The rumour mill has ground out a juicy fresh one - a new Nintendo DS is supposedly on the way. Said new DS will come with not one, but two touch screens. It will also apparently feature screens that are slightly bigger than those currently exhibited by the DS Lite.
This comes from Kotaku, which claims to have obtained the information from "several industry sources outside of Nintendo".
If true, however, we apparently won't get a full announcement until early next year. That timing, at least, would make sense. Nintendo wouldn't want to hurt its Christmas DS sales by encouraging gamers to wait until next year for a new model.
Nintendo, un-shockingly, has called the report "rumour and speculation" when speaking to SPOnG.
Source: Kotaku
This comes from Kotaku, which claims to have obtained the information from "several industry sources outside of Nintendo".
If true, however, we apparently won't get a full announcement until early next year. That timing, at least, would make sense. Nintendo wouldn't want to hurt its Christmas DS sales by encouraging gamers to wait until next year for a new model.
Nintendo, un-shockingly, has called the report "rumour and speculation" when speaking to SPOnG.
Source: Kotaku
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config 27 Aug 2008 17:31
1/9
It will also apparently feature screens that are slightly bigger than those currently exhibited by the DS Lite
About £@€&ing time.
I care much more about being able to see what's on the screen without having it at squinting distance than I do about blocking the bottom screen while I scribble on the top
deleted 27 Aug 2008 18:24
2/9
Nintendo DT?
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Joji 27 Aug 2008 19:27
3/9
Sounds nice. It was always coming too. I think I'd buy another one and if true, it should be interesting to see how two screen could be used instead of one.
deleted 27 Aug 2008 20:37
4/9
i personally cannot see how two screens would work, i mean you have to hold the device with one hand!, so both cant be used at the same time and as pointed out using the top screen would Shirley cover the bottom screen, i believe this one is rumor and speculation only!
Dito 27 Aug 2008 23:37
5/9
I don't like the DS, easy ti DiSh.
What about a one screen phone version with motion, oh wait, mobiles like that they have been available for years, and Nintendo probably doesn't want Java.
Why do people buy their crap, and I mean crap, since the cutesy Game cubie and GBA it has been down hill, with all the Nintendo suck buts lapping it up (in the South Park vernacular).
They could have released a CD version of N64, and updated, and people would have been quiet happy over that instead of Playstation (big tech demo people, that unsurprisingly have problems getting games that good game wide). They could have been selling a DVD version to this day at $100, now that's success. Hold it, isn't that what Sony does, except in a more expensive form.
Come on, shove one or two 400mhz cores and a single sharp 3D screen into it, and that Toshiba PSP beating 3D chip, now there something worth buying. I want my DSD..
What about a one screen phone version with motion, oh wait, mobiles like that they have been available for years, and Nintendo probably doesn't want Java.
Why do people buy their crap, and I mean crap, since the cutesy Game cubie and GBA it has been down hill, with all the Nintendo suck buts lapping it up (in the South Park vernacular).
They could have released a CD version of N64, and updated, and people would have been quiet happy over that instead of Playstation (big tech demo people, that unsurprisingly have problems getting games that good game wide). They could have been selling a DVD version to this day at $100, now that's success. Hold it, isn't that what Sony does, except in a more expensive form.
Come on, shove one or two 400mhz cores and a single sharp 3D screen into it, and that Toshiba PSP beating 3D chip, now there something worth buying. I want my DSD..
deleted 28 Aug 2008 00:30
6/9
and the award for best anti nintendo rant goes too.....
tyrion 28 Aug 2008 07:28
7/9
haritori wrote:
and the award for best anti nintendo rant goes too.....
... Not that guy!
Dito 28 Aug 2008 18:47
8/9
tyrion wrote:
haritori wrote:
and the award for best anti nintendo rant goes too.....
... Not that guy!
Dito..
This is what the DS should look like:
http://news.cnet.com/2300-1044_3-6239928.html
I would presumably pay $75 for something like that, oh, wait, how much did the much cheaper DS cost? Lets see, with same DS size, but with a screen like that, sounds cool. The people making the low cost screen for that will have the screen tech available by the end of the year, or early next, hmm. what did that article say.
I want, I want, my DSD (in case you haven't notice it is a copy of PSP)
Daz 28 Aug 2008 18:52
9/9
Nintendo DTS