Nintendo’s Reggie Fils-Aime updated the press today on the 3DS. Though nothing major came from him, one contact within Nintendo was able to elaborate on some of Reggie’s comments:

1) Nintendo fully expects the 3DS to be their most successful system ever as its predecessor did the unimaginable: outsell the original Game Boy line and has proven that this new brand is even more powerful. With the success that Wii has had also, in bringing gaming to the masses, so too will 3DS bring 3D to the masses.

2) One of the new features that the 3DS will have that Nintendo plans to greatly promote is the fact that it can update its own software by itself. Nintendo really tried to take Wii online and make it a system that’s always connected to the internet and have learned a lot since then in the online market. The 3DS will be able to update games not only by automatically connecting to the internet when possible (without you taking action on it), but even when walking near someone else that has the most updated version of a game. The systems really will “talk to each other”.

3) Nintendo has already partenered with Disney and DreamWorks and most recently has added Fuji TV to the tables, to distribute television programming in 3D on the handheld. Reggie and NOA will unveil more North American partnerships in the near future, but one thing is certain, and that’s that Netflix on Wii greatly influenced Nintendo into making the 3DS a real “video player”.

Like I said, not too much news was revealed by Reggie himself, but at least I was able to get a little more out of Nintendo. The good news is basically that Big N has a lot of confidence in the system, it’s great to hear that its online networking will be a vast improvement over anything Nintendo has delivered up until now, and non-gamers will have more incentive to buy one since TV shows and movies in 3D on the system will be a big, marketed selling point. Now all we need to know is when in March, 2011 will it come out.