Nintendo considering future 3D video recording 'update' for 3DS

It only makes sense.

Oh man. Never will so many wangs have been recorded in 3D...

Yay Even more ways for people to stalk each-other *Plays 3DS while recording someone*

This update will only reduce your battery life from 3hrs to a respectable 15min of operational time!

Where do I sign up?

Here's an idea, Nintendo. How about actually putting cameras on the 3DS that would make recording any video, much less 3D video, worth anyone's time?

You know, just a thought.

It's 2011 and you guys are still sporting 0.3megapixel cameras like they just came out. See it would be one thing if 1 or 2 megapixel cameras were not already dirt cheap, but they are; have been for years. So 0.3 megapixel is inexcusable.

But thanks for filling the 3DS full of outdated and antiquated tech. This way we know you guys are going to be printing money again for the next six years as you bring out newer versions of 3DS every year, each featuring some "NEW" features should have been in the original 3DS when it launched.

Sorry for the rant guys. The 3D part of 3DS looks awesome. But at $250 (JP¥25,000 and £249.99 GBP), one really expects more in the systems amenities . . . not to have Nintendo dangle those amenities on a stick like a carrot for the next six years, coaxing more money out of people every year just to continually upgrade the hardware. Who do they think they are? Apple?

Is Nintendo trying to get into the porn industry with that?

now we can record 5 mins of amateur 3D sexual intercourse with a gaming handheld

who said multi-functionality wasn't the future???

There's gonna be so many ways to misuse that. All the more reason that they should include it.

@goomba87

Whoa, way to plug in that you have a girlfriend. As anyone one with a girlfriend would already know about real 3D boobies.

...I don't have a girlfriend.

Does Nintendo like 3D or something?

@Nogirlfriendo

Fixed your name

Moan, moan, and more moan.

That's all I hear about the 3DS these days, even in the face of positive news like this. Just be glad that the 3DS actually exists.

@nesinvaders That price on The Hut (£249) was a placeholder and has now been removed. Count on me, it won't cost as much as a PS3.

@nesinvaders I think they have to be aggressive with phones edging in on its territory and let's face it do u think parents listen to the labeling on games if they did then 10 year olds wouldn't be play m rated games. nintendo is doing this because they know they can get away with it because really they have no competition in the handheld market and since the don't they r going to do whatever they want because they can.

Whine all you want people, I'll still buy 4 and sell 3 on ebay and make money off them...
>_>

@Shadow Hog TBH, I can take the damning effect that a triple-bummer may bring. Yet, the negative effect that may be brought by recent events may turn out to diminish once the handheld releases. Let me explain:

- Battery Life: We need to remember that the estimate assumes that the 3DS' full brightness and Wi-Fi are active. Brightness will be adjustable, and Ninty have also included a special Wi-Fi switch that is remeniscent of the PSP's.

- Region Locking: Never trust anything that a Nintendo employee has said. One said that the 3DS would come out before Christmas...

- Friend Codes: I can specifically understand the complaints found here, but there's a possibility that the FCs will all be unified across the system.

If they are talking software, cool but useless.

If they are already talking about a hardware change then gen 1 3DS can go eff itself...

Where was I when miis were announced for the 3DS?

Wow, when you randomly walk past people who left their 3DS on in their pocket, you can exchange data and gifts with other Nintendogs players! Awesome! Nintendo is always so creative and innov-

Wait isn't that just Bark Mode from Nintendogs for DS, released 5 years ago? :|

@nesinvaders

even if this handheld becomes the most expensive handheld Nintendo has produced, I think it's success is vastly assured:

3DS will launch on a solid market that Nintendo has built for 2 decades: handheld gaming. NDS is very solid and many many owners of a DS will move on to 3DS, I consider one myself

another step towards success is the launch date: 3D is the new thing, the new sensation, but you are forced to pay for a 3D tv, 3D glasses, and many people do not agree with using glasses: 3D is glass-less 3D, and this appeals most of people. Even if in the future, glass-less 3D tv's will come out (the technology is there, parallax barrier, but the costs are still too high), nintendo is already delivering it, and people like it, and people will buy it

another point, at least what makes me want to buy a 3DS is the support of DSi enhanced games, as I didn't buy a DSi, but I want to play pokemon B&W

and haven't you read the lineup of games being developed for 3DS?? it's a VERY solid line up, even if many games are only 3D remakes, but hey, if a FFVII HD remake was launched on PS3, i'd be the first in the line to buy it as well.

so I think 3DS success is guaranteed, at least in launch, and if it has a solid launch, 3rd parties will support it, and we'll see another 6 years of Nintendo dominating the handheld department

@DarkSonata

*** 3DS is glass-less 3D *** corrected

@MintagedVortex actually, I'm sure Friend Codes will be tied to console, and not per game, for example, GH: Warriors of Rock will create a Friends List based on who you have added on your Wii console, and you can add strangers on the fly, without the need of friends codes

so there are ways to make this work more efficiently, for example: shorter, alfanumeric codes (bit lenght can remain the same, but the number of characters is much lower, thus easier to share), to be able to add the codes on the fly (opening a sort of dashboard to add the 3DS code once and for all, ingame), and being able to add buddies for specific games without codes, just choosing the guy and adding him..

at least, i really hope nintendo has this in mind..

Might make up for the fact that 3DS retains friend codes

kinda...

Despite some of the 3DS's shortcomings, I have no doubt that the software will more than make up for it.

After all Nintendo handhelds have always won with there game line-ups rather than there hardware.