Nintendo also said that any handheld with a battery life of less than 10 hours is a waste of time. And look at the tiny battery time for this one. Makes the PSP's default battery time look even better =)

If you're that worried about you're children's eyesight, I hope you don't let them watch TV or play any form of video games. As long term exposure to any sort of televisual device will cause some damage to your eyes.

As it is, the 3DS has a battery life time (for 3D games) of approximately 3 hours. With a charge time of 3.5 hours. And if you do let your children use handhelds, you should be wise enough to never let them have access to the charger. Thus they can't just plug it in the wall and play on it non-stop.

That's exactly the opposite stance I took. I have close to 30 DS games, while I only have four PSP games. There's the wonderful Professor Layton, there's the genius Phoenix Wright, Mario Kart, Geometry Wars, Warioware DIY, Trauma Center, Hotel Dusk: Room 215, 9 Hours 9 People 9 Doors, Sribblenauts, New Super Mario Bros., and so many more classic titles.

I'm pretty sure they already announced that the 3DS is going to have parental controls to shut down the 3D effect completely.

It’s unfortunate that you are one of the people who get headaches from it. I’ve never herd of the whole motion sickness thing from games though, weird. Although there is one weird effect I get; while playing games like Guitar Hero after the song is finished the screen swims a bit. I think it’s from the consistent movement and same shapes going across the screen.

I suppose I’m lucky in that I don’t get headaches from 3D, at least I sat through Avatar with no problems. Also as far as the possible harm to children; it hasn’t actually been shown to cause damage, they are just cautioning people because they aren’t sure of the effects on young developing children. Although from the article I read it was for children up until the age of 3 rather than 6. It’s something to keep an eye on anyway; it would be nice if they actually found out either way.

This is the article by the way http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/29850/3D_Gaming_Wont_Make_Your_Eyes_Stick_That_Way_Says_Top_Doc.php At least adults and older children don’t have anything to worry about other than maybe getting headaches.

From what I read about it I somewhat wonder if young children would even see the illusion properly. It’s seems to be a rather fragile thing, it only works best while sitting right in front but even certain eye problems can diminish the effect. Add on a good enough portion of people suffering eye strain and headaches with even short viewing I do wonder if 3D will last in the long term in its current state. I’m kind of hopping it gets ditched and they find a better way to do it that doesn’t seem to be so problematic.

it will happen

mark my words

The deal with kids is that their brains are still developing and things like a lazy eye at that age can definitely lead to problems which wouldn't occur if the lazy eye happened as an adult. There's also the bit about those warnings being proactive in case somebody claims that their kids were harmed and not warned.

You're not likely to get any sort of damage from the technology if you play for short periods of time, longer term in both session duration and total sessions might cause problems. It's just not sufficiently studied to know for sure.

The effect they're using should be significantly less likely to cause harm than other forms of 3D that we've used up until this point because both images should be simultaneously seen by your individual eyes.

Personally, I won't be buying one, I'll wait to see what happens with it. I remember the Virtualboy flopping pretty quickly on release.
This is more or less what I'd think. It's unlikely that your eyes notice whether it's two different images or two different perspectives on the same image. Either way each eye processes it differently.

Hm my son is 8 years old so he should not suffer from any ill effects of the 3ds. I did only mention it, to point at possible side effects, i am a little sceptical towards all new things. Perhaps i was overacting a little. Its totally okay for a big company like nintendo to hint about every possibility. I think they would not sell harmfull handheld consoles on purpose.Thanks to everyone who answered to my post.

Have a nice day

I might buy one since Dead or Alive will be on it :)

This.

That's crazy. I don't think I'm going to buy one until the battery life is double at least.

Oh my... I didn't even read that part about battery life. That's indeed very short compared to the Dsi and Dsi XL. You practically would need a power outlet near you all the time.

Or, just carry a spare battery around.

And a screwdriver to open the battery compartment (if it's anything like the DSlite). Perhaps with such a short life they'll make the battery easily interchangeable.

I never played MGS III Snake Eater on PS2, but somehow ended up playing MGS IV on PS3 a few months ago. I thought about getting MGS III, but then saw that it was going to be released for 3DS... might as well wait. The gameplay trailer for it looked pretty sweet.

That's an odd design change that happened sometime after the GBC, I'm not sure if it was the original GBA, but I do know that my GBA SP had that.