P.S. pop out isn`t cheezy and the 3DS does it well.

Easiest way to check it out is to sit on the activity log start screen and watch the pencils float in and out of the screen.

*yawn* you made me sleepy

The only thing better than killing zombies is killing zombies in 3D. Resident Evil Mercenaries and Resident Evil Revelations are two very good reasons to get one. So I will lol

Sounds like you can't see 3d, something like 10% can't. When you close and open one eye can you see adifference? Can you tell which trees in the distance are closer? As for N64 having 3d, 3d graphics and stereoscopic 3d are 2 different things. I have a 3d plasma, a PS3 for stereoscopic 3d blu-rays and games, and a Fuji w3 stereoscopic 3d camera, and they are awesome! The Fuji has a 3d screen about the same size as the 3ds, and works well when you find the sweet spot. The thing is YOU CAN take 3d pictures with extreme pop out, so it's not a limitation of the hardware, it's the game designer's choice. Of coarse if I couldn't see in stereoscopic 3d I wouldn't buy anything 3d either! But I can, and will. Not sure about a 3ds though, I'n deffinately going to get a NGP, do I really need 2 portables, and my phone???

indeed .. when nature invented this stupid binocular vision it was just throwing out a gimmick and man so many predators jumped on that bandwagon *sigh* probably they were feeling more hardcore that way

No, but you're in the small minority

I've got the 3DS (read my review if you want!), and the 3D is amazing. Not the best feature, but it makes you 'feel' there, much more than I ever imagined

3D pops out just fine on the 3DS, if you have SSF4 and do Abel's hurricane throw then you'd see it. It depends on how much the devs want to pop it out.

amp316, if the 3D on the 3DS is your biggest complaint about the system then I really don't care about your opinion. For one, 3D is still optional on the system meaning you can turn it off if you feel like. Even if the 3D effects turned out completely bogus for me I would still get the system for all of its other features including analog controls, a better implementation of friend codes, the virtual console, and new games(paper mario, Rocket Slime, Resident Evil: Revilations, Professor Layton vs Ace Attoreny, Kingdom Hearts, Kid Icarus).

Ah well, one more 3D thing for me!

The "pop out" effect is simply a factor of the offset between points in the right and left eye images. It has nothing to do with limitations of the hardware.

Anyone who's actually experimented with the 3D camera should already know this.

Higher offset between foreground objects results in a stronger projection effect. Of course, this is simply the effect of human perception; no commercial display actually projects light to form images and frankly, anyone expecting formed light images to come shooting out of the 3DS display was either kidding themselves, or simply doesn't understand the science of how stereoscopic images work.

The downside of relying to heavily upon this "pop" effect where foreground objects are significantly offset between left and right fields is that they are taxing on the eyes. Try holding both index fingers about 4 cm apart and adjusting the focus of your eyes so that they appear to converge as a single finger. Maintaining that focus for extended periods of time does strain the eyes.

As for the whole cost issue; it really isn't. Nintendo only priced the 3DS at $250 because they determined that's what they could sell the device for to early adopters. The BOM is about $100 and the Sharp parallel barrier display adds about $10-15 to the unit cost; hardly anything worth making a big deal out of.

For that little amount, it doesn't matter whether the 3D effect is even well implemented by developers or used by the consumer. The success of the platform will still be dependent upon the eventual quality and quantity of the software library.

"Glasses Free 3D" may be the biggest marketing bullet for the 3DS, but it is pretty far from being the only feature that distinguishes it as a new platform.