| Squilliam said: I don't particularly believe that 3D on consoles will be viable until the next generation hardware comes out with dedicated hardware to render the scenes more efficiently. |
I think that even then its going to be nich-ey. Its all about mass market, casuals casuals casuals!!
The thing is that 3D gaming has been available since 2007. Samsung and Mitsubishi supported it since then. Sure I bought a 3D capable TV as did about 4 million other people (nitsubishi said that 3D TV penetration is about 4 mil in north america at CES 2010)...but thats still less than 1% of the market.
The site below posted the 3D ready TVs that are coming out for 2010.
http://www.3dmovielist.com/3dhdtvs.html
Guess what? They are all ubber high end models. Sony XBR series is 3000 +dollars without 3D and 120 hz input...
Gone are the sub 1000 dollar 4 series plasmas that Samsung made in 2009 which support 3D. Replaced by the 8 and series plasmas that now cost 2000-3000 dollars without 3D. If cheaper DLP and plasma models got less than 1% of the marketshare, how will these high end models do?
Avatar has created this buzz around 3D and everyone is talking about it. 3D blurays are coming, 3d TV shows, 3D world cup even...But this buzz will die down by the time these clowns are ready(talking about the buzz for mainstream people, and not tech fanatics like us). All that will be left at that point is 2000+ dollar TVs that supposedly do "3D" and copies of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs in 3D which 98% of the bluray users are unable to watch cause they dont have the: 100+ dollar glasses, 2000+ dollar TV or 200+ dollar bluray player hich are 3D capable.
The more 3D starts to materialize the more I am starting to think that it will be one giant commercial falure. They could not even bother for it to be mainstream. Instead it may become the tech that people use to say to other people "My life is better than your life cause I have 3D TV".
