[By Mike Snider, USA Today]

Naysayers about the importance of 3-D in video games just lost one to the other side: EEDAR analyst Jesse Divnich.

After spending April 7 at Sony’s Analyst Day and seeing updates of upcoming games such as Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (out Nov. 1), Resistance 3 (Sept. 6), Twisted Metal(Oct. 4), Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One (fall) and Infamous 2(June 7), Divnich issued a report today announcing his defection to the 3-D side.

“I’ve personally never been fond of games in stereoscopic 3-D,” he writes. “Sure, Killzone, Gran Turismo, and MLB: The Showlook great in 3-D, but I’ve personally never felt that 3-D added anything significant to my gaming experience. Now that I have had to chance to experience Uncharted 3 in 3-D, that opinion has changed. … With a core focus on cinematic, story, and action, Uncharted 3 is the prime candidate to convince the naysayers that 3-D belongs in video games—it certainly has convinced me.”

Divnich went on to say that Uncharted 3 “could do for 3-D gaming what Avatar did for 3-D movies. However, given the significant difference in cost to experience Uncharted 3 in 3-D over Avatar in 3-D, one certainly shouldn’t expect a mad mob rush of consumers to drop $3,000 on a 3-D television just forUncharted 3. Instead, Uncharted 3 will solidify 3-D’s legitimacy in the interactive entertainment landscape, just as Avatar did for the 3-D movie experience.”

More of Divnich’s outlook on Sony:
— Sony is “well-positioned for continued software growth on the PlayStation 3” with its release schedule for second half of 2011 (Resistance 3, Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One, Uncharted 3, and Twisted Metal) and its third-party share continues to grow worldwide.
— The Next Generation Portable (due out later this year), he says, “will likely have stronger market success than the PSP. … The key to the NGP’s success, like that of all other gaming platforms, is third-party support. While Sony has currently only announced one third-party title (Call of Duty by Activision), we expect all major third party publishers to announce support at E3 2011.”
— The PlayStation Network has over 75 million registered users and has had more than 1.4 billion pieces of content downloaded globally.

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