Search

[Mikeypr]

New 'larger screened' Nintendo DS revealed

By David Gibbon, Gaming Reporter

A games industry analyst claims that Nintendo has completed work on a revised DS handheld, but will hold off from launching it until sales of the current DS begin to slide.

Pacific Crest Securities analyst Evan Wilson told Gamespot: "Our contacts indicate that a refreshed DS is complete.

"It is thinner, has no Game Boy Advance port, has on-board storage and larger screens. However, we do not expect a revamped Wii or DS until sales begin to tail off in all three major geographies."

However, with the current Nintendo DS currently selling exceptionally well across the world, including the UK where it is currently Britain's best-selling games system, it could be a while before Nintendo unleashes any updated machine onto the market.

[PanzerWolf]

Huh? Abandoning GBA support and on board memory, what are they thinking?

They might as well just create another handheld system for all I care.

[Perseid]

If it's not broken...

[onekelly]

This is kind of funny,... of course they will update the DS when sales decline. REALLY?! REALLY?! (skit from saturday night live) This guy cracks me up! No sh*t, they will make a better one. All major brands do this, with almost everything, cars, games, consoles, tv's, lightbulbs, etc.... I would have to believe most of you knew they DS would get an update in a year or two when sales decline.

[fstarter]

If they are abandoning the gba port, all I can think is onboard memory and rumble and put the browser in the firmware no need for the gba port.

[Devil_Spawn]

.... am i the only person who thought the new ds sounded good

[kkan]

.... am i the only person who thought the new ds sounded good

its here already  DS LITE lol

and if its not BROKEN (LITERALLY ) .............then why change it lol

[Devil_Spawn]

its here already  DS LITE lol

and if its not BROKEN (LITERALLY ) .............then why change it lol

whats that about you play a ds? i dont recall the nes being broken

change is the future

[Perseid]

The original NES? The one with the plastic door? It was broken. The door was meant to keep dust and crap out of the cartridge contacts but from what I saw of many NESes out there all it really did was keep dust and crap IN.

Anyway, all this removal of backwards compatibility is disconcerting. You don't care now because you have a DS that plays GBA. You may even have a GBA that plays GBA. What happens years from now when these electronics die? Do we just move on to bigger "better" games?

[kkan]

my view is that they are SLITTING their own THROATS ...did they forget they have not long since released a SLOT 2 DS CAMERA doh!

and what about OPERA DS that also needs a RAM PACK ??

And what about that dragon game thingy with a SLOT 2 CARD SWIPER thingy ??

and that SLIDER game thing with the TABLE TOP slider attachment??

[Devil_Spawn]

agreeably removing slot-2 support may not be a great move, but maybe a setup similar to the features of the wii might be nice, image, mp3, maybe video playback built in, it would become the ultimate psp-beater so to speak. also, of all the 2 years of having my slot-2 supercard sd, i can say that i have only ever played 1 gba game, alien hominid, and that was it. besides, just because they are removing the gba slot doesnt mean it cant run gba - the cpu's are the same, so maybe it could run games off the internal memory. who knows? but anyway, i will persevere with my current terrible ds until this one comes out, as the ds lite doesnt seem like much of a step up to me, really, specially with the d-pad of doom.


ok so maybe nes wasnt a great example, but what about the DVD, or standard definition TV's, o definitely dont see anything broken about them, but the industry has to move forward or else nobody would buy anything so the companies would go completely bust... some nice ds-wii integration on the new ds would be pretty sweet too... plus its got BIGGER SCREENS :O

even just adding WPA wireless support would be nice.. who knows...


if it aint perfect, why not improve it

[fexo]

Surely the primary objective of this new console will be to give Dark Fader a new challenge!

[Doggy124]

I think they will start a new portable console (not in DS serie).

that why they cut GBA slot (as for reverse gaming, they might keep DS slot along with new type media)

You can see now that nintendo don't care when they do reverse gaming if they cut some of its feature.
for example : they cut GBA to GBA link port on the DS.

[dantheman]

It really doesn't make sense to make a new version of the DS without a GBA port.  The DS already uses the exact processor used in the GBA, just clocked at twice as fast.  With the Game Boy Micro, I could see them ditching GB/GBC since the z80 processor took up valuable space, but the DS's ARM7 can already natively handle GBA by default. 

More than likely, as others have stated, it's for the DS's successor.  I can easily see them dropping GBA support in that case.

[teknicz]

The way I see it, it does make sense.

There are tons of people in Japan who have bought a lot of the Brain Training games, it's a pretty big market.

Those are the same people that don't play "games" as much, and probably do not even own GBA games.

So this new DS is tailor-made for them, bigger screen, lighter weight, no GBA port...perfect for the mom and pop who'd rather be playing Sight Training than MegamanZX Advent.

My best guess is that Nintendo is trying to tap further into this market with this "new" DS, rather than it being the next successor. Hell, they could probably even sell it for less, being just a barebones DS, just imagine the sales of that...it'd be incredible.

I would take the report with a grain of salt though; without ground breaking/shocking news, most of these game analysts would be out of a job since the information they give us is pretty much what we could already get from a variety of other sources.