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@KillaChaos

Hahaha, took a few days, but your point has been made very VERY moot. And ultimately the original commenter has been partially vindicated in losing faith in id's ideals in open and widespread platform support.

I'd love to know how I offended somebody. If anyone can enlighten me I'd be much obliged.

"more powerful than a Nintendo DS and PSP combined,"

Seen as the PSP is about 10 times as powerful ,that's a fairly pointless statement. It would be more direct to say "it's at least slightly more powerful than a PSP".

Reminds me of Prop-Cycle. That's totally worth a comeback.

@Rather Dashing

Hah, yes you're quite right and hilariously, it was Nintendo leading the way on the consumer front wayback on the NES. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Famicom_3d_system.jpg

Hopefully the 3DS will prod some manufacturers more this time round.

@ buoy

Eventually I see the influence of 3D extending well beyond film alone. As autostereoscopic displays and capture devices become commonplace, I expect all photographs will be 3D. Computer vision analysis will composite all our old photos into 3D environments, new equipment will capture spatially as standard, and every surface will be a portal into an old world. Sculptures and trinkets will become digital, and there won't be a place or time in our future history that we can't revisit or reimagine. It'll be great. But there's a bunch of technologies along the way that haven't been developed - (my money's on eye-tracking microlens arrays over each pixel) and active or even polarised glasses ain't it. So yeah, a few years yet, but the 3DS is the first major step along the hardware path.

I'm a super huge proponent of 3D and think it's absolutely the inevitable future - nearish future even. But even I am totally with you on this. Every single active shutter solution is a joke, and frankly anything glasses based is. They want to charge how much money for their new 3D tvs and all it does is the same high frame-rate LCD trickery they'd been selling us for years? Jokers

3DS day one.
3D glasses TVs - never bub.

Because even without 3D it's a massive leap in power! Otherwise the SNES is the same as the NES, the PS2 is the same as the PS1, and the GBA is the same as the original Gameboy. But even then 3D alone should qualify it as a whole new generation, as it transforms the experience, just as the Wii does.

How in any way is this not a new generation? Has there ever been a new system before that so clearly represented a genrational leap over its predecessor?

@Grusic

Was about to say exactly that, and they're on their third model.

@windywoo

Haha, yes, funny. But BBC's iplayer certainly has been a boon in many a household.

@ all

Yes, I expected as much. I did state they've obviously made a lot of money. I also stated that 3 million of anything appears to be a lot. I didn't even attach any negative connotations in regard to Apple or the product itself. But without a frame of reference what does that even mean. Andrex sold a billion sheets of toilet paper yesterday. I shed a trillion cells. Impressive numbers, I guess, but compared to what? I thought comparing in consumer electronics terms would be fair, and in that regard it seems pretty good. But certainly nothing out there in crazyville level sales, particularly given the press intensity, and certainly not so much to warrant the repeated declarations from all corners of the globe. People said they expected this product to bomb, but really, was that ever a reasonable expectation for this particular device and its prenatal notoriety? I'd answer back, that when your 'cult' numbers a hundred million, then that's impressive. The iOS line's made it. Two of the Playstations have made it. The Nintendo DS has made it. Ipad's just at the beginning. Quarterly announcements of successfully meeting or exceeding expectations are sufficient.