Duh, people are buying DS now with 3DS coming soon, that's life. I never buy these types of technolgy at first, I remember the $1000 blu-ray or the $10, 000 HD tv, thngs I would never get. I don't get 3D either, it's more of a gimmick anyway which has help many bad movies make decent money. People went in wave to SEE Avatar in 3D but failto realize behind the 3D is a very avarage movie to me.

But, the way these companies are pushing it, it's bound to be coming to the massess soon.

Lol. Very funny infact I cant see whats bad on this survey. Almost 70% dont want an 3D Tv yet and the problems are Price not much content and stupid glassess ?

That survey tells us that 20% are still interested in the Technology despite beeing expensive and not much stuff to watch in 3D. That looks pretty good to me. its always the same when a new technology comes people dont like it 10%-15% are buying it (which would equal a couple of Million TVs already) and then the price comes down there will be tons of content and the 40% will follow in the next years. then we have 40-50% adoption rate and people wont be able to choose anymore since its in all future Televisions if you want it or not.

The thing with the stupid glassess is just temporarily people will get used to it pretty fast only problem are people which have glassess already they will be able to buy professional shutterglassess soon which have the correct dioptrin. 

3D without glassess wont be available for a longer time. And when its available it will be so damn expensive that 99% people wont buy it especially because I bet in the beginnig the effect wont be as good as with the old 3D technology. And people will say:

"Why do I need some of those fancy glassless 3D Tvs if I have my old one which cost me just 400 Dollar with 5 Pair of glassess. I rather save 5000 Dollar and look stupid."

Just because people will get used to and accept the limitations of some products does not mean that they will get used to and accept the limitations of all products. Glasses based 3D has been around for decades and (to this day) people still think that they’re "lame" ... What makes you think that after several decades (and multiple revisions of 3D glasses) with people rejecting the concept of 3D glasses that they're suddenly going to accept them?

What I think is a reasonably fair estimate at this point in time is that 25% of households would probably consider buying a glasses-based 3DTV depending on the cost, quality and available content; and for 75% of households the dependence on 3D glasses makes it a non-starter. With a noticeable premium for 3DTVs and (basically) no 3D content there will (likely) be little reason to buy a 3DTV before 2015 (at the earliest).

Now, over the next 5 years exposure to glasses free 3D displays (like the 3DS and possibly some computer monitors) might make people less likely to accept the limitations of glasses based 3D displays; because they will not see them as a "necessary evil" and may come to the conclusion that glasses free displays in the living room are only a couple of years off.

Or you know they might think "that 3d is awesome let's buy 3d tv for living room"

If that's the case then one can make the same argument that having to upgrade both your audio and video equipment plus accessories and then having to accommodate the space for all of this is also a hassle that's been argued here and in the real world to take advantage of Blu-ray.  So you really don't know.  This whole thread is about trolling anyway because the original article has nothing to do with Nintendo, and if it's bad for SONY, then the same can be said for Samsung since they also make 3D TV's with glasses.

They might, but I wouldn't anticipate them buying a 3DTV before 2015; and by then an acceptable glasses-free 3DTV may be on the market in a reasonable price range.

There you do again with you blatant anti-SONY stand by displaying your bias double standard.  What you describe applies to virtually all successful new tech.  But you have to downplay it when it comes to SONY.  Typical.

Uh, you've got it backwards. The PSP's piracy make people buy the system, regardless of whether they need to buy the software or not. The software sales are irrelevant, since they don't need to buy the game, they just download it. Piracy increases the PSP (hardware) sales. I know people in America that bought the PSP only because they could download games on it.

The DS has its own piracy problems though, so this "advantage" is more or less cancelled out.

On topic, I'm glad people reject the glasses technology, not a big fan of it myself. I can't say I prefer the 3DS, since I've never seen it in action, but I do hope it looks better.

I don't put too much stock into surveys like this anymore, because of the skewing ability of the questions. On the glasses, it could have been phrased "Do you like wearing glasses to watch TV?" or "Are you willing to wear glasses to watch a show in 3D?" And price could be anything from "Do you think the price on 3DTVs is fair?" to "Would you pay the current price for a 3DTV?" to even "Are 3DTVs overpriced in your opinion?" Without knowing the wording of the question to determine the skew, it's kinda meaningless. It's also why when someone else does the same survey (for anything, not just TVs) and gets vastly different results. The truth will be between those 2 sets of data; averaging, while not ideal, would give you a better answer. As things are now, we have nothing to offset this data; I call the pool too small to conclude anything.

Considering Monster Hunter single handedly kept PSP from Dreamcasting in Japan, it's a bit humorous you'd attribute Mario & Pokemon exclusively as "saving" DS.  What about Brain Training, Animal Crossing, Nintendogs, Inazuma Eleven, Dragon Quest, Tomodachi Collection, Final Fantasy, Kirby, Rhythm Heaven or various other Japanese million sellers the platform's had?  How many Japanese million sellers has PSP seen outside Monster Hunter? ;)

DS and PSP piracy are almost equal btw.  The top 20 best selling games on each in Japan had around 20m pirated downloads according to that Famitsu study.  And "nowadays" DS is doubling PSP sales, after it's first Japanese pricedrop ever.