Well if a Gamecube is capable of producing 3D images, then why doesn't nintendo just make a gaming Holo-cube projector already?
Nintendo Built 3D Into the Gamecube
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Yeah... It was called 3D Dinosaur Adventure... I said that...thatstheguy said:
What do you remember about it? I still remember the "tours" that you took through the 3 different parks, the Triassic one, the Jurassic one (uncreatively called Jurassic Park), and the Cretaceous one (called Cretaceous Corner). I also recall some of the videos and that there was a game on it that I no longer remember.
Am I the only one who read a decent portion of the article thinking it was some sort of joke, with Nintendo poking fun at competitors for focusing so much on graphics and at themselves for getting low Gamecube sales? Like, "I know the 3D graphics on PS3 seem interesting, but we've actually had 3D graphics since Gamecube, though most didn't notice."
It got considerably less amusing when I finally realized what they were talking about.
It got considerably less amusing when I finally realized what they were talking about.
Interesting. Could have been cool to see some 3D games on the Gamecube, I don't know why that flopped. It had, has, some awesome games. And the controller was different, but I found it worked quite well after you got used to it.
I'm gonna say I agree with Iwata. I'm really, seriously not excited for NATAL being that it only lends itself to glorified $60 flash games, and I don't want my games to display in 3D, advantageous as it might be for a platformer to feature depth perception. It's just too disorienting having things leave the edge of the screen. It'd give me such a horrible headache.
As a matter of fact, I DO! My little sister was terrified of it, and once when she was sleeping on the couch in the same room the PC was in, we turned it on for a friend. About 10 minutes later, she hopped off the couch and ran upstairs terrified because she realized what we were doing. She couldn't even see the screen from her vantage point.AvsJoe said:
Hmm that makes sense. Maybe they'll do it when people get living rooms big enough for Uber-HD tvs. (See one of the old ENN episodesHuCast said:
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It was just dinosaurs period. I remember once around the same time that she was watching some princess video from the library, but got called away for something so she paused it and left. I then put in the tape for Jurassic Park right when the lawyer gets eaten by the t-rex. When she came back, she pressed play and instead of happy princesses, she got a screen full of a t-rex. I was laughing so hard I can't even remember her reaction. I'm pretty sure it was far less traumatized than when she was sleeping and we were just minding our own business.AvsJoe said:
She's almost 19 now and away at college. Damn, time flies. If I wanted to pull the same stunts though, I could. She HATES Pennywise the Clown from It.
Sure, 3-D and motion controls are gimmicky now, but in the future, when Touchscreen TV's and Glove controlled games and regular 3-D polygonal games are so abundant and are considered gimmicks, the world will look back on 3-D and motion controls and say "Someone needs to make games like that!" While independent companies make these kinds of games that are either poor or pushed under the shelves.
Personally, I would be much more impressed if they made movies and games in 5-D, but when they just make it mimick the dimensions all around us it is like reaching par with reality, which isn't very impressive to be honest.will1182 said:
OT: I prefer the 3-D-ish games that we have now to silly, glasses-wearing, 3-D creations of evil.
That was pretty cruel but I can't say I haven't done the same to my little sister. She's deathly afraid of tornadoes thanks to a similar prank I pulled involving the movie Twister. To this day I still occasionally freak her out by mimicking the sounds of a cyclone during a storm.Signa said:
Still haven't seen It. I've been meaning to but I never see the DVD under $10. How was it?
But if Nintendo already saw the launch and demise of a 3D system (the Virutal Boy, a system I wish I'd hung on to) it's curious to hear they considered it again. Sure, it'd look nicer than the red-tinted Viewmaster-like graphics the VB was capable of but it'd still need to be done with stereo goggles/glasses which have never really caught on despite the continual push for "VR" technology for as long as I've had a PC (early 90's...unless one counts my C64 in the mid-80's), even longer when one remembers the 3D goggles being designed for the GCE Vectrex [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex].
As a gimmick I find 3D gaming interesting, but as a necessary peripheral I'd have to pass.
As a gimmick I find 3D gaming interesting, but as a necessary peripheral I'd have to pass.
Next time you see a Gamecube, flip it over. It is all full of goodies underneath it. Exapnsion ports and etc. Many, many possible peripherals. It's really weird, but N64 has stuff like it as well. And the Wii has USB and SD ports. For what reasons? I don't know. Nintendo is CRAZY [or crazy awesome!], we'll leave it at that.
Same things were said about optical disc based games, full motion video, polygonal 3D, and so on. The same kind of shortsighted gamers and critics have decried every major development in gaming history.Volafortis said:
This poster is a master in the arts of Necromancy.UberNoodle said:
OT: 3D may eventually become viable once the technology actually does what you'd want it to do, but as it is, it's more immersion breaking than anything else. Motion Control, on the other hand, has very limited application, and in those few situation where it could be meaningfully applied, they'd be great, but most games that have them simply tack it on to say they have them, making it a gimmick.