The Nintendo 3DS Will Destroy Children’s Eyeballs (No, Really) [3D]

Remember your parents telling you sitting too nearly the TV would make you blind? Well, now when parents tell young kids to turn off the 3D on Nintendo’s 3DS ’cause it’ll ruin their eyes-they’ll actually be right.

The machine translation is just a little rough, but the gist is obvious: Nintendo has issued a warning that youngsters under six shouldn’t use the 3DS’s 3D mode because their vision remains to be ” within the development stage,” and the style that stereoscopic 3D works , delivering different images to each eyeball, ” has a potential impact on the growth of kids’s eyes.”

Sony’s also noted that youngsters under six shouldn’t play 3D games without being examined by their eye doctor first. But the 3DS is in a touch different position than the PS3, since Nintendo’s much more aimed toward kids than Sony is.

To keep the childrens faraway from 3D, the 3DS will apparently have a parental lock on 3D, locking the 3DS in 2D mode. Regardless of the parental lock, though, this can be pretty crazy. Nintendo issuing a warning explicitly stating, ” Hey, our product could screw up your child’s vision.” Who’s gonna buy that for their kids?

If there’s a more powerful argument against 3D-besides the truth so much of the content remains pretty weak-I don’t know what it’s. [ Nintendo Japan via Electronista ]

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