November Release for 3DS?

by **Administrator** Sat Oct 09, 2010 8:06 pm

Nintendo's 3DS could be hitting Japanese shelves as soon as this November if tweets from a peripheral manufacturer are correct.

"On November 20, eleven 3DS products that we designed will go on sale all at once," said Takahiro Amano, a man claiming to be an employee at peripheral company KeysFactory in a tweet picked up by Kotaku, "People who are buying the 3DS, buy it at the same time! There will be more details on our home page."

Nintendo has already said it will be announcing the launch details of the 3DS on September 29, and have previously said it'll be available before March 2011.

Nintendo revealed that the 3DS will land on shelves in Japan for 25,000 yen. Price in the US, Europe, and Australia have not been revealed.

Samurai Warrior 3DS:

Samurai Warrior 3DS:

Tales of the Abyss 3DS:

Tales of the Abyss 3DS:

Tales of the Abyss 3DS:

Street Fighter 3DS:

Street Fighter 3DS:

Street Fighter 3DS:

Legend of Zelda 3DS:

Legend of Zelda 3DS:

Resident Evil : Revelations 3DS:

Resident Evil : Revelations 3DS:

Resident Evil : Revelations 3DS:

Nintendo wrote:Nintendo has not revealed any specs for the 3DS system beyond the basics and size/shape, but expect it to well surpass the Nintendo DS in visual and processor capabilities. To provide stereoscopic 3D effects the system must have the ability to render each game field twice, one for each of the player's eyes, a technique that will require significant horsepower to produce.

Japanese company Digital Media Professional (DMP) revealed that it is the company that's providing the graphics processor for the 3DS. The system is using the PICA200 graphics core, a chip designed for use in mobile phones, amusement machines, and game consoles. The architecture uses DMP's proprietary "Maestro Technology" to achieve high quality visuals with minimal power dissipation.

Several developers that have experienced 3DS in its current form have reported, off the record, that it has processing capabilities that exceed the Nintendo Wii, and with 3D shaders they can make games that look close to current generation visuals on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on the lower resolution screens.

Off the record information from developers working on the system have indicated that Nintendo 3DS will pack not one, but two 266MHz ARM11 CPUs, along with a 133MHz GPU, 4MBs of dedicated VRAM, 64MBs of RAM, and 1.5GBs of flash storage.

The 3DS features a 3.5 inch widescreen display, capable of resolutions of 400 pixels wide by 240 pixels wide -- the system renders a display at 800 pixels by 240 pixels, but the display resolution is cut in half to provide the 3D effect.