No, people won't "get used to it", they'll just wait until glasses free tech comes along.  Not everyone is great big tech crackwhores like us gamers are.  Telling someone they need a $150-$200 set of glasses that are LOCKED TO MANUFACTURER for every viewer is not something people will just accept or get used to. 

Again, the only reason gamers get treated with such contempt is because they let it happen -- non-enthusiasts will just tell manufacturers to go fuck themselves until they figure out how to do it without glasses. 

Especially 1-2 years after buying a brand new shiny HDTV.

The price will go down fast just like everything else tech-related.

PSP and DS nowdays outsell each other week on week

its just that because of the PSP piracy the software sales that boost PSP first week go down after few weeks.also Nitendo has been dominant in handheld and has pokemon,mario to save it

3D technology is still evolving so I don't think it is wise to rush out and buy a 3D tv just yet. Let the big corporations make the expensive mistakes.

Nintendo does not need to be in the TV business to affect the TV business.

The 3DS is what economists call a "disruptive technology" meaning it is a technology that affects their competitor's other areas of business such as Sony's multi-thousand dollar 3D television.

Come 2011, when Sony is pushing 3D games on the Move to get consumers to buy their 3D televisions, consumers will see a $200-300 3D glass free technology via Nintendo 3DS and start to ask why is Sony asking me to drop $3k or more for a 3D television requiring and extra $100-200 for 3D glasses when my son/daughter has a 3D handheld that does not require and expensive television and glasses?

This is the pickle Sony will be in and it is a hard one considering all the R&D, production and marketing costs they have accumulated to create their 3D televisions.

the thing is that not all 3D TVs require glasses. Even two of Sony's 3D TVs dont require glasses at all. They are just way the freak more expensive. Sony, and Samsung, took the wrong route with their 3D making their entry models require glasses. Panasonic has passive-3D TVs that dont require glasses, so why cant these two companies forget the glasses? because the TVs that need the glasses are cheaper to produce and they can make tons of profit off the the glasses.

Seriously, 30 per cent is not bad, you could almost say that it is good.

Anyway, surveys are not representative for the whole population, but if it was... well... you can figure out how much 30 per cent of the japanese population (who are able to buy TVs, of course) is.

That's exactly what I thought. But what baffled me the most even more is the fact that only 57% said that prices are too high. Current prices for 3DTVs are ridiculously high, I would have expected a value > 90% for that question.

And when it comes to the question about 3D glasses, it would be very interesting to know the exact phrasing. For example a question like "Would it bother you having to wear glasses for watching 3D on a 3DTV?" does not say much. I for instance do not like the idea of having to wear glasses for watching 3D either, but it does not bother me so much that I would not buy a 3DTV with glasses if the price is right. Nobody likes wearing 3D glasses, but the tremendous success of 3D movies in cinemas clearly shows that people are more than willing to wear 3D glasses and even pay more money to enjoy 3D.

I understand that the fact the recently introduced 3DS does not require them makes many gamers believe that people will not accept 3DTVs that require glasses because they see that 3D without glasses is possible. But that's wrong, as word will spread that what works for a small mobile device is not necessarily the best solution for a TV or cinema.

Yes, glasses-free 3DTVs already exist. But even though they seem obviously superior they won't be successful for at least a decade. It's not just that they are extremely expensive (> 10.000$), they also have serious disadvantages when compared to 3DTVs with glasses. Displays like the one in the 3DS only work if the viewer is exactly in front of them. There is technology that makes it possible to see the 3D effect from more than one position, but that comes at the cost of reduced resolution. All these disadvantages have already led Philips to give up on glasses-free 3DTVs for at least a couple of years.

give it a few years, technology will get better, standards will develope and improve, and the price will drop. next consoles will prbly use 3d as a standard