yea, I've known about that for a while. The problem is the same reason they didn't go HD this generation. The TV adoption rate is too low, and red/blue glasses suck. The 3DS has a huge benefit in 100% adoption rate no matter what.

Again, as stated earlier, Nintendo didn't copy Sony, nor the other way around. The reality is 3D for PCs has been pushing the envelope the longest and is the only one that currently exists. I mean heck Sega had stereoscopic 3D on the master system, but that flopped horribly. However, Nintendo might be the first to get a portable 3D without glasses device on the market.

This is awesome news, I hate 3D in the cinemas because it requires me to wear two pairs of glasses at once (not comfortable at all) so 3D without glasses sounds awesome, some good launch titles (pokemon, ff remake or tactics game) and I'm sold

So yeah this is gonna cost at least $199
but I am thinking it is going to cost $249

That was one of my favourite games on the speccy. It wasn't 3d like we are talking about. Only about 2 frames a second and those were just static screens it was not running in a 3d engine so back then "3d" was a gimmick. But when you turned round and that t-rex was there you still shat yourself.

Was the master systems 3d glasses out before the virtual boy?

There is no future in 3D, like HD, its largely useless and will fail (after rendering everyone bankrupt).

No way.   It won't be over $200, that's insane for a handheld.  See: PSP Go.

Except that many people said there's no way there'll be a new platform announced this year, DS is still printing money, new handheld is a long ways away, etc. 

$199 is max, but even that is unlikely as the Wii Occupies that slot, they'll probably make it $180

  True, it was surprising, maybe Nintendo knows more about Sony's plans than we do (Corporate espionage?) and wants to get the drop on them