The 3DS hurts my eyes

[Ganoncrotch]

iamfanboy said:

I'm not trying to offend 3DS lovers, I really like the innovations the system brings but who tested this thing?  I have tried it at ebgames serveral times and everytime I crank up the 3D, my eyes literally go crossed and I feel a squeezing pressure on them.  My fiancee also experiences it but not to the degree that I do. 

Out of curiousity, has anyone else had this problem?

It's just a really nice tool for certain games but if you are considering buying a 3ds you should know there is an option in the system settings to disable 3d entirely on the console, this disables the slider even on the home menu, I did it not for lack of seeing the 3d effect but I played the majority of 5 shiny staring Mario 3d land in full 3d and my god that game looks amazing, nothing compares to feeling almost scared that bowsers rolling fireballs are going to shoot outta the screen and hit you BUT back to what I was saying, you need to hold it fairly still for the 3d to stay in perfect focus and doing this for 20+ hours of game absolutely gave me really bad neck cramps when I came away from the game, just had tensed up my neck too much to keep perfectly in focus while playing and yup strained it.

 

Should be worth noting btw, my missus has picked up a 3DSXL recently and the 3d effect on that is a whole lot easier to find the sweet spot/spots for and is far more forgiving on a little moving so if you really want 3d and you want to give your eyes a good break invest the extra money and XL it up. Orrrr do what I did, I believe it's in the parential settings of the system you just basically lock the 3d so kids can't use it and hurt their eyes while they develope, but it means whenever you press A on an App from the home menu (except old ds games and ambassador games) then you get 2 options pop up, A for 2d and B for 3d if you mash B you gotta tap in your 4 digit pw and you unlock 3d, if you dont want it just tap A again and you're away  in happy  2dland