Nintendo 3DS uses DMP's PICA200 GPU

That looks sweet, can't wait for the 3DS to come out!

I'm not good with hardware stuff, but rumor is tha the Wii GPU is 243mhz.

Wonderful. As if I didn't already have enough reasons to buy a 3DS! (:

Important stuff to gleam from this video:

1) Full rendering of shadows is possible (i.e. compare what an N64 vs. Gamecube can do).
2) Actual lighting - look at the shoulder pads when they rotate, you'll notice a change in color.
3) Much much farther field of view than I've seen in any Nintendo DS game.

However considering that 3D requires double the frames, you'll probably never see this much detail though. But the 3D effect would probably make this much detail a bit nauseating.

Since when did Joystiq stop using English in its headlines?!

I'm not a tech-y dude, so I'ma creep outta here sloooowly, and continue to wait impatiently for the 3DS come out.

Nintendo, you sick son-of-a-bitch, I love you!

Funny bit: "pica" is a slang for penis in Brazil (and probably some other Portuguese-speaking countries, maybe Spanish-speaking countries too).
In some other countries, it's a slang for vagina.
(Yeah, be careful with traps)

I choose you, PIKA2oo's!

Yeah sure, that demo looks realistic enough.. for a PS3/XBOX game. The 3DS demos were nowhere close to that.

this chip was introduce in 2006 and is an OpenGL ES1.1 class chip with "some" OpenGL ES 2.0 features supported via private/proprietary functions. Read the following thread from August 2006.

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showthread.php?t=32326

PowerVR chips from "that" era were actually considered more powerful than this one. The new generation PowerVR chip in iphone4 is certainly going to be more powerful.

I remember, back when I was into mapmaking for H-L1, that poly counts measured in the thousands would make any average desktop PC bog down. Granted, I think that count was just polys from the map, but the characters and enemies were pretty low-poly too.

Now, our handheld systems can push 15 million polys per second.

I hope that the final 3DS games will use the anti-aliasing capabilities.
Unfortunately the demos apparently didn't - Kid Icarus looked as jaggy as any other DS title.

the wii's CPU reportedly clocked at 729 MHz and it's GPU reportedly clocked at 243 MHz

Ability to pull a sword out from both standing and kneeling positions on 3DS... CONFIRMED!!

someone needs to re-program samurai-robo, he apparently only knows 2-3 strikes and is stuck in an endless loop.

Optimists can keep in mind that the 3DS's resolution isn't nearly as high as this example. However anti-aliasing could make it more tolerable.

i didn't see any 3DS games look like this at E3.

woooooooow! What GREAT graphics! / sarcasm

PSP does 33 million polygons and a little less Pixels (wich means less resolution, but Go and 3000 has better resolution screen...

I don't know why everyone said OMFG GRAPHIX, when I look at the E3 traillers and instantly said that PSP still did better...

Why is nintendo saying those grafics are revolutionary and devs are "excited" i don't really know...

http://www.hardcoreware.net/graphics-specs-compare-iphone-3gs-to-psp-to-ds/

When I try to play this video, it freezes my browser, on Firefox AND Internet Explorer.

Clearly the 3DS is way more powerful than my crappy laptop.

@Ashkental, "iPhone 3GS Graphics Specs Compared to PSP and DS (on paper)" Maybe I'm illiterate, but if I didn't know any better, I'd swear that 3DS isn't mentioned once. 3GS, but not 3DS . Link fail.

@imeNrique:

Graphics chips always claim to offer full scene antialiasing - and they always can, too. But if you turn it on you lose significant quality in other areas. Given a choice between 'looks better than PSP, but no anti-aliasing' and 'looks worse than PSP, but anti-aliased', I suspect game developers will choose the latter. Kind of like how on PS3/60, the systems are capable of 1080p graphics - but only if the game has no more than 17 flat-shaded polygons onscreen at once, or at least looks like arse. Developers not only don't choose 1080p on those systems, they even don't go as high as 720p... Same kind of compromise.

With the higher-resolution screen (compared to original DS and to PSP) anti-aliasing shouldn't be as much of a problem - maybe. Sure it looks jaggy when I'm watching a trailer fullscreen on my 24" monitor. On a tiny 3" display? Probably not so much. I'll wait to see it in real life before judging.

Basically the summary is 'roughly in the same class as PSP and iPhone 3GS', plus 3D gimmick. Sounds good enough to me - I don't have a problem with PSP-level graphics. Although several of the tech demos look noticeably better than PSP, I think some people are being a bit optimistic in expecting further improvements as developers learn the technology - we do have to bear in mind that these are tech demos and although they're rendered realtime, that's not the same as running an actual game.

If anyone read the article somebody linked, the DS's polygon count was amusing - while other platforms all listed in the millions, DS - with no real graphics chip - uses the 'thousands' unit instead. :) Screw comparison to PSP, this is for DS owners, and it'll be a huge improvement there.

@me: 'Former', not latter. Sigh.