In a small press release yesterday, Nintendo revealed plans for a successor to the popular hand-held gaming device, the Nintendo DS. The DS, which has sold over 125 million units units worldwide, has been an enormous success for Nintendo and has had 4 incarnations of it's own: the original DS "phat", the DS Lite, The DSi, and the DSi XL (LL in Japan) which isn't even going on sale in the United States until the end of this month. The successor is tentatively named 3DS due to Nintendo's boastful claim that the device will support 3D gaming without glasses. Though some are skeptical about how 3D can be achieved without glasses, Nintendo has already release pseudo 3D games for the DSi alreadyOther changes planned for the 3DS include a thumb-stick, an accelerometer, and a rumble feature. There is currently no release date planned aside from the "back-end of 2010" but many analysts predict that the release window to be slightly before November in order to capitalize on the Holiday Season. Nintendo's brief press release didn't offer much more information other than they promise to reveal more at this years E3.
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