Launch of Nintendo 3DS is Most Important for the Company Since 2004

From DailyTech: The best selling portable game console on the market is the Nintendo DS line. The DS generates quite a bit of money for Nintendo and continues to be one of the most important platforms the company sells.

Nintendo is set to replace the DS with the new 3DS in its current fiscal year. Details on the new console are scant, but we do know at this point the device will need no glasses to provide the 3D effects for gamers. Rumors and speculation on the tech allowing the glasses-free 3D viewing is running rampant. New screen tech from Sharp that allows 3D sans glasses is rumored to possibly be the tech behind the 3DS.

BusinessWeek has interviewed Nintendo America President Reggie Fils-Aime about the 3DS. Fills-Aime said, "We have ideas of what we want to bring to the consumer that we can’t do with the current. The Nintendo 3DS for us is our next handheld platform."

Nintendo is expecting very big things from the 3DS and Fils-Aime says that the 3DS will be the biggest product launch for Nintendo since 2004 when the company moved from the Game Boy to the DS. The Nintendo executive was mum on any hard details for the 3DS and stated again that more information would be offered at E3 this summer.

Nintendo needs the 3DS right now. Its sales are slumping on the back of decreased demand for both the Wii and the DS along with a corresponding dip in demand for software. Nintendo predicts that sales of the DS will drop 3.8% to 30 million units with a decrease in software sales of 24% for the year ending on March 31.

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