Here are some pictures of a device purported to be the Nintendo 3DS. Kotaku did some excellent snooping around and translating of a site called Munch Blog. Here is what Kotaku editor Mike Fahey came up with:
The pictures come from a Japanese website called, as Google’s translator indicates, Munch Blog, a site about anime, manga, games, and movies. The author says the pictures were posted without the manufacturer’s permission, and that anyone not wishing to spoil the big reveal at E3 this year should look away. The device is fist shown as a small unit with one large screen, which threw us off at first. One screen? How could this possible be the 3DS, which should be dual-screened by name and nature?
The one screen allows games to be played either on one large screen, or two simulated screens, ensuring backwards compatibility with the normal DS. In fact, the person taking the pictures inserts a DS cart, the Japanese version of Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier (a personal favorite of mine), and shows off the various orientations the dual screens can be displayed in, along with a smoothing filter built into the unit.
It looks pretty sweet, but does it clash with the rumor that the 3DS will use a 3.4-inch Sharp parallax screen? What do you think? Real? Or fake?!?
Man, this better not be the 3DS! I will not buy this, it's too big to be a portable gaming unit. If i see this model when the announcement is made, i am going to boycott future Nintendo portable units no matter how good they are.
Anyone else notice that the screen was sifted up some on the second pic in order to make the screen cover up the same spots as in the first pic? I’m calling fake.
I don’t know about real or fake, I’m not good at all at being able to tell when something is messed with (unless it’s just done horribly). But if this is real, I would be severely disappointed in Nintendo.
Looks like someone built a Real Fake device. I can’t see that possibly being a real idea.
I am calling Bravo Sierra. It looks photoshopped to hell.
Meh I’m calling fake. It just doesn’t look very sleek or portable either even if it was real.