Wii U will have 3D support
From the archive: published Jul 7, 2011, 15 years ago. Details may have changed since.
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.