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Famitsu publisher thinks new DS will be shown at E3

by Kyle Orland on Apr 11th 2008 1:19PM

All you jerks out there who are used to lording your shiny new DS Lites over Phat-owning early-adopters might have to get used to playing second fiddle soon. In the latest issue of Japanese gaming rag Famitsu, publisher Hirokazu Hamamura speculates that a new version of Nintendo's best-selling handheld may be revealed at this summer's E3 trade show.

As detailed in a Bloomberg Japan report (sketchy machine translation), Hamamura's comments seem based on nothing more than industry chatter and pure conjecture on his part -- Nintendo predictably offered up a no comment. The timing does seem about right, though -- going back to the Game Boy days, Nintendo has released a new portable hardware revision roughly every two years since 1996's Game Boy Pocket (1998: Game Boy Color; 2001: Game Boy Advance; 2003: GBASP; 2004: Nintendo DS; 2005: Game Boy Micro; 2006: DS Lite). What would you like to see on a potential DS upgrade? Let us know in the comments.

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Tags: ds, DS-Lite, DS-Phat, E3, hardware, upgrade

Reader Comments (108)

no.

vrrrooOOOOM! F.

Yes.

It's the only way they can do it right. There's still be WiFi, but there needs to be somekind of cellular wireless broadband that covers everywhere. And with wireless broadband comes the on-demand and unlimited games downloading subscriptions.

Game resellers are going to be sad, but that's how it is. There will be no more ridiculously priced $30-50 games in reseller stores. Now the games will be sold wirelessly directly from Nintendo or loaded through a USB connection, ad-hock WiFi connection or something from games vending machines that will replace the phisycal video game stores.

Main advantage is the games will continuously be upgraded, and they can be released much faster cause there will be nothing wrong for the game developper to release a game in Beta state and then later release the fixes and improvements in upgrades of the game. So look forward to game developpers being able to release games much cheaper and much faster.

That's part of the Nintendo strategy, thanks.

I would like to see upgradable firmware, not needing to reset the DS just to backout from the Pictochat or options menu. Maybe if they dropped GBA support but kept the cart slot that could still affect weight, size and cost. Also a SD slot would be a welcomed addition so we might actually get keepable demo downloads for our DS through the computer or the Wii. Also a revision would come at a great time, my DS L and R triggers are on the way out thanks to three games, Tetris, Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventure.

my guess is that it will be somewhat slimmer with no gba port. not much else.

Hoping their next handheld has a touchscreen as good as the iPhone. That thing is brilliant, if only the DS Lites screen had something a bit more protective on it. Even my Tom Tom has no glass but still doesn't look as bad as the DS's screen after finger use.

Multitouch would be awesome too.

DS with more built in memory, a card reader, mp3 player and the bility to download video, music, games and VC titles from the Wii... that would do nicely.

Though, I'm playing Warioware Twisted on the GBA at the moment... and its awesome, one of the most fun games ever. So tilt sensors would also rock!

"What would you like to see on a potential DS upgrade?"

I won't be interested unless there's TV-out AND they go back to the original DS's D-Pad (The lite's D-Pad is shit).

I think there will be bigger screens (probably try to compete with the psp's screen size) and no GBA slot so it can be even smaller then the lite. Sound will probably get louder. maybe it can get even brighter? ok im dragging on now, but im serious about some of this stuff

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