Nintendo Switch is not compatible with 3DS cartridges

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Nintendo Switch is not compatible with 3DS cartridges

Yesterday (October 20th 2016) Nintendo revealed their newest hardware the NINTENDO SWITCH. You can read the press release for that here .  

 

Nintendo released a promotional video that showed the hardware using a cartridge/ SD card format for its game media .  You can watch that promotional SWITCH video by clicking here or view it below :

This picture collage (which I edited and cropped ) above was provided by Nintendo on its website:  http://www.nintendo.com/switch 

and you can clearly see that this new hardware uses a SD card / cartridge format of some kind. Since the Nintendo 3DS and DS also use a cartridge format many people wondered if the Nintendo SWITCH could play Nintendo 3DS game cartridges . Obviously since the Nintendo SWITCH doesn't have an optical disk drive Wii U and Wii games are not compatible with this new hardware . Recently Famitsu (A popular Japanese publication) confirmed that the Nintendo SWITCH is not directly backwards compatible with the Nintendo 3DS game cartridges . It can be assumed that Nintendo DS game cartridges are also not compatible with the SWITCH hardware since it uses similar technology to the Nintendo 3DS . 

 

Nintendo has a long standing tradition of supporting previous portable hardware in new hardware iterations . The Nintendo 3DS supports DS games , the Nintendo DS supports Game Boy Advance games, and finally the Gameboy Advance supports Gameboy Color and original Gameboy games . It looks like this tradition will end with the Nintendo SWITCH. 

 

Currently it is unknown if the Nintendo SWITCH has touch screen technology. The Nintendo 3DS and DS use touch screen technology for its hardware, so it would be difficult if not impossible to play many 3DS or DS games without a touchscreen of some fashion. If the Nintendo SWITCH does have touch screen technology , what kind is it ? The 3DS and DS use resistive touch screen technology and modern mobile phones and tablets use capacitive technology. If the SWITCH uses capacitive touch screen that might make it difficult (but not impossible) to play 3DS and DS games that use the older resistive touch screen technology . To learn more about touch screen technology please click here .  

 

It was not clear from that video if the Nintendo SWITCH can play video games in stereoscopic 3D. I assume that the Nintendo SWITCH won't have stereoscopic 3D visuals since at no time during the video was stereoscopic 3D mentioned or alluded to . Now it can be possible for the Nintendo SWITCH to play digitally downloaded Nintendo 3DS video games that users have purchased via the eshop , but we don't have any information on that either. We currently have no information on the operating system or software that the Nintendo SWITCH is compatible with at this time. Stay tuned to www.3dor2d.com to get up to date information and analysis on the Nintendo 3DS , Nintendo SWITCH, and more 3D news  . 

 

Source: Famitsu (Article is written in Japanese) 

 

 

Marvel showcases first teaser trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2

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First Teaser Trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy 2

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 will release May 5th 2017 in 3D and 2D.  

 

Source : YouTube  

Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk will release in several different 3D and 2D formats

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Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk will release in several different 3D and 2D formats

Courtesy of New York Film Festival

'Blly Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'

"To accommodate the pic’s wide release — and still give audiences a glimpse at what the filmmaker sees as the further potential of digital cinema — various additional versions of Billy Lynn have been created. They include 120 fps in 2D and 60 fps in 3D as well as today’s current standard of 24 fps. Billy Lynn is also getting a Dolby Cinema release, with two high dynamic range versions that can accommodate 2D and 3D, with up to 120 fps in 2K resolution. Lee and his team have been working at his specially equipped postproduction facility in the Chelsea section of New York to create the best possible versions of each of the formats, derived from the 4K, 3D and 120 fps master. “The experience Ang is delivering will be there, it’s just at different levels,” producer Marc Platt promised."

-Hollywood Reporter 

 

This 3D movie is really interesting because of how it was created with a super high frame rate and Ultra High Definition . It seems like the 3D 4K 120 frames per second version will be all but impossible to watch since only a handful of theaters can display the movie as it was intended. 

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