Nintendo Taking Another Shot at 3D Portable Gaming

Nintendo today announced they will be bringing a 3D version of their portable system sometime during the fiscal year ending March 2011. Nintendo’s goal is to create a system in which “games can be enjoyed with 3D effects without the need for any special glasses.” Being dubbed the “Nintendo 3DS” will be backwards compatible with any DS and DSi game. They plan on announcing more at this year’s E3 held on June 15 but already people are speculating on how the system might work.

Some are thinking they will use the face-tracking technology which has already been used in a DSi game 3D Hidden Picture. The game uses the built-in camera to detect where the player is and shifts the game’s viewing perspective based on that.

This is very unlike Nintendo to announce a new system in development this soon before the big gaming event of the year and especially since the new DSiXL, a DSi featuring a larger screen, is set to hit retailers very soon. Hopefully their final design doesn’t involve looking at a bright red screen causing numerous headaches and eye problems.