DS Camera Debunked – For Now...

If anything like this does show up at E3 then it would be really interesting. I would probably consider purchasing one myself in fact.

Would be quite a bulky digital camera though.

I love all these rumours. they are really great. it's like everyday is april fool's day. But it amuses me that the jokes that were pulled by Digitiser on teletext and some print magazines, things like "nintendo launch new console with sega games" all seemed to have come true.

C'mon guys...when was the last time Nintendo put a camera on a handheld? That's just silly.

That would be the Game Boy Pocket.

Much as I'd like it, and probably buy it, it won't stand a chance of becoming a hit, for one main reason: storage.

Nintendo doesn't use an open format for data storage on the DS, such as an SD slot, making it mandatory for there to be either an SD slot on the camera itself or a Wi-Fi application to send the pictures; too awkward.

There's where the PSP has the advantage. As much as the Memory Stick is a proprietary format, it's easily read by most PC card readers, plus you can just connect your PSP to the computer and transfer from there. Not to mention the screen is more suitable for displaying photos than either of the DS's

Ah, yes...but what if you could take your photos that you take and send them wirelessly into the rumored hardrive of your Revolution, which is confirmed to also connect to your computer as well as your television?

I'd have said Memory Stick was a hindrance, not help; a lot of people who use portable smart media hate Memory Stick due to unreliability and breakability, and rank it with Atrac on the scale of Sony crap.

Don't forget, as well, that Nintendo have already promised us a multimedia addon. Obviously, this will have to have either storage onboard or have an SD slot or the like. As such, maybe this is where the camera comes in... maybe you can just use your camera's storage card in the multimedia addon, or even use a USB port on it?

yup - the Play Yan takes SD cards so storage will not be a problem - especially given that SD is by far one of the cheapest forms of generic storage available at the moment. I can see people really going for a DS cam especially if any decent non-gaming online browsers / apps break out in the next year or so.

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