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New NDS?

zap2

zap2

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Or atleast a new design?

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/rumor/another-nintendo-ds-redesign-on-the-way-322947.php


Gamespot is reporting that a redesign to the mega-popular Nintendo DS is already complete and will hit the market when DS Lite sales taper off. Gamespot's source, financial analyst Evan Wilson claims the revamped DS will be slimmer, lose the GBA port, add on-board memory and have larger screens.

While Nintendo has yet to comment on the matter, it seems about time for some sort of a Nintendo update in the portable market (the first DS hit stores in November 2004). Then again, it almost seems like it's time for a new portable system altogether from Nintendo. While the Gameboy Advance saw two redesigns during it's lifecycle, the Game Boy Micro was announced after the DS.

In any case, the mention of the on-board memory is especially interesting. Could Nintendo be adding media player functions to the DS
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Hmm...perhaps onboard memory for that upcoming VC for DS, with support for GBA, GBC and GB?

I'd be up for that!
 
zap2 said:
Or atleast a new design?

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/rumor/another-nintendo-ds-redesign-on-the-way-322947.php





Hmm...perhaps onboard memory for that upcoming VC for DS, with support for GBA, GBC and GB?

I'd be up for that!
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Would be nice but losing the GBA port wouldn't be such a good idea, some games (like Pokemon Diamond) depend on the GBA Pokemon games to get every Pokemon and to trade over your old collection and they definitely can't dimish the experience for one of their best selling games.
 
Chone said:
Would be nice but losing the GBA port wouldn't be such a good idea, some games (like Pokemon Diamond) depend on the GBA Pokemon games to get every Pokemon and to trade over your old collection and they definitely can't dimish the experience for one of their best selling games.
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True...but Nintendo might get you to rebuy all the pokémon game on VC, and repay Nintendo. And then you can use the DS's VC to access them!
 
When DS Lite sales taper off. lol, so in a few years time? :D

If they added some nifty new features to it, like the VC playback then I'd be tempted. But if they just take a DS lite and give it bigger screens without a GBA port then I wouldn't look twice :eek: seems like a budget version of a Lite.
 
I'll buy a Nintendo handheld when I can play my Wii VC games on it. If this function is not added then I see no reason why it's better than the lite. Removing the GBA slot makes it a lesser machine in my opinion ;)
 
Losing the GBA port will be a bad thing and it seems like an illogical choice. There are so many peripherals that use the port. Look at the rumble pak, the arkanoid controller, the Browser memory cart, that camera game that came out in japan...

Unlike the GBC->GBA, the DS is an extension of the GBA hardware, and it's not like they're losing too much money keeping that backwards compatibility.
 
zap2 said:
Or atleast a new design?

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/rumor/another-nintendo-ds-redesign-on-the-way-322947.php





Hmm...perhaps onboard memory for that upcoming VC for DS, with support for GBA, GBC and GB?

I'd be up for that!
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Pfft. Predictions from Financial Analysts are always full of crap; they're good at predicting market twists but they really don't understand the hardware involved and how companies traditionally treat different technologies.

This guy's predictions have as much weight than anyone else on this board who knows the industry well.
 
twoodcc said:
yeah i'd prefer a new system also.
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The problem here is that the handheld is usually always 1 or 2 generations behind the 'home console' version generally.

The problem is if they released a new machine stepping up power (we're at N64 stage with the DS) we would move onto gamecube kind of power.

However this could be too much power because it's so close to the wii power wise.

I think this is the reason for just dragging out re-designs rather than new machine.
 
I don't think we're at the point where we can fit a gamecube into something the size of a DS. Anyway, the Gameboy Advance lasted a long time. I can see the DS lasting just as long if not longer.
 
I'd rather see something tied into the Wii. A real Gameboy 2 of sorts, where you can purchase games online via the Wii or PC (a la iTunes) and send them to your handheld, sorted on some kind of internal memory. Give it VC playback as well. I'd like that.
 
Another DS huh....I think the lite is cool just the way it is unless they find a way to make it smaller/thinner but the screen bigger. handheld sales nowhere near falling off so I don't think this redesign DS will be hitting stores anytime soon...maybe in another two/three years.



Bless
 
raggedjimmi said:
I'd rather see something tied into the Wii. A real Gameboy 2 of sorts, where you can purchase games online via the Wii or PC (a la iTunes) and send them to your handheld, sorted on some kind of internal memory. Give it VC playback as well. I'd like that.
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They're actually doing this with the Wii and DS to some extent over in Japan. I don't think the US is getting it for a while.
 
NAG said:
They're actually doing this with the Wii and DS to some extent over in Japan. I don't think the US is getting it for a while.
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I don't believe they've started doing it. But they announced it a while back. We'll get it in the US as well.

They've got DS Download Stations set up all over Japan, and soon they'll start letting Wii owners download DS demos.
 
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