Is 3DS a direct attack on Sony?

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LordTheNightKnight said:

Normally I would leave Mr. Malstrom's posts to "The Malstrom Thread", but this latest one I feel is important enough to have its own discussion.

I'm not copying the whole thing here (again, that's for the other thread), just the relevant part.

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Nintendo Press Conference 2010

The ‘Big Picture’ is that Nintendo is openly disrupting Sony’s move to 3d gaming. Why do you think Reggie talked so much about how bad ‘glasses’ are and movies and all showing the ‘evolution of 3d viewing’ with it culminating with the 3DS? Since when has Nintendo been interested in movies or movie history?

Nintendo has maintained control of the handheld market because it doesn’t let competitors get their hooks in yet. Nintendo’s business movements have all revolved around Sony. The Wii was made like it was and released at exactly the same time as the PlayStation 3 because Nintendo wanted to dethrone it. When Sony made the move to User Generated Content by buying that LittleBigPlanet company (that Reggie said Nintendo was also trying to buy), Nintendo showed off Wii Music at E3 2008 while Sony showed off LittleBigPlanet. Unfortunately for both of them, no one cares about User Generated Content. Now that Sony is moving to 3d with goggles and all, Nintendo is making a 3d handheld that requires no glasses. Before Sony makes their move, Nintendo has made them obsolete.

I did not expect the next disruption to be the handheld disrupting Sony’s console plans. Disruption is crappy products for crappy customers. From Sony’s point of view, the idea of a 3d handheld is a crappy product. Who would want to look at that for 3d movies? And the customers for that are not the big spending movie goers. The 8th Generation will likely be known as the 3d Display Generation as the 7th Generation will be known as the Motion Control Generation.

This is savage Nintendo ripping and clawing Sony’s heart out… Do not let their ‘aw shucks’ style of the executives and their happy themed games fool you. Nintendo is a very dangerous adversary in business.

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So do you agree or disagree this is a direct move against Sony?

I have to disagree. I watched Nintendo's post E3 interviews at e3.Nintendo.com. In one of the Interviews Mr. Iawata stated that they had being trying  3D on consoles for a while. They even mentioned that they tried adding 3D to the Gamecube. However, it required an LCD screen to be attached to the Gamecube. I thinking they meant that the LCD screen would have to be purchased seperately by the gamer and the cost would have limited the impact of 3D gaming.