Nintendo has stated that interest in the 3DS‘ augmented reality features is growing, hinting at the possibility of new games exploiting the use of the system’s card-reading technology. After making dragons come out of someone’s face, who wouldn’t be interested?
“Well, it seems that AR technology is going to become even more widely known and popular,” said Hideki Konno in Nintendo Power. “I think it’s going to be something that people will want to play around with, whether that’s on the developer side or consumer side. It’s already generating a ton of ideas within the Nintendo development teams, and we’e been hearing ideas come from outside developers as well.”
The AR stuff is the most exciting feature of the 3DS, more than the 3D part, I think. As silly as it is, I quite like what the AR cards and the Face Raiders nonsense currently offer, so I’m intrigued to see what third parties could come up with.
Nintendo has ‘tons of ideas’ for 3DS AR games, third parties showing interest as well [GoNintendo]
Published: May 4, 2011 08:40 am