Japanese consumers are set to spurn the forthcoming Nintendo 3DS as if it were a rabid dog.

A Japanese consumer poll, shows that less than eight per cent of Japanese consumers expressed a desire to buy the forthcoming Nintendo 3DS handheld gaming console. The 3DS will probably be seen in June, coming on the back of a 3D revolution in telly. But Japan's consumers have greeted the news of 3D gaming tech from Nintendo with a big yawn, even if Nintendo says that the 3DS will be "enjoyed with 3D effects without the need for any special glasses".

Japanese organisation goo Research polled 1,059 members of its monitor group - 52.9 per cent of who were male, 16.1 per cent teenagers, 17.8 per cent twenty-somethings, 21.5 per cent thirty-somethings, 16.2 percent in their forties and 28.3 percent older than fifty. While 42.1 per cent of those polled already owned a Nintendo DS, DS Lite, DSi or a DSi XL — a mere 8.8 per cent, "would…like to get the recently-announced Nintendo 3DS, featuring 3D that doesn't require special glasses."