Bad news for Sony, good News for Nintendo

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axt113 said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

ZenfoldorVGI said:

I strongly believe that these glasses 3DTVs will not be on the market in 3 years. Tech will allow for glasses free experience.

But it had better be at an affordable price as well, not to mention avoiding headaches.

It doesn't matter if it costs a million dollars and your first born child. Once consumers realize that there is the possibility of a future affordable device that would make their potential glasses-required 3DTV 2000 dollar purchase obsolete in a very real and final way, they will wait to upgrade, for years if necessary.

I mean really, would anyone buy a 3DTV that required glasses if Sony announced a new model that didn't require glasses and would launch next year at around 5000 dollars?

no, but they wouldn't buy the 5000 dollar TV either

They would wait. That's the point. They SHOULD wait. Early adoption in this instance is a terrible idea, considering that not only is this glasses-requiring 3D technology already obsolete, and unacceptably priced for said technology....it is obsolete in a way that causes it to potentially not function with the future content for which it was intended.

This is already a failed tech, and I guarntee you that even Sony are spending vast amounts of money on research to develop its precedessor as soon as humanly possible. They already have the tech for glassesless 3DTVs, they just need to refine it to a point where it can be acceptable in price and quality to the general public. The TVs sold today are not going to be the TVs of tomorrow. Glasses enabled 3D is not what we will be upgrading to as a mass market. If nothing else, the 3DS makes that abundantly clear.