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In a surprising move, Nintendo announced today that the company will be releasing a new handheld platform sometime before the end of March 2011. More information will be revealed in a few months at E3, but we know one big feature already: The games on this system will be in 3D.

Currently called the "Nintendo 3DS" the new platform is an entirely new hardware line, although it will be backwards compatible with DS and DSi games. Nintendo claims that 3D glasses will not be required to experience 3D on the device. That's all that's known about the handheld for sure, although tech site Gizmodo has a list of predictions about the device, which you can see here.

I'm very curious to learn more about this upcoming device and its 3d capabilities. After the success of the DS and the Wii, I've learned not to discount anything Nintendo does, no matter how strange it initially seems.