Nintendo unveils 3D games console

By Claudine Beaumont, Technology Editor 1259PM GMT twenty-three Mar 2010

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The Nintendo 3DS will be the ultimate further to the company"s DS console line-up, and some-more sum of the handheld, 3D gaming device will be suggested at E3 in Jun Photo Nintendo

More sum about the console, the ultimate further to Nintendo"s DS line-up, will be given at E3, the annual video games expo that takes place in June.

Although the Japanese video games hulk is nonetheless to recover specific pricing or launch information, the association pronounced the 3DS would strike shops someday prior to subsequent March. Players will not need to wear special 3D eyeglasses to suffer 3D gaming on the 3DS, pronounced Nintendo.

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The hand-held games console will additionally be entirely backwards-compatible with Nintendo DS and DSi games. Nintendo has refused to give any some-more sum about the record concerned until E3 after this year.

Nintendo pronounced it had sole some-more than 125 million Nintendo DS units worldwide given the device initial went on sale in 2005. The range has quite appealed to women and comparison games, who have snapped up the consoles in sequence to fool around games such as Nintendogs and Dr Kawashima"s Brain Training.

All the big 3 console makers have voiced refreshes to their hardware line-ups this year. Microsoft has reliable that the Project Natal gaming system, that does afar with the need for a carry out pad, will be in shops by Christmas, whilst Sony"s Wii-like PlayStation Move motion-sensitive controller complement will be on sale by the autumn.

3D is moulding up to be one of the big trends of 2010, with a host of radio manufacturers together with Sony, LG, Panasonic and Samsung phenomenon 3D televisions for made at home use, whilst Sky"s dedicated 3D channel launches on Apr 3.