With the North American launch of Nintendo’s 3DS handheld platform just a week away, we still know little to nothing about how the system will actually sound. In terms of technical specs, Nintendo only mentions that the system will have two speakers. I know this doesn’t sound adequate to readers here, but they’re probably making the correct assumption that most people gamers don’t care about the improvements made to the game’s audio capabilities. But they should!
We’ve been speaking with a number of developers over the past months regarding what they’ve been able to accomplish on the system, and from what we can tell, the possibilities on the 3DS are truly endless. Now we just have to hope that developers take notice and make use of the drastic improvements made over the Nintendo DSi that effectively put the 3DS on the same level as the Gamecube in terms of audio.
Just what improvements have been made, and how will they affect how you experience audio on the system? Hit the jump for our list. (more…)
