I have seen the future of gaming and it is 3D

Strictly Speaking

I hope not to intrude on a conversation, however, I would like to voice my own personal views in regards to this thread. The subject being the use of 3D in gaming; It is not a matter of the technology catching up to the games, but the games catching up to the technology.

Nintendo broke through with motion sensing technology, and was promptly over-run with a thorough batch of mediocre self-proclaimed "party games" that utilized the new technology, relying on the technology's novelty rather than their own personal playability. When the excitement of being able to point at the screen and have a cursor display wore off, multiple Wii titles jumped from the shelves into the 99 cent bargain bin simply out of shame for their own existence.

The idea of using 3D technology in gaming, with glasses or without, would all depend on the use thereof; certainly, to start, there would be games who simply plastered old concepts and familiar characters to introduce it's use. Puzzle games, requiring you to look from a certain perspective, or platforming games that give you true depth perception, perhaps?

Yet, some of my personal favorite games didn't have so much as a jump feature. Many games from classic systems are more popular than today's, relying more upon the design of the game than the technological input (read:controller) or the graphical output. Gaming would certainly benefit from 3D, but the industry would do well not to rely on it.