As discussed earlier today, several gaming giants (including Sony and Nintendo) are banking on 3D video games in a big way in their E3 portfolios. If a new survey released by Famitsu magazine is any indication, however, they may have a lot of convincing to do over in Japan.
Respondents to a poll posted on Famitsu’s website about gaming in 3D had a lot to say about the up-and-coming technology, and their opinions ran the gamut from must-have to must-avoid. Among the pollees, 72.3% stated that they were interested in 3D coming to video games, with many of them pointing out the novelty involved (”It has the same impact as when games went from 2D pixels to 3D polygons,” said one). Not all readers were excited, though: “I saw a demo of a 3D computer game and the 3D aspect was really convincing, but I found that the effect wasn’t as striking on a smaller screen. It darkens the image, too, so I couldn’t really call it breathtaking.”
72.7% of people polled had viewed 3D in action before, mainly through watching Avatar in a theater, and 26.6% had plans in mind to purchase a 3D-compatible TV in the future. (2.4% had already done so.) When asked what kind of games they’d like to play in 3D, first-person shooters took the top spot, followed by action games and RPGs. “I wish I could really go into an RPG world and grab anything I wanted to inside of it,” one reader said. “I bet the original Super Mario Bros. would seem really fresh all over again if you played it in 3D,” another one added (jokingly, we hope).
