I also like to know when this supposedly happened...

Me too, and I do think I do think that a cigar is sometimes JUST a cigar.  

Square made 3-D Worldrunner on the NES in 1987. It was their first game to make it to America. It had 3-D, for use with glasses.



So this is all Square's fault. They also made Rad Racer in 3-D, same year. It was programmed by Nasir Gebelli, designed and supervised by Hironobu Sakaguchi, and featured music by Nobuo Uematsu, right before they made Final Fantasy, same year.

(Magic Carpet on the PC kicked ass in 3-D too, back in 1994. I wonder if the PSN port still lets you wear 3-D glasses.)


And for the record, I'm not an 8 or 9 year old, and I have more than one DS. In real life (as in not this web site of rabid crazies), almost every gamer I know is in their 20s or 30s. Almost all of them have a DS. This PR statement was trying to grossly mislabel Nintendo as "just for babies." Sony and MS have both been trying to do that for a decade. Even Bill Gates said the Wii isn't a competitor to the 360 because it only caters to the younger market. Now... Natal is coming out so families and 9 year old girls and moms can dance in their living rooms.

why do people deny that the wii and ds are aimed at the younger demographic?

it is absurd to even argue this point... sure there are those in their late 20's and early 30's that may play it... but most will only do so to spend time with their own kids.

going by my experience, the majority of those in the age group of 16-25 will not use the wii/ds as their primary gaming provider.

the gaming library of the ds/wii is proof that it is made for the younger audience... for every No more heores, there are 20 brain age and animal crossing type games.

Nobody is deying that, but using this as an argument about the 3D experience is ... quite dumb even for the "executive yadda yadda" point of view

Oh yes Sony, because we all know that 9 year olds hate 3D...FFS when I was 9, I would have shit allover myself to just SEE something in 3D.

Fact is, this will make Nintendo tons of money, and they will be the first one to offer it. Sony will copy it, of course, just like the Wii with motion control and just like the DS with touch screens(speculation, but can you imagine a PSP2 without a touch screen, really?). Now all consoles have motion controls and all devices have touch screens, and Nintendo is vastly wealthy with everyone either copying their current systems, or with plans to copy said systems in the very near future.

they already have it , firmware will hit soon for the ps3.

and non glasses technology it's rumored for the next PSP, also powervr chip for graphics and beefy ARM multi core cpu

Well, all handheld gaming consoles are aimed at a younger audience. You really think the Halo Crowd is rocking a PSP?

Yes, the DS has the vast advantage in casual games, but imo, it also has a relative advantage in core games, and shockingly, that is due mostly in part to 1st party Nintendo games or games that didn't sell that well to begin with.

Of course, not selling well on DS is usually a hit on the PSP proportionally, so lets not confuse ourselves. Even if the DS has a smaller core audience proportionally, it is still likely that the core DS audience is larger than the core PSP audience, simply due to the largely disproportional userbase.

That said, I guarntee that kids love 3D, it seems perfect for them, and Sony's statement is pure spin. This is going to sell like crack gone super sayijin, and I highly doubt even Sony would deny that.

Oh man I remember 3-D Worldrunner. It had some kind of scary dragon boss, right? Or somehting like that.

That game was great. I played it a LOT.