I'm not buying this 3D thing

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alfredofroylan said:

I've seen this before.

Whether or not you fully agree, Nintendo DS can come off as gimmicky, but Sony's commentary is fairly strange. "With the DS, it's fair to say that Nintendo stepped out of the technical race and went for a feature differentiation with the touch screen," Harrison says. "But I fear that it won't have a lasting impact beyond that of a gimmick - so the long-lasting appeal of the platform is at peril as a direct result of that."

That's not even the worst of them, though. When it comes to discussing target audiences, it becomes painfully obvious why Harrison doesn't believe Nintendo is competition. "Nintendo knows its target audience, because it has really narrowed that down; and it's pretty much defined by a boy or girl's ability to admire Pokemon," he says.

http://www.1up.com/news/sony-calls-gimmick

Some people can see 3D, some people can't see 3D, some people like touch interface, some people hate touch interface, some people is obsesed with HD graphics, some people can't see the difference between HD and normal resolution. Life goes on, carry on.

But touch screen and motion controls change the way the game is played (they normally make it easier to play). But what does 3D change in the game? The way you see doesn't make the game better (or worse), so Nintendo wasting a good 120$ on that 3D screen is just burning money for something very few people will care about.