At E3, Nintendo will be announcing new hardware, the Nintendo 3DS.

Nintendo describes the portable as allowing games to be "enjoyed with 3D effects without the need for any special glasses". According to Nintendo, the product will go on sale between April 2010 and March 2011.

The Nintendo 3DS will succeeded the Nintendo DS series and will have backward compatibility for Nintendo DS and DSi games.

In early January, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata gave an interview with Japan's second largest newspaper The Asahi Shimbun in which he apparently said the Nintendo DS successor will have "highly detailed graphics, and it will be necessary to have a sensor with the ability to read the movements of people playing".

Nintendo of America later told Kotaku that the Asahi Shimbun had "misinterpreted" Iwata's remarks. "Mr. Iwata did not make any comments regarding the functions of Nintendo's future hardware systems," Charlie Scibetta, Nintendo of America's senior director of corporate communications told Kotaku. "The answer to the reporter's question was misinterpreted."

The Asahi Shimbun stands by its reporting and issued a statement to Kotaku Japan that read: "The article quoted Nintendo President Satoru Iwata's comment accurately." The actual quote in the article is a fragment of a longer sentence.

At a Nintendo quarterly Q&A, the exec addressed the issue with the Asahi Shimbun, asserting that the reporter stated, "The graphics for the next DS will be highly detailed and it will contain a motion sensor, right?" Iwata claims he then replied, "Those things are naturally being required. But do you think it would sell with just that?" Iwata emphasized that this last part was left completely out.

It appears that the extra element Nintendo believed was necessary to really sell the DS successor is 3D.

Regarding 3D, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has previously stated that Nintendo would need to look into the "possible health effects" of playing video games in 3D for prolonged periods of time.

I'm excited. Then again, I remember the face-palming and shrugging of shoulders and derisory remarks made universally by the gaming fraternity about the DS when it was first unveiled, almost six years ago.

And the Wii.

If your criticism of the Wii was "it'll never work", "it has a silly name" or "euwww look at that controller" then you were wrong.

Not convinced a "sensor for reading the user's movements" is a winner though, on a handheld device. Something has been lost in translation there presumably.

Excite truck is awesome. Surely Wii's on eBay go for < £100?

I'll have a word with the wife, If she doesn't mind I'll happily part with mine for a nominal fee.

I'll have a word with the wife, If she doesn't mind I'll happily part with mine for a nominal fee.

FFS, dick.

I've had this conversation with DoccyG on numerous occasions, "I can't remember the last time I switched my Wii on"
I also can't remember the last time I switched my DS on. In fact, I don't even know where the bloody thing is.

All my spare money is going on a new boiler

home improvements

musical equipment at the moment.

I don't like the over the top swinging games, hope they die out.

Well I'm getting a Wii soon with SMG. I played it at a friends' house when it was released and it was incredible, so I need to get it myself. I hear they're releasing a second one this year too.