cool, so you're not foreced?
not like I will dessactivate it

I think disolitude may have the same feeling as me about this.

The fact it is optional means that there won't be any gameplay mechanics or overall game design based on the 3D feature because people may want to turn it off. Worst than that, it means that games instead of being made with the 3D effect from the ground up, will be 2D stuff then adapted to 3D, resulting on poor depth or awkward 3D. In the worst case scenario, there might games not supporting the 3D at all, since it is optional.

That's a kind of throwback for me as also.

I hope that there's another detail to make it worth purchasing then. But being it named 3DS, it makes sense that the main buzz about it is the 3D.

that is, unless, game devs make it a requirement to have 3D on to play their games rather than making it optional, depends on the game maker.

While people may disagree with me, I suspect that the 3DS will probably be more powerful than the Gamecube was in order to ensure that Nintendo can port Gamecube games while supporting stereoscopic 3D.

With that said, I don’t see how allowing players to turn off 3D output would translate into developers not supporting it as a feature. Most likely Nintendo will develop the 3DS so that the "driver" for the graphics system will handle the displaying of graphics in 3D as long as they were rendered in 3D. This works out so that most of the games would not see any benefit from not supporting 3D (performance can be identical because it could force rendering both views regardless of whether you are displaying in 3D or not); and the enabling/disabling of the feature can be handled in a uniform way across all games.

Or he is just trying to sound smart ...

And trust me he failed ^^

I dont think that its gonna be THAT optional , cuz i think nintendo will come up with some amazing 3d gameplay concepts , and well if turn it off, there will be no gameplay , what i think that this 3D turn off/on means is that depending of what are you doing , you cant turn it off, or depending of the moment of game or into the menus... well to keep it short , i think that this has more to with the tech aspects of the screen itself more than about the actual games.

Well duh.. how would I otherwise play my old DS games...

So basically it's like the DS touch screen being optional? Or Wii motion controls being optional?


WHODATHUNKIT?

lol wow

Great news, its good to see that companies are aware that not everyone gets turned on by 3D. Thats right Hollywood I'm looking at you!