Wii U will have 3D support

If you’ve invested in one of those awfully expensive 3D HDTVs, you may be pleased to know that the Wii U will have 3D support. Otherwise, if you’re like me, you’re probably apathetic about 3D as a whole, and so you couldn’t care less if the Wii U has 3D support or not. But I digress.

In an interview with Mercury News (spotted by CVG), Nintendo president Satoru Iwata stated that while the Wii U will include technically support 3D, that isn’t the direction Nintendo is going with the console. Instead, that sort of thing will be up to the publishers – like the online experience, apparently.

“If you are going to connect Wii U with a home TV capable of displaying 3-D images, technologically, yes, it is going to be possible, but that’s not the area we are focusing on,” Iwata explained. “When it comes to 3-D, we already have the 3DS, and each owner of the Nintendo 3DS is capable of viewing 3-D images. However, when it comes to the home console, it depends upon the availability of 3-D TV sets at home, which, unfortunately, is not expanding enough. And rather than pouring a lot of energy into that kind of area, with the Wii U we’d like to focus more on each Wii U owner being able to have an equal opportunity to enjoy it.”

So, there you have it. The Wii U will support 3D, but Nintendo won’t actually be making any games that use it. At least not in the short-term.