Jeeze everybody, somebody could have messaged me on here or put a post on my wall telling me that mock-up I posted in the news was fake. I would've updated it sooner.

@thetonestarr, yeah I think that would be a better place for the controls if it uses the similar swivel-3-forms-format.

@everybody else, I'd still prefer a clamshell design. I'm too scared to use a PSP or an iPhone 'cuz I'd scratch the screen up.

@Vectorferret, I assume the 3DS would let you play older DS games horizontally or vertically. 99% of them would be played vertical, and you'd play Brain Age, Hotel Dusk, and the cookbooks and others horizontally. When the game asks you to hold it sideways you'd just rotate the whole screen instead. There's no way they're dropping Brain Age.

B-but Mister Roobangue, how would the screen handle puzzles which require the DS to be closed (partly or fully), as seen in Hotel Dusk and Phantom Hourglass?

Oh crap, forgot about those.  Damn.  Yeah either this design won't work or they'll drop support for those puzzles.  The DSi dropped the GBA slot so it can't play Guitar Hero or use the GBA expansion pak for more songs for Band Brothers.  That could happen...

i would just make some tweaks maybe i come up with my 3DS mock-up too ...we could make a contest what do you guys think ? it an be made on hand on paint in photoshop or even 3DS max who wants to participate ?

PS:I think that the 1 huge screen that you can move, looks so right ...i gonna work on mock-up this weekend if i have time ...

I dont think that one or two puzzles would make nintendo to hold her itself in pro of a better designe choice , i mean if they took out GBA support why not 2 puzzles supports also , they can program a twist on the screen as a close and open movement , or they my just insert a sleep button and than you press it and the magic is done .

It actually wouldn't be hard to deal with at all. One fix could possibly be to slide the screen. Another could be to have a "sleep" button on the side. Neither would be a perfect fix, but the functionality and possibilities of this form factor would likely be far better than trying to keep that minor feature in, honestly.

Another fix would be to simply change the mounting hardware. Many touchscreen laptops use a swivel-hinge that allows one to switch from laptop to tablet and back. If Nintendo could find a way to do that in a way that'd be STRONG - especially in the hands of children - AND simultaneously easy to slide - especially in the hands of children - then it'd easily be the best design possible.

@Kenryoku_Maxis

One thing you're missing is that it doesn't have to be a single screen on that swiveling section, anyways. One of the rumors going around about it said Nintendo supposedly leaked part of the description where they said the screens were so close to each other that they could function as one single unit. With a parallax filter over top, that's even easier to pull off because it can "mask" the pixel or two of space between the screens.

Of course, if that were true, they'd be using a rather high-quality screen to pull this off, and I'm not sure they'd do that. Could be wrong, though.

There are ways to fool the hardware into thinking a single screen is two, though. It's not hard at all. They simply have to have the video feed from the DS hardware go through separate hardware before sending it to the screen. The signal originates as two screens, but is combined via additional hardware into a single feed.

And as I said, the emulator thing I showed was just a gimmick I pulled and that I normally play it on a single screen. I swear, you say you read things, but by everything else you type up...