3D Gaming Just Isn’t Worth The Expense

Not in a Virtua Fighter, polygons so sharp you could cut your vegetables with them kind of sense, oh no. Rather, one of those new-fangled three dimensional television things. Regardless of how much we’re being assured through sports broadcasts and aspirational adverts it’s the best thing since 3D sliced bread, still…we just can’t see the point of it all.

Actually, scratch that. The concept of 3D gaming excites us tremendously, but via the alternate method of holographic displays. After all, having some Mario Galaxy style world pop out before your very eyes, allowing gamers to tilt spherical planets positioned before their very eyes in order to solve puzzles and the like would offer fun for all the family. Limited by the boundaries of a traditional screen though, 3D technology seems only to slightly accentuate depth of field effects your brain tends to take care of usually on your behalf.

Besides, doesn’t manufacturing the need to render everything twice kind of go against these years of developing impressive high-definition displays, and all? The obvious impact this is going to have upon the amount of zeroes and ones consoles can churn out, alongside that maginifed, other-worldly effect characteristic of the technique makes focusing on the details somewhat difficult.

Last but not least in our diatribe comes the glasses themselves. Short of setting you back as much as a couple of retail games, they’re clearly discriminatory. Well, what about people whose eyes have given out already? Donning two pairs of glasses at the same time not only leaves you resembling a complete toolbox, but puts the human nose under stresses it wasn’t meant to withstand. To this, we say boo, and ‘do not want’…