It would be nice, but battery life would decrease a lot... That's what I don't like about it.

damn, beat me to the punch on that.

Doubt this is true, but it raises hype for E3 considerably.

Doubt it, I'm predicting halfway between GC and Wii graphics.  Which will be awesome enough for me.

I Call BULLSHIT. IGN is getting false information from somewhere. It is impossible for the 3DS to be more powerful than the Wii, maintain it as a portable and be affordable.

I know there is a general habit of not listening to people who make common sense, but for once listen to reason and something that actually makes sense.

There reasoning on 3DS power comes from being stupid morons. The standard DS 3d game aims to be 30fps so let's run with that. IGN assumed 1 thing correct. You need twice the rendering power. Essentially the 3ds needs to render at 60fps to maintain 30fps.

The Stupidity. IGN is assuming that minimal double the power is required right across the board. This is incorrect. This assumption comes from the basis that rendering requires recalculating the vectors and texturing for both the left and right frame. This is true. They are then assuming that this will requiring twice the CPU. This is wrong. They are assuming twice the graphical chip. This is wrong. They are assuming Twice the main ram. This is WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG.

A 3d world only needs a single CPU calculation to determine current world values. Minus the Camera position.In the software end there will be TWO/2 Cameras in the world for rendering purposes. Rendering is not vector calculations. Once the world is calculated. 2 Parallel Graphical Chips will Render the world; one for each Camera. This will generate the 3D effect. This means that the 3DS does NOT NEED a single better graphical chip. Remember that the cost curve for more power into a single chip becomes exponentially expensive. I believe that we have already seen a Patent with 2/TWO 3d chips in a DS.

That means that a GBA could run 3D as long as it had 2 Parallel graphical processing chips. You heard me I said GBA. The 3D effect is not generated from the CPU it's from 2 graphical chips. This means that the 3DS does not need to be considerlly more powerful. It could be a DSi with a slapped in extra Graphical Unit(chip gfx mem). That's it. No exponential cost and 3d will be achieved.

Finally. The DSi is double the power of the DS. Though notice how there are no DSi games that make use of it? Also there was a prior poly limit to the hardware render even though developers could have pushed it past if allowed.

3DS will be a tweaked DSi with maybe a smidge more power, but importantly it will have an extra Graphical Unit for parallel graphical processing.

Most laptops have better GPU than the wii so it's not impossible.  Ps3 and X360 GPU are pretty much out of date today (let along Wii weak gpu). You can easily buy a PC graphic card under $100  that's more powerful the HD console.

Higher resolution of course is not the only thing that work a GPU hard.

I think SQUARE ENIX might be the only one with Kingdom Hearts, that pushed this handheld visual capacity.

I dont think  3DS is going to do anything special other then 3D rendering. Though thats mabe all Nintendo really needs it to do, to push 3rd parrty to try and make somthing visualy impressive with its Damned handheld. Thats a side of the DS thats missing.

Like jay mentioned it can do it already, but no one is making any. If 3DS succeds to push 3rd party to make these games then, it will finally have taped into that potential.

Yeah and it will come with an attached power plant instead of a battery.

it will cost 600$ if this is true

If this is so, then one of my predictions regarding the 3DS (the one least likely to happen) would be close to being true then:

http://goes-to-11.blogspot.com/2010/04/predictions-on-nintendo-3ds-and-next.html

Considering the system will likely have a smaller screen, it is entirely possible to get near the ballpark of the 360 and PS3, and not require that much power.  My prediction was based on the belief that the 3DS could get games near the level of the PS3 and 360, in the development mix.  This means that it gets whatever 3rd party stuff is for the PS3 and 360, and comparable.  The 3DS is meant to go after the PS3 and 360 crowd and not just be an upgrade of the DS system.  It is Nintendo on the offensive.  Then, I was taking it to be the software for the 3DS would then also end up working on the next Nintendo home console.