i dont care about 3d gamin...all this mean is games will be even shorter

Those are the author's words, though. Thompson himself was attacking the expense of 3D "in the living room". That's definitely not talking about the 3DS.

See, but those AREN'T his words.  Those are the reporters' words.  HIS words expressly talk about the living room.  Not handhelds.  

It's a clumsily written piece.  Look at the quote and show me anything that says anything or implies anything about handhelds.  He's talking about the mass-market threshold of TV's.  

Level with me Selnor:

If I was to review your past opinions on Nintendo's past three E3 conferences, what would you be saying?  Keep in mind that they're archived...

Yeah he's right 3D isn't going to take off this gen, it might take another gen or 2 until people have 3DTV's.

Lol Kinect is gonna fail too though. Its way too expensive and it looks pretty stupid to me. I don't think you can make a really fun game with just motion and no buttons or anything. It might be fun for lame party games but you're not gonna have a game like Halo run 100% on Kinect.

Keep in mind the search function is broken!

Edit: Also you have to give people room for growth/changing opinions. If he criticised Nintendo in the past it doesn't mean he couldn't have learnt from that and you ought to give him the benefit of the doubt.

yes it is inevitable, but just like microsoft said sometime later that they will consider 3D for home consoles once 30% of the people have 3D tv's.  To me this is a smart business move.  They wait till it is widely adapted, and not be like Sony who is trying to force the adaption to happen sooner.

You realize the difference in the companies requires this?  Sony (and Samsung, etc) need to push the hardware, that's what they do.

If they weren't there wouldn't ever be any adoption for Nintendo/MS to then take afvantage of.

Sony and the other electronic providers (which obviously excludes MS and Nintendo as they are niche providers vs the general consumer electronics firms) will always be pushing the new tech because they have to.

no..no..no.do not buy into that Trite:

the truth of the matter

look the problem is you an many other's are looking at it from just the P3 FORWARD..The Blu-Ray format was on the Market before the PS3 was even made!

hell it was even a recordable burning format right off the bat in 2003! that's 3 year's before Sony even released the PS3

22 of the largest Electronic's firm's including every one of the movie studio's from 2002 to 2004 all supported Blu-Ray before HD DVD was even ready!

Blu-Ray already had a CE electronic product in japan in early 2003, and SONY was not even the only one.. and Pansonic soon followed with Blu-Ray devices of their own in 2004.

HD DVD was only there to put FUD in the eye's of the consumer..Blu-Ray would have made it with or without the PS3

the reason why is simple:

only Toshiba made HD DVD optical drives!

the rest produced Blu-Ray optical drives.

from 2001 on Blu-ray founder's was already setting up the licences 2 year's before HDDVD WAS EVEN READY.

Yes the PS3 helped but the real problem for HD DVD was it was just too late..without microsoft Toshiba may not have even tried to move even forward with HD DVD Toshiba being the only one to produce HD DVD was pretty much all she wrote.

the PS3 just help speed it along. but we were far from being used. the format worked, it was on the market 3 year's for consumer purchase before HD DVD was even released. without Microsoft I doubt very much Toshiba would have even gone forward.

As for CHDVD like Blu-Ray both was submitted to the CHINA'S govt. and both were excepted.

HD DVD was just that a format to split the market because Microsoft had to try..!

being there first doesn't change the fact that blu ray was starting to loose when HD-DVD came around.

If not for the PS3 jump starting it, all signs were pointing to HD-DVD winning.

Who was there first again doesn't mean shit