DS vs. 3DS Graphical Comparison: Does the 3DS really improve upon its predecessor?

AceGamez writes: "Until now, much of the hype surrounding the 3DS has (quite rightly) focused upon the handheld’s unique stereoscopic capabilities — the system’s ability to take two-dimensional images and transform them into mind-blowing 3D. However, as our recent hands-on with the device proved, the 3DS is a powerful piece of kit indeed. How, then, does the 3DS compare to its older brother, the DS? And does it still impress once stripped of its sexy 3D? AceGamez investigates…"

[Kalowest]

The 3DS is looking powerful.

[dabri5]

That's like saying, does the PS3 really improve over the PS2...

[CobraKai]

It does. I most Wii games seriously don't look as good.

[matey]

look at the screen for metroid other m the 3ds can dream for that in 60fps and galaxy 2 for that matter

[ABizzel1]

3D gamecube vs. Nintendo 64.

[Natsu X FairyTail]

N3DS will be the best selling next gen(the one coming after psp and ds) portable console.

Yall better start Pre-ordering or stacking money because they gon fly off the shelves early.

[Bloodyghost]

...BUT I FUCKING WANT ONE! Sign me up for Paper Mario, Metal Gear Solid Rising and the new Unnanoucned game by XCOM devs.

[coolman229]

Do you mean Metal Gear Solid The Naked Sample? Rising is for PS360. But yes, the 3DS has an incredible lineup

[Stealth20k]

This is going to be the ps2 of portables.

Its going to get shit loads of games in every genre, and every company will support it

[Stealth20k]

Whoever disagrees is just in denial of how big this is going to be.

The graphics of a gamecube in a portable with support from every company. A physical medium.

Nintendo the past,present, and future portable king

[GodHandDee]

Better gfx than the ds is NOT a hard thing to do :S

[Bloodyghost]

Doing it better in 3D is.

Can not wait to see the gfx of a game thats been rendered without the 3d and optimized for better performance so I can see some near HD graphic caps.

[OpenGL]

It doesn't take that much to render in 3D, especially with the 3DS' low resolution 400x240 display. Also, you won't see "near HD graphics caps" as the GPU in this system is still far behind the G71 based RSX in the PS3 and R500 based Xenos in the 360.

[SpaceFox]

Damn, the differences are huge. I really can't wait for the 3DS.

[BornToKill]

PLEASE!!!!!! be 200 bucks.

[Bloodyghost]

UNLESS! Nintendo is going to bundle it which I highly doubt.

But I hope there will be some kickass Lauch Party Bundles to get my hands on.

[kaos_fish II]

Nah - $249.99 is my bet and it's still gonna fly off the shelves.

[MGOelite]

i may trade my wii in for this. i bought it on a impulse but im genuanly looking forward to the 3ds

[BannedForNineYears]

Fun fact.
Anyone who thought that Resident Evil screenshot on the 3DS was in-game.........IS RETARDED!!!! :D

[coolman229]

You can move the camera around, just like in the MGS3D demo. This is real time

http://gbatemp.net/t236595-...

[BannedForNineYears]

Sorry dude, real time != in-game. -_-

[corneliuscrust]

Real time means the graphics are being rendered on the fly. They were controlling the camera, which means it wasn't pre-rendered. That WAS the game. It was a tech demo. They were controlling it. It wasn't pre-rendered. It was IN GAME. The GAME was the DEMO that the people were playing.

Seriously, what's wrong with some of the people who post here? Do people really hate the 3DS/Nintendo so much that they are trying to slag it at any angle they can?

[turok]

especially since I see sackboy as ur avatar.

[Biggest]

What the hell sense does that make? Because a person likes a game they aren't a reliable source of opinion? Or are you thinking that only PS3 fanboys like Little Big Planet? I don't buy UR comment because you can't spell the word YOUR.

[turok]

@ biggest too lazy to type "your" and since we are in the intarwebs "ur" is more appropriate. LBP is a great game from wut i hear so ill definitely go for the 2nd one. just that some fanboys use sony related images for avatars that and the comment itself leaks abit of fanboyism. so now before i waste anymore words on a intarwebs illiterate punk like urself. i dont buy ur comment either as u fail in web grammar.

[matey]

it was real

[Gr81]

Kind of dumbass question is that?

[SpaceFox]

Man, I hope they make a Smash Bros. for 3DS. Holy sweet mother of God that would be great. Or a Super Mario Galaxy 3DS? Or Super Mario 3DS?

The possibilities are endless.

[etownone]

Kinda makes you wonder ....

The next psp .... how advanced will those graphics be?

I'm assuming much better than PS2 and looking almost as good as the current gen ....
One thing is for sure it's going to stomp the 3DS graphics.

Needless to say ... I'll most likely be getting both

[Yue9]

but don't except sony to beat nintendo at everything the 3DS is very powerful and will be hard to beat its graphic's power and on top of that you don't even know if a new psp is coming or not or don't even know what games are for it the 3DS on the other hand has soild 3rd party lineup sony is in danger at least in the portable department if there isn't no word of a new psp by this holiday season its over for sony's portable system and it will be a very bad idea to announce a new psp at the end of the year because most people will have started pre-ordering the 3DS and they will just leave the new psp alone...

[Fatal Blow]

I am getting it on day one this is gonna be awesome

[Viddharto]

Well, those graphics are only on the beginning of the 3DS's life. The games coming later are going to look even better :D

[jhani]

i have this strange feeling that psp 2 will also be a 3d capable console. It will differ only from 3ds in terms of graphical horse power. I mean it makes total sense if the developers make 3d games for 2 systems not only one. Just a gut feeling i have.

[turok]

...Sony themselves declared psp2 will NOT be having 3D on it.something about visual results not to their liking and for them 3d on handheld just doesn't work (for now...).

[Yue9]

there is no new psp and if there was i wouldn't care nintendo has already showed that the 3DS is coming and alot of people are happy about it even once sony does say something about a new psp it will be far to late because all the hype will be on the 3DS with lots and lots and lots of pre-orders nintendo is just flatout the king of handhelds and no one can stop them..

[jay2]

What a stupid question, you could so 99.9% of people on of those pics and they can say DS, or 3DS.

[Yue9]

with the 3DS on the horzion sony's psp is going to be in grave danger the 3DS already has persona 3D harvest moon 3D metal gear soild 3D star fox 3D sony better do something in the portable department and very fast a new psp wouldn't do me any good i would still perfer the 3DS im just not going to miss out on my beloved harvest moon 3D..

[matey]

3DS does 1.6 billion pixels the wii does 2 billion+ but the 3DS is using 800,000 pixels for each render it has to render the game twice so the wii has a huge fill rate 2 billion with no bottle necks ect wii games will start to look way way way better then what we have now