Video: Sony CES 2010: PlayStation 3 and 3D Q&A Session

i just hope 3d will actually be put to good use and not just be the new gimmick of the decade as it has mostly become in a good deal of the movies that employ it. Adding 3d just so you can throw stuff "out" of the screen is really just a waste and adds little to no value to its use.

For the most part even then i don't see it as a necessity in any way and don't know how well it will hold up in the long run, especially given the need to buy new hardware. it was hard enough for the industry to get people to buy hd tvs until they came down in price, hopefully companies can hold out long enough for people to get on board if they expect it to be viable in the future. oh well will have to see how things turn out i guess, although me personally i don't see a reason for all the recent interest in the technology given its limitations.

Yes every manufacturer cooks their own soup and waits to see if the public buys into it. Most of the time early adopters are more like early screwed because they end up holding the bag for the rest of us. If you give into this "new" technology now you will buy overvaluated hardware plus you may be outdated by the time it is really useful and a standard.

We have to wait for the technology to come down in price and to have a common standard right now its just buzz. Even though this technology is pretty old the 3d effect it seems like its becoming worth while with the new tvs, computer generated graphics. Games sure would benefit a lot from this technology and shows can poke your eyes to hide their crappy scripts

As noted, 3D is not new... My 5yr old Samsung DLP will do it, as will my 2.5yr old Samsung LED DLP. My understanding is that the standard red/blue glasses will not work. You will need one of the new 'shuttered' glasses in order to get it to work right.

My $0.02 is that this is just a ploy by Sony to cover up the fact they got nothing else "fun" to show at CES. The news has been out for a while and who exactly is saying it is a buzz word? It is Sony!

They are doing an all out marketing blitz in an effort to make this happen despite all the failures to do so before. 3D is a fad that will fall by the wayside as soon as a new tech worth getting hyped over is brought to the public eye.

too bad it ain't a PS3 exclusivity.. looks like Microsoft is going to do the same. Since they had Gears Of War 2 running in 3D as well. requirements: 3D ready TV + 3D glasses.

The weird thing is that this technology is pretty old (60's) but it's only gaining high popularity now. It always flopped before for some reason.

Useless or not it is a free alternative, but needing a new tv kinda blows away the free stuff.