Wii Successor May Have 3D Support

E3 almost came and went without any news about a Wii successor. Thankfully Japan's Nihon Keizai Shumbun was on the prowl. The financial paper managed to get some hints about Nintendo's next system straight from the person who probably knows best, Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata.

As part of a feature covering 3D games in its Thursday morning edition, the paper asked Iwata if Nintendo would be bringing 3D support to Wii. Iwata's response was, "If you display a 3D image, the image quality becomes extremely bad, so we'd probably do it with the next system. We're thinking that the timing should be once the 3D television adoption rate crosses the 30% mark."

That's probably a ways off given that 3D televisions are only now arriving to the market. But it does seem like a strong hint that a future Nintendo console could have 3D support.

Actually, this looks like a sure thing given Iwata's stance on 3D. Iwata expressed great support for 3D games, telling the paper, "In the future, 3D will become the mainstream of gaming."