Game informer posted some interesting images of what may be the 3ds 
 
 http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/04/06/First-Nintendo-3DS-Images-Surface_3F00_.aspx
 

What do you think of the images?

I think it`s BS because there`s only one screen. 
 
3DS. Not 3OS

i think thats kind of ugly =/ I'm not superficial but it doesn't look like its super user-friendly.

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Is game informer fucking stupid?

I like the idea, but its execution sucks. 
 
 
How should you hold that thing and be able to reach any L- and R-like buttons?

First instinct is FAKE, especially when looking at the d-pad and buttons. Also doesn't glasses free 3D technology require the screen to be oriented a certain way to work? How would that work our with a screen that rotates? 
 
But I dunno.

" I think it`s BS because there`s only one screen.   
 
3DS. Not 3OS "

" I think it`s BS because there`s only one screen.   3DS. Not 3OS "

It looks fake but then so did those leaked pictures of the PS3 Slim and they turned out to be real in the end. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

But imagine holding the bottom of that piece of crap to press the buttons.  It would be a constant effort to maintain the device in its place and not lean backwards, with the weight being mostly in the top.

It looks kind of flimsy; like it would snap in half or something.

" @Tricks73r said:

" I think it`s BS because there`s only one screen.   3DS. Not 3OS "

   Anyway, I still call BS. "

" I know it emulates two screens, but it still only has one. I don't see why they'd advertise it as a dual-screen system just because it can emulate it. "

I sort of got the idea that 3DS retconned the acronym to mean 3 dimensional system.

Really ugly, and the screen looks like it would snap off that tiny control pad thing with little force.

nintendo wouldn't use that dirty grey with their white after the nice whites of the dsi. definitely a rookie design, it's just ugly, the sides look like the original gameboy.

Oh boy another hand held system with only 1 analog stick......   FAKE!!!!

" Oh boy another hand held system with only 1 analog stick......   FAKE!!!! "

I can see this being an mock up, obviously just to get the guts together in a shell so there is something real to show devs. It'll get made pretty down the road, and then made prettier again with new colours after a year and then have a few new functions added another year down the line with even more colours.....
 
I'm enjoying how a large number of people think of the name 3DS as 3 DS and not 3D S.

They are fake.
 
They are a mockup by a Japanese fan.
 
Game Informer is looking just as clueless as Kotaku and Gamespot when they reported the 3DS as a new DS.

" @agentboolen said:

" Oh boy another hand held system with only 1 analog stick......   FAKE!!!! "

The Playstation Move? "

I've seen photo shops in my time.

"...  Is game informer fucking stupid? "

Wait, wasn't that meant to be mockup?

" @MrKlorox said:

" @agentboolen said:

" Oh boy another hand held system with only 1 analog stick......   FAKE!!!! "

The Playstation Move? "

lol just because it hasn't improved doesn't mean it's fake...love how you can randomly draw conclusions. Also, looks fake as hell, but if it's not, the control pad shit is way too small, no way i can put 2 hands on that comfortably unless it turns out to be fucking huge. It already looks too big for me, i want to be able to put it into a pocket easily like the DS lite or the old SP.  I also have no idea why they wouldn't have gone with 2 analogs/nubs but as i said, doesn't necessarily mean its fake. "

At first I thought it was fake, but now I'm convinced it's the real deal. Sure, there's only one screen, but notices how it splits the screen in two, like if the screens on the DS didn't have a barrier to divide them. I'm intrigued. The buttons and everything look small as heck, though that's what Nintendo has been going for lately.

Stopped reading after the line "According to an obscure Japanese website – Munch Blog"...

That shit looks retarded, as Ryan would say.

What the hell is what I think. I don't care about the pictures or if they're real or not. Where's my new Wii leaks? God I hate handhelds and their constant evolution from Nintendo. Where's my fucking evolution for my Wii love?

" @DystopiaX said:

" @MrKlorox said:

" @agentboolen said:

" Oh boy another hand held system with only 1 analog stick......   FAKE!!!! "

The Playstation Move? "

lol just because it hasn't improved doesn't mean it's fake...love how you can randomly draw conclusions. Also, looks fake as hell, but if it's not, the control pad shit is way too small, no way i can put 2 hands on that comfortably unless it turns out to be fucking huge. It already looks too big for me, i want to be able to put it into a pocket easily like the DS lite or the old SP.  I also have no idea why they wouldn't have gone with 2 analogs/nubs but as i said, doesn't necessarily mean its fake. "

i'm just saying it because with how much crap sony has taken for making the PSP only 1 analog I would think no company would go that direction again.  Thats just one thing I find odd about this design. "

They're fake 3D renders, before anyone continues to get up in arms. That thing is about as ugly as the original DS and poorly designed.

I'm going to lol when Nintendo comes out with something that is even more stupid.

Wow, gameinformer is pretty dumb.

That's an ugly-ass system if real. 

They are renders. good ones but they are renders. Nintendo never actually confirmed DS stood for dual screen either (although it obviously does) so they can get away with having one screen and keeping the DS product name if they really wanted. in my opinion they should just call it the Nintendo Infinitron.....however ive thought every console should be called that from the beginning of time so... 
 
Also if this did turn out to be the real deal that means nintendo have gone and forgot all the sexy consumer electronics design skills they appear to have picked up over the last few years. Then again they need a reason for a 3DSlite ;-)

what? it doesn't even have 6 screens

" @DystopiaX:  Yea of course companies have made mistakes with designs, but when one makes a mistake usually others don't follow those mistakes expecting different out comes.  For the 3ds it sounds like that one slipped, we all know when companies workers go to bars and have a few drinks information gets out    ;) "

It would make sense that the 3D version of the DS would be a slider in some way, as most cell phones nowadays happen to be sliders.  This would be bringing the DS up to the current standards that most portable devices seem to be following, as well as offering it up in a color similar to the Wii brand - white. 
 
As for the actual mock-ups, though...I just don't think they are very real.  There's an image showing off a form of 3D on the Game Informer, but the problem is that most of the 3D tech without glasses can't really do angles like the picture shown on the link provided. 
 
In the end, though, I think it's an intriguing idea...but do we really want to see ass-ugly graphics from the DS in 3D?  lol

Looks dumb.

" ...  Is game informer fucking stupid? "

Looks fake. Might be real, but I doubt it.

DS doesn't mean anything. Just like KFC doesn't mean anything.

" DS doesn't mean anything. Just like KFC doesn't mean anything. "

" Looks dumb. "

" It would make sense that the 3D version of the DS would be a slider in some way, as most cell phones nowadays happen to be sliders.  This would be bringing the DS up to the current standards that most portable devices seem to be following, as well as offering it up in a color similar to the Wii brand - white.  As for the actual mock-ups, though...I just don't think they are very real.  There's an image showing off a form of 3D on the Game Informer, but the problem is that most of the 3D tech without glasses can't really do angles like the picture shown on the link provided.  In the end, though, I think it's an intriguing idea...but do we really want to see ass-ugly graphics from the DS in 3D?  lol "

" @agentboolen said:

" @DystopiaX:  Yea of course companies have made mistakes with designs, but when one makes a mistake usually others don't follow those mistakes expecting different out comes.  For the 3ds it sounds like that one slipped, we all know when companies workers go to bars and have a few drinks information gets out    ;) "

I highly doubt this is the 3DS, simply because it looks like a piece of shit- small ass controls, thick as console, lack of screen division. Anyway, you're acting like Sony believes the PSP's 1 analog is a mistake when clearly they don't; they haven't even mentioned that topic and it's been 5 FUCKING YEARS. While you and I think the lack of a 2nd nub is a mistake, don't act like Sony and Nintendo do 100% as well. "

Nope, not it, when Iwata has it in his hands and shows the money printing button then I'll believe it.