Important: Nintendo Warns Their New 3DS Unit Not for Children

:!:Nintendo issued a warning that their upcoming Nintendo 3DS hand-held game machine is not intended for kids under 6. The gaming system is due out in February.

What's their reasoning behind it? They say that long periods of time playing the Nintendo 3DS could have an adverse affect on the eyesight development of young children.

Nintendo 3DS description:Nintendo Co., Ltd. (Minami-ward of Kyoto-city, President Satoru Iwata) will launch "Nintendo 3DS" (temp) during the fiscal year ending March 2011, on which games can be enjoyed with 3D effects without the need for any special glasses. "Nintendo 3DS" (temp) is going to be the new portable game machine to succeed "Nintendo DS series, including the ones for Nintendo DSi, can also be enjoyed. ", whose cumulative consolidated sales from Nintendo amounted to 125 million units as of December 2009, and will include backward compatibility so that the software for

this is like the fourth thread but anyway...

It doesnt matter Nintendos just watching their herd of donkeys

Nintendo are just watching their behinds. There's no doubt that a lot of stupid people will find something on them to sue them. The same could be said for Kinect. People will probably sue for heart attacks and home & content insurance claims due to their use with Kinect

I have heard about this. I think kids under 12 or 10 years old can't play it.

"People won't sue them"? This is a world where fatties sue fast food joints for their obesity,

Nintendo is just playing the cards safely so that they can avoid potential lawsuits

Yet doctors seem to think that the 3D won't do anything harmful at all.

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Then there's the group of optometrists saying that the 3D will not negatively impact developing eyes and in fact could lead to earlier detection of problems. http://www.gamespot.com/news/6285958.htmldzimm

I didn't see the news before. Just sae this news yesterday on another website, so i post it here. :)

"People won't sue them"? This is a world where fatties sue fast food joints for their obesity,

bloopx3

Screw the fatties, this is a world where a guy bathed his cat, tried to dry it on a microwave oven, and then sued the company because there wasn't any warning about drying cats on it.

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"People won't sue them"? This is a world where fatties sue fast food joints for their obesity,

Icare0

Screw the fatties, this is a world where a guy bathed his cat, tried to dry it on a microwave oven, and then sued the company because there wasn't any warning about drying cats on it.

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"People won't sue them"? This is a world where fatties sue fast food joints for their obesity,

BrunoBRS

Screw the fatties, this is a world where a guy bathed his cat, tried to dry it on a microwave oven, and then sued the company because there wasn't any warning about drying cats on it.

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Screw the fatties, this is a world where a guy bathed his cat, tried to dry it on a microwave oven, and then sued the company because there wasn't any warning about drying cats on it.

elbert_b_23

Well, there has this guy on a shopping center that dropped some water in the floor, slipped and then sued the shopping for not cleaning it quickly enough, but the starbucks one gets the winner place for most stupid reason. What's next? Matchstick boxes that have 'warning, this product produces fire' written?

[QUOTE="elbert_b_23"][QUOTE="BrunoBRS"] i still think that the most absurd case is the guy who bought hot coffee on starbucks, let it fall on his crotch, and sued them because there was no warning that the coffee was hot/could hurt his crotch.Icare0

Well, there has this guy on a shopping center that dropped some water in the floor, slipped and then sued the shopping for not cleaning it quickly enough, but the starbucks one gets the winner place for most stupid reason. What's next? Matchstick boxes that have 'warning, this product produces fire' written?

Then there's the group of optometrists saying that the 3D will not negatively impact developing eyes and in fact could lead to earlier detection of problems. dzimm

[QUOTE="dzimm"]Then there's the group of optometrists saying that the 3D will not negatively impact developing eyes and in fact could lead to earlier detection of problems. Calvin079

Easy to tell. Neither.

Even if it really can cause any damage, the handhelds will simply not last enough in the hands of 5 years old kids to cause any damage.

Which kind of people give fragile presents worth a couple hundreds of dollars to a 5 years old kid anyway?

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[QUOTE="dzimm"]Then there's the group of optometrists saying that the 3D will not negatively impact developing eyes and in fact could lead to earlier detection of problems. Icare0

Easy to tell. Neither.

Even if it really can cause any damage, the handhelds will simply not last enough in the hands of 5 years old kids to cause any damage.

Which kind of people give fragile presents worth a couple hundreds of dollars to a 5 years old kid anyway?

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[QUOTE="dzimm"]Then there's the group of optometrists saying that the 3D will not negatively impact developing eyes and in fact could lead to earlier detection of problems. Icare0

Easy to tell. Neither.

Even if it really can cause any damage, the handhelds will simply not last enough in the hands of 5 years old kids to cause any damage.

Which kind of people give fragile presents worth a couple hundreds of dollars to a 5 years old kid anyway?

I think the 3DS will surely cause damage to kids. If I bought it for my little baby, I will make sure he play the 3DS less one hour per day!

Its a warning, nothing more. Its there to prevent people from trying to sue Nintendo. Just like starbucks and McDonalds coffee warn you that it is hot. Its there to prevent there asses from getting sued.

But anyway, little kiddies shouldnt be playing any type of video games really, too many parts to handhelds that could get lost because of them... or eaten...

Lol, DS's in general aren't meant for kids under 6. Seriously, would you like to give your little 4 year old girl a DS and have $130 bucks wasted in like...2 weeks?

Its a warning, nothing more. Its there to prevent people from trying to sue Nintendo. Just like starbucks and McDonalds coffee warn you that it is hot. Its there to prevent there asses from getting sued.

But anyway, little kiddies shouldnt be playing any type of video games really, too many parts to handhelds that could get lost because of them... or eaten...

Gamingclone

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Its a warning, nothing more. Its there to prevent people from trying to sue Nintendo. Just like starbucks and McDonalds coffee warn you that it is hot. Its there to prevent there asses from getting sued.

But anyway, little kiddies shouldnt be playing any type of video games really, too many parts to handhelds that could get lost because of them... or eaten...

Rod90

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Its a warning, nothing more. Its there to prevent people from trying to sue Nintendo. Just like starbucks and McDonalds coffee warn you that it is hot. Its there to prevent there asses from getting sued.

But anyway, little kiddies shouldnt be playing any type of video games really, too many parts to handhelds that could get lost because of them... or eaten...

BrunoBRS

Why don't Nintendo just put a parental control in the system to disable 3D using some form of password protection regardless of the slider position. Not too disimilarly to the 360 where you can limit play time for youngsters. That would surely stop the whining (as if).

Love how the media is trying to slaughter Nintendo trying to claim they're blinding a generation, 50% of parents use the TV as a babysitter.

Why don't Nintendo just put a parental control in the system to disable 3D using some form of password protection regardless of the slider position. Not too disimilarly to the 360 where you can limit play time for youngsters. That would surely stop the whining (as if).

Love how the media is trying to slaughter Nintendo trying to claim they're blinding a generation, 50% of parents use the TV as a babysitter.

Leaky_Taps_Man

I think Nintedo has implimented something like that in the 3DS, though that I am unsure of, I just heard that in a rumor.