[Rumor] Nintendo 3DS Going Widescreen?

[KingVamp]

Nintendo wouldn't want to make it into an ipad.

coming up next the 3ds-pad!

lol Was thinking the same thing.


widescreen would be cool.

It would look like this

Spoiler

 

[geoflcl]

Only 1 widescreen display?

Hmm. I dunno how in the world that would work. But Ninty never usually doesn't fail to impress, so I have faith.

Gee, looks like they've got a long ways to go before they come up with a decent design, eh?

 

[granville]

Someone has analyzed the photo and made some fairly logical speculation. Allow me to transcribe-

#1 — The most obvious item on this motherboard is the wide-screen screen. A departure from Nintendo’s almost exclusive 4:3 past, this could certainly be an interesting development. If we assume that the bottom screen is roughly the size of a DSi screen, then that makes the top screen very nearly the same size and dimensions as an iPhone screen. There are a lot of cables running off of the top screen and each one essentially would do something different. With the 3-4 connectors attached to the top screen, that could hint at something like touch input, backlight, and two display “angles” for the glasses-free 3D effect for the top screen.

#2 — The bottom screen seems to be around the size of a DSi (non-XL) screen.

#3 — Here we have the sensors for the standard button configuration, I guess Nintendo’s not innovating much on the button control front. 8 button sensors for the D-Pad and ABXY buttons are clearly visible as well as two below for start/select and two above for the LR shoulder buttons.

#4 — This dude is arguably as interesting and important as the wide-screen top screen revelation brought about by this image. From the looks of it in the image for their “3D Control Stick” Nintendo has decided to go for something much more akin to the “control nub” on the PSP systems.

#5 — The DS card slot. That is what this is in its entirety. This may hint at Nintendo using a similar size card for 3DS games (like with GameBoy/GameBoy Color games) or that a proper 3DS card slot is not included on the target motherboards because the games are fed into the system via SATA/serial connectors as opposed to retail cards anyways.

#6 — I originally thought that this might be the 3DS card slot, but upon closer inspection of the innards of current DSi systems, it turns out that this is just the SD card slot.

#7 — These dudes are just the speakers for the system. They look pretty well the same as current DSi speakers, perhaps slightly larger

#8 — This is the headphone jack most likely, nothing terribly exciting.

#9 — The battery for keeping the internal clock going should the 3DS battery get drained

All credit to this analysis goes to- http://gameusagi.com/?p=1158

 

[naglaro00]

Ninty, at least make both screens wide-screen >_>

 

[monkat]

Sorry if this sounds stupid but...this thing is huge! It looks to be the size of 3-4 DS lites!

Do they make it large for the FCC to look at it more easily?

 

[granville]

It's just a development prototype, not the finalized size and shape of course. Easy viewing and development i'd assume.

 

[waluigi3351]

 

[waluigi3351]

wow the BB code not working properly today or something?? I clearly inserted the youtube link inbetween the [] BB Code things and it still isn't working. Someone fix this for me plz.

Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhDgFlT1AII

 

[Jamstruth]

Fixed, you just need the code at the end of the link, not the whole URL.

Also, why is everybody going crazy over the widescreen? GBA had widescreen! Its not the first ever widescreen Ninty handheld!

 

[waluigi3351]

Thanks.

 

[Range-TE]

i'm more interested in the analog and graphics.... dont get me wrong though, im not a graphic snob or anything (heck i even call Wii graphics awesome)
but clearly graphical advances are what they're going with on this (the 3D thing)


btw, i forgot who said it, but a big name on nintendo said that their next console has to have an accelerometer.

so i'm looking for something that looks a bit like this

that one's 3 axis btw

 

[TM2-Megatron]

Ninty, at least make both screens wide-screen >_>

It seems unlikely the finished product would have two differently-sized screens. One of the early rumours mentioned that the space between the two screens on the 3DS was reduced to practically nothing, meaning they could be utilized as one big screen if a developer needed to. That effect wouldn't work so well, if the bottom screen had different dimensions.

Also, if that top screen is one of sharp's Parallax barrier touchscreens that recently went into production, I'm pretty sure they're only manufactured as 3.4 inch, 854x480 atm. Personally, I think both of the 3DS screens will be those.

 

[Painguy]

either fake or prototype. I hope fake cuz i cant see an Nvidia logo anywhere