The ThreeD...

So there's a basic principle of change that everybody seems to be missing out on when it comes to the whole 3d thing. To explain this were going to have to step through the time portal back into the 2005 and 2006 era.

Not many people actually had HD tv's in this time. They were out in the wild, but they were wildly expensive.
Despite that fact console were outputting games in hd. Silly right. No wait... NO totally not silly. See if there wasn't that hd content at the ready, there would have been no reason to upgrade those old SD tv's into nifty flat hd ones. I mean aside from easier wall mounting.

Now back in the present. Were viewing a new batch of tv's trying to edge in on the holy HD tv market. Since it's happening so soon after the HD revolution many people (who just bought new tv's a few years ago) are totally up in arms over the matter. Shouting doom prophecies and claiming they'll never give in to this tri dimensional monster. Which is pure silliness.
For one there's that thing about many new games coming out in 3d. Sure you can play them normally on your nifty 1080p but having that option sitting there unused to view it in 3d will get to you eventually. It's why I upgraded to an hdtv. I was sitting there playing games on my sdtv when I suddenly realised, this would be a whole lot more enjoyable if it looked better. It wasn't just that though, everything looked kind of crappy in 480p, the menu's and stuff didn't look right. Anyway though that's only one reason.

The other is more technical.
These flat panel tv's most of us have. The lcd and plasma screen ones. They all have a set amount of life. It's not that tv your grandma has that will work faithfully until we clone dinosaurs and destroy the earth (as long as you wack it with a shoe once in a while). No no. These tv's only have forty to sixty thousand hours of life, under ideal conditions (default backlight setting) and temperatures (cold room) while facing downwards (seriously thats how their tested) in them before they expire. Which is respectively four to six years give or take half a year.
That of course means you WILL have to buy another television at some point.
Granted most people don't leave their television on 24 hours a day seven days a week all year long. So lets optimistically say you get ten years from your tv. It will eventually kaput and you will be forced to purchase something new.

In any case, regardless of when you get one (which you will) there will be a large amount of content ready at that time.
Which is the important thing I came here to say. Sony (mainly) isn't just arbitrarily making 3d video games and pushing 3d movies. Their doing it so that people will have something to buy when they upgrade. AND so they will have some reason to upgrade. As well as so manufacturers have a reason to make the darned things of course. I mean why make a product that nobody will be able to use because there isn't any content for it.

Do you understand how supply and demand and basic economy relations work now.

K thanks can you stop bitching about there not bitching a market for 3d today. There will be tomorrow. It's not like anyone has a choice in the matter.