Don’t you just hate it when you have to wear glasses on top of your normal glasses just to watch a movie that’s in 3D? Why do we need to work around the tele and not vice versa? I reckon the creators of Nintendo’s latest handheld console had the same question. At the E3, Nintendo unveiled yesterday its newest handheld console, and yes it’ll do 3D.

Called the Nintendo 3DS, the new handheld even has a camera that can take 3D pictures, and it’ll be able to play 3D movies. So it sounds like 3D gaming, 3D photography is the way to go forward? The best bit – no more glasses.

All the 3D will appear on the top 3.5-inch widescreen display, while a lower, square-shaped touchscreen on the bottom is in 2D. In addition to the theme of 3D, the new 3DS will sport a new analog stick, a 3D depth-control slider and have home and start buttons moved to the bottom of the unit.

Here’s what the folks at The Times Techcentral thought of it at first hand…

The 3.5 inch screen has remarkable definition, and the 3D effect is subtly different from that found on TV sets. The depth of the picture seems to lie inside the screen, rather than jumping out of it, but the effect on distances and the feeling of reality is remarkable.

[via Techcentral, Nintendo]