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So I've heard many-a-gaming website bemoaning the fact that they can't properly show images of 3DS games. It certainly sucks for them as well as us.


This is where I began to think that print media might have the upper hand. There is such a thing as paper printed 3d images, and it's not that expensive. Just stroll into your nearest greeting card store and you will see a whole section dedicated to 3d birthday cards that, I imagine, work in basically the same way as the 3DS.

What do you think about magazines using paper printed 3d to show some of the games from the 3DS? It might give them a serious edge on e-zines and gaming websites where 3d will mostly be impossible. I, for one, and eagerly awaiting the Nintendo Power issue that has a glorious 3d image of Kid Icarus on the cover.



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Your a smart cookie!

But I haven't seen 3D greeting cards, so what is this newfangled technology?



All hail the KING, Andrespetmonkey

hmm i dont know if the 3DS's 3D can be seen even in a paper format, I played it, its pretty much the same as in the movies, not sure a paper trick could do that



Too expensive.



I think it's more likely that Nintendo will expand the number of demo stations they offer, maybe try and get them towards the front of stores rather than the game section crammed into the back corners.



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Are you really comparing the 3DS to shitty holograms?



Crusty VGchartz old timer who sporadically returns & posts. Let's debate nebulous shit and expand our perpectives. Or whatever.

Just relax and let the print media die so that the trees can live (or be put to more productive use).



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blaydcor said:

Are you really comparing the 3DS to shitty holograms?


No, I'm talking about printed auto-stereoscopy. Go into your greeting card vendor and you will see what I'm talking about. It's actually very good quality 3d without glasses.



I miss the mid and late 1990s where every kid on my block had a subscription to Nintendo Power and PlayStation Magazine.

As for the 3DS pulling a lazarus for printed media, I am dead certain it will not because we are too accustomed to communicating electronically and the US has become really environmentally aware.

The biggest paper wasters I know of are government (local, state and Federal) and higher education, which is kind of ironic because higher education is a bastion of environmentalism, but if anyone else here besides me took a work study position during the undergraduate years, then you would know exactly what I mean. Professors have to have their handouts with 100 pages between them for a class of 20 to 30 students.



I can see where you're coming from, but I can imagine them being as expensive as hell, and as a result not selling