3D gaming

Nintendo announced today that it has sold over 4 million 3DS gaming consoles in the US - in less than a year (it was launched in March 2011).

Sony announced taht the PlayStation 3D monitor will be released on November 2nd in Japan, and November 13th worldwide. You can pre-order it now over at Amazon.com for $499. Sony's 3D monitor is a 24" active-shutter LED-backlit LCD that comes bundled with a pair of 3D glasses (charged via USB) and a PS3 game (MotorStorm Apocalypse). The monitor has two HTMI inputs, integrated speakers and subwoofer and quad speed frame sequential display technology. The monitor also supports SimulView - which allows two players to each see a different image on the screen.

This is great news as previously we thought that the release date will be December 31st.

LG announced it will deploy a new technology for it's Cinema range of 3D TVs, which will allow two players to each see a different 2D image. This is similar to Sony's SimulView (as used in their upcoming Pllaystation 3D monitor) - although LG are using passive 3D technology and not active one like Sony does.

The first TV to sport this new technology is LG's LW980T 3D TV.

Update: now Sony officially announced that the release date of the 3D monitor will be November 2nd in Japan and November 13th in the rest of the world.

Sony has set the release date for the PlayStation 3D monitor - December 31, 2011. You can pre-order it now over at Amazon.com for $499. Sony's 3D monitor is a 24" active-shutter LED-backlit LCD that comes bundled with a pair of 3D glasses (charged via USB) and a PS3 game (MotorStorm Apocalypse). The monitor has two HTMI inputs, integrated speakers and subwoofer and quad speed frame sequential display technology. The monitor also supports SimulView - which allows two players to each see a different image on the screen.

Nintendo announced that it will drop the price of the 3DS on August 12th - from $249 to $169. Other regions will also get a discount. If you already have a 3DS, Nintendo offers 10 free NES virtual games and 10 more Gamy Boy Advance virtual games.

Mr. Seikiro Tomita filed a lawsuit against Nintendo - for violating a patent (#7,417,664) related to the glasses-free 3D Display on the 3DS. The patent is titled "Stereoscopic image picking up and display system based upon optical axes cross-point information". Mr. Tomita used to work for Sony, but he filed this patent (and others) after leaving the company.

Nintendo announced they have sold 1 million 3DS consoles in Japan since the launch 13 weeks ago. Nintendo are disappointed by that and they say that the 3DS isn't living up to expectations. Just to compare, Sony's PSP sold a million units in seven weeks.