Nintendo 3DS

The soon to be released 3DS is another world first for Nintendo. the 3DS upper screen is stereoscopic which means you can view it in 3D without having to wear glasses!

There is a 3D adjustment slider on the side of the unit which allows you to change the intensity of the 3D effect to your taste. You can even turn it off completely. All Nintendo 3DS games can be played in 2D with no problems.

Much like many modern mobile phones the 3DS has built in gyroscopic sensors so you can use movement to provide control in certain games.

Not only is there a 3D display but there are two cameras on the rear of the 3DS which allow you to take 3D pictures!

The 3DS takes mobile gaming to a new level and is sure to put Nintendo back on top for a while to come.

Nintendo DSi

Released in Japan in November 2008 and now available in the UK.

So what makes it different from the DS Lite?

Nintendo DSi camera

The first thing that you will notice about the new DSi is that there is a camera on the lid.

When you open it up you will find another camera inside.

As cameras go they are nothing to write home about with 0.3 megapixels providing VGA resolution of 640×480 (don’t believe the many reports of a 3 megapixel camera, it isn’t!).

To quote from the Nintendo press release

“the DSi Camera software includes 11 types of special camera lenses. This means DSi can take pictures by utilizing a variety of special effects on a real-time basis. You can change the whole picture to black and white, colour the portions you touch or exchange the existing colour with a new one on the area you touch, make a composite picture using preinstalled frames or make the frames for yourselves, draw a variety of graffiti on the pictures, use the technology to recognize human faces and put glasses and moustaches on them, combine two people’s faces with different portions of one’s features, and confirm to what degree two faces are resembling by utilizing the face-recognition engine. These functions can be enjoyed with the unique Nintendo user interfaces that you are familiar with.”

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