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Nintendo warns kids against playing 3-D games

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

has warned to young children through its website not to play its upcoming 3-D video games, the 3DS.

It said that children below 6-year-old should not play the game as it may effect the growth of their eyes. The Japanese website also noted that kids can play the game only when the parents turn off the 3-D functionality of 3DS. Moreover, a password can also be set by parents to keep kids away from using the 3-D.

also says in the statement that other gamers need to take a periodic break from the 3-D games such as after every 30 miutes or every hour.

Same warnings have also been issued by others. TV manufacturers have issued such warnings about young people, drunk people, pregnant women etc. as the viewing of 3-D TV may cause nausea, seizures and dizziness.

The 3DS allows gamer to play three dimensional games without wearing glasses, which are necessary for most movie displays and 3-D televisions.

3DS will hit the Japanies stores in February and it is scheduled in the US in March. The device costs $300.

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Nintendo DSi and DSi XL prices slashed from September

Monday, August 30th, 2010

is dropping and XL prices from September 12 onwards.

The company announced the recently. According to the new price list, the will be sold for $149.99 and the XL will be priced at $169.99.

of ’s executive vice president of Sales and Marketing said, “We know shoppers want to get the maximum value out of every dollar they spend. Our new prices make it easier than ever for consumers to access the tremendous variety of games, applications and social tools on the and XL system.”

However, the earlier model of DS Lite will remain to be sold at $129.

This year the sales of DS was high. Over 3.4 million handhelds were sold in the U.S. through July said .

also announced earlier that they will come up with a 3D version of the device and it will be named as 3DS. This new will feature the technology without the use of glasses.

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Nintendo 3DS succeeding Nintendo DS

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Over the past 5 years it has been seen that the stock of () is on a steady growth and this is not because of the success of . In fact this success of was due to the DS video game system released in late 2004.

The fortune of also grew after the release of DS’ first hardware revision named DS Lite.

More than 130 million units across the world has been sold of the various incarnations of the console and it became the best selling video game platform in the history of gaming industry.

But all these only seems to be just a begining. unveiled the 3DS, the next gaming device.

It was revealed at the event that the 3DS will be succeeding the DS and it will be a clamshell-shaped device with 2 LCD screens.

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