time again around on Nintendo itself.

# And yeah, 3d isn't new — kupomogli 2010-03-24 17:01

But Sony is the first to be integrating it into the PS3 firmware. Then Nintendo jumps on it and starts building a console around it. Why? I dunno.

Maybe since "unique" was the way to get sales. Who cares if the unique way of playing sucks balls. Nintendo is now trying to be innovative on every single system they have released recently.

Or hey. If you want to hear some more shit about Nintendo. What about the DSi anyways. The DS was already a perfectly good system, but why not release the DSi which adds DLC as DSiWare, SD Cards, able to play music, watch videos, browse the internet, etc. Damn. Because their DS sales started going down why not add everything the PSP already has onto the DS, then add a cheap camera onto it so it has one thing better.

So I'll go back again to what the Nintendo fanboys have been saying. "Can't Nintendo ever come up with an idea of their own."

# ... — symbal 2010-03-24 11:10

Sony might have been working on things like 3D and Sixaxis but Nintendo always takes the risk first with the technology first then Sony implements it after Nintendo develops the idea, so really what Sony's doing is irrelevant if they not innovative enough to get past the design stage, i mean it's like saying the Ford model T Wasn't important because someone else invented the car first.

# *sigh* — Guest 2010-03-24 12:01

3D will be like Six-Axis, Cool from the start but then You'd get bored, unless they make an Innovative way of 3D, like heavy rain made use of the Six-Axis

# DS is a toy, PSP is hardware — Guest 2010-03-24 13:26

There are a couple of guys in my D&D group who are 20 and 27 and they both have DS Lites and that godawful Pokemon game with the Pedometer. I say godawful because they bypass the pedometer's step count sensor by attaching it to their feet, which they then tap the entire D&D session.

For kids, it's a great opportunity to take mobile gaming in an active direction. Us adults who like portable gaming and ARG elements fair better (and more maturely) with games like MSG:PO with it's wifi detection mini-game (it also lends itself to dangerous driving if you try to do both at once).

The funny part is this is the same guy who flipped out on me for playing a PSP game (D&D tactics) while at our weekly D&D game. But at least my game was still somehow connected to D&D.

Besides, there is nothing sadder than a grown man cussing a flattened pokeball when he's supposed to be focusing on the game at hand (and the 6 other people waiting for him to take his turn).

# Bet you anything — Guest 2010-03-24 13:39

DS3D sells like hotcakes, sony comes out with the PSP3D 4 years later, claims its the "future" of gaming.

-1 # Sony is no more — Guest 2010-03-24 13:57

Nintendo runs in first place with Wiimote, at last the Natal is not just a copy from the wii mote, but a new form to play and sony looses for the incapacity to turn eye toy something good.

-1 # RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — But Fukir 2010-03-24 14:47

Virtualboy DS IMO.

With nunchuck aspirin dispenser peripheral.

# I guess... — Guest 2010-03-24 15:11

3D without glasses won't be real 3D, but rather a camera on top of the screen will be able to guesstimate your head movements and the informations on the screen will reflect that(inclinatio n, rotation, sliding up and down, etc.)

# RE: I guess... — Guest 2010-03-24 16:18

It has been possible to do 3d without glasses for a lot for time (i'm pretty sure that you've seen one of 3d those cards that have something like a transparent film made of a lot of tiny prisms), it is now possible to do full-motion 3d screens but with a lot better quality. If you see a video, it doesnt look good, you have to see the effect live

# lol ds is for every age xD — Guest 2010-03-24 15:54

ds is definitely for ages like 4-2x lol
pokemon is a legendary game

never gets old lol doesnt matter how old u are

-2 # RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — Shardnax 2010-03-24 16:25

Sony's demographic is a bunch of stupid teenagers with a lead pipe lodged somewhere that think any crap Sony throws at them is great. Not to say they haven't released anything decent. Just that the fan boys are dumb.

-1 # RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — But Fukir 2010-03-24 17:47

I'm thinking its going to take something more apparent to the naked eye like holograms to catch on.

Maybe many thin screens layered into a brick to simulate depths?

Just an idea.

+1 # RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — Guest 2010-03-24 18:35

First of all, I'm not a Sony fanboy, I do recognize they make horrible decisions most of the time.
But, I don't really care about 3D, so I'm glad Sony says no to it. If they want to sell it later as an accesory, fine. I also don't give a damn about cameras and touchscreens, I prefer to have those in a cellphone. If they're gonna release a PSP2, they should improve the graphics a notch (though I'm very satisfied with my PSP), or make it handle more polygons and better textures (hopefully PS2 emulation XD) and bring more exclusives. They should improve the internet performance, add youtube support and the like (without CFW) and divx or H.264 video support. And for God sake, ADD A 2ND FREAKING NUB. I mean, if I want to play crappy childish games I just might play on an DS emulator rather than buy the actual console.Chinatown Wars doesn't count as exception as it's not an exclusive anymore.

@ Shardnax
I do recognize that MAYBE 20% of what comes out for a Sony platform is good, however, that 20% is far more convincing for me than a 99.9% crapload of shovelware released for the Wii or the DS.
Just some names for you to memorize that can't be played on a Nintendo Console: Resistance, Final Fantasy from VII-XIII (6 my favourite but still playable on Sony consoles), Dissidia, Crisis Core, Kindgdom Hearts 1-2-BBS, GOW, Killzone, Metal Gear Solid, Heavy Rain, LBP, Uncharted... well, I think you were referring to Apple and PSP Go fanboys (regarding demographic), who don't care to spend a lot of money and get screwed in the process.

+2 # RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — Kam 2010-03-25 02:10

nintendos garbage anyway i dont care if they impliment holographic imaging.. theyr still gona have the worst games. theyr been around in the console business way before sony- and still theyr way behind in every aspect of the games industry - failed before they started.

and for the fanboys of natal -point your fingers at the tv screen in a 45 degree angle and shout "pheww phewwww" if you see an enemy.. - another fail

# RE: RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — But Fukir 2010-03-25 05:26

All that yoshi and mario sh!t is so truly over-rated!

+1 # RE: Sony says no 3D PSP anytime soon, questions Nintendo 3DS announcement — CSP 2010-03-26 11:37

To the "hardcore" idiot over there, I "playtested" Chinatown Wars and I thought it was AWFUL. GTA1 had better vehicle control and going top down on a small screen, you need to be very zoomed out in order to see where you are going. I had the chance to buy this (online retailer) at 12Eu and I PASSED ON IT.

See I can provide you with a LONG list of very hard to beat DS games but you would probably won't care for a few of them because they DONT LOOK GRITTY ENOUGH.

Casual gamers who believe they are core are the worst.

# Gamers — Guest 2010-03-26 11:46

Calling yourself a gamer is for losers. Either you play and your good or bad or you don't play.

# Why did i just read this? — Guest 2010-03-27 12:15

why?

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