No DSi until “well into calendar year 2009,” which sounds disturbingly like the holidays to us, but hopefully he’s just implying a few months in. We would hope Nintendo would be following the pattern of the DS Lite, which hit Japan in March of 2006, and made it Stateside in June, but Reggie says DS Lite sales are still strong in the US — which means it’s basically our fault that we don’t get a shiny new toy for Christmas.
On the slim chance that a 52-inch, no-glasses-needed 3D HDTV wasn’t swank enough for you, Philips is one-upping itself at the Biz-Ex conference in Hollywood. This 56-inch monstrosity is hailed as a Quad Full Autostereoscopic 3D HDTV, which means that it packs a slightly absurd (in a good way, of course) 3,840 x 2,160 resolution and can churn through data at an alarming rate. Additionally, Philips is promising that this one can produce up to 46 views at once, which should go a long way in making the third-dimension a lot more believable on TV. There’s no definitive release date just yet, but it’ll probably run upwards of $25,000 whenever it’s ready for prime time.
