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Nintendo 3DS mockup seen on Japanese site

Nintendo has announced that they will be unveiling the next iteration of the DS line, the 3DS at the E3 event later this year, but today mockup pictures have shown up on a Japanese blog, and the design shown off by the site is interesting to say the least.

Their is one large touchscreen, which splits two simulated screen for DS backward compatibility, and games can be played vertically and horizontally.



The device can also take pictures, scan pictures, place 3D images on real backgrounds, "3D pointing," and more. 3D Pointing "tracks the movement of the user's finger, including distance, to manipulate an object on screen," says Kotaku.

Although the mockup is definitely a fake, it is still a pretty cool idea. Here are all the pictures posted:











Written by: Andre Yoskowitz @ 6 Apr 2010 20:27

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• 14 comments

• deluxe247

  This thing's going to suck unless those buttons come on the side of the touch screen or something. As is, I'm probably not going to buy it.

  6.4.2010 20:34 #1

• 21Q

  I don't care what it is. I want one. Looks cool to me.
  

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  6.4.2010 21:17 #2

• tiasweets

  SPAM removed

  7.4.2010 01:48 #3

• TBandit

  kinda like the iphone with a controller so they saw that a touch screen controller wasn't practical to use

  7.4.2010 05:00 #4

• NeoandGeo

  Why the hell did you clutter up the first page with pictures? One with the rest inside the news story would have sufficed.
  

  7.4.2010 10:11 #5

• DVDBack23

  Originally posted by NeoandGeo: Why the hell did you clutter up the first page with pictures? One with the rest inside the news story would have sufficed. V3 used to auto page break at a certain point, added the manual tag now. Thanks for the headsup!
  

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  7.4.2010 11:49 #6

• jos22

  looks more like a new psp than a ds
  

  7.4.2010 12:59 #7

• SmOkM

  Originally posted by deluxe247: This thing's going to suck unless those buttons come on the side of the touch screen or something. As is, I'm probably not going to buy it. its fake mate, you wont be buying that
  
  or is it....
  
  PS FTW
  

  7.4.2010 13:57 #8

• KillerBug

  "3D Pointing "tracks the movement of the user's finger, including distance, to manipulate an object on screen""
  
  Wonderful...because it was not hard enough to control a touchscreen already, let's track their finger before they even touch the screen! Oh, and it isn't the kind of 3D that pops out at you...at best, it is the kind of 3D that makes the appearance of depth...so when you try to touch something that is deeper into the image, you have to move your finger farther away...either that, or in order to touch things that are right in front of you, you will have to move your finger to the outer reaches of the finger monitor, and hold it there as you move 2 demensionaly.
  
  I suspect ebay will have plenty of these things before Xmas.

  8.4.2010 00:34 #9

• xaznboitx

  how many ds does nintendo need? so far I think this the best idea they had
  

  8.4.2010 00:38 #10

• KillerBug

  Originally posted by xaznboitx: how many ds does nintendo need? so far I think this the best idea they had LOL...don't you mean, "This is their least-bad idea"?

  8.4.2010 03:20 #11

• ZippyDSM

  Nice! now if it just pluged into the TV.....
  

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  8.4.2010 15:58 #12

• exTaich0u

  Reminds me of its great great great great..great grandfather the (and I mean THE) Gameboy. Seems like they're running out of ideas on design eh? <__<

  10.4.2010 04:59 #13

• ItsaMeaMario

  Originally posted by deluxe247: This thing's going to suck unless those buttons come on the side of the touch screen or something. As is, I'm probably not going to buy it.
  Are you illiterate. It says, right above the pictures "Although the mockup is definitely a fake, it is still a pretty cool idea. Here are all the pictures posted: "
  
  It's not the real thing...

  9.5.2010 00:18 #14