The next gen DS - what could be improved?

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/ninten02.jpg
- two (2) cameras
- bigger screens and thinner
- internal storage and SD slot
- online store
- free internet browser
- music player
- no GBA slot :(

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The difference doesn't look like much. But I like the idea of an sd slot and the download games a lot... if they can play of the sd card... and the selction is decent

if they can play OFF the sd card... and the SELECTION is decent. Could make up for no gba slot

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/10/new-nintendo-ds.html

I dig the SD slot/downloadable games too, as well as the bigger screens. I never upgraded to the Lite, so when this comes out in the US I'll probably finally break down and buy a DS (my current system is borrowed). I hope they finally put in WPA support.

But, on the other hand... I'm really unsatisfied with all these mobile convergence platforms, like the gaming portion of the iPhone/iPod Touch. Sure you can use this as a portable music player with an SD card, but it's going to crap compared to an iPod. The camera is pathetic - my five-year-old camera phone could do 1.3 megapixels, vs the 0.3 of this (and two cameras? why?) but it's likely going to be a Game Boy Camera-type thing for Pictochat and other silliness. Also, with the removal of the GBA slot, they kind of just told the Daigasso and Guitar Hero guys to screw themselves. Too bad that Rumble Pak didn't get more use!

Should be interesting later today, when we see how many of these news items were mistranslated. But those demo videos with all the titles, both for the DS and Wii, look promising. Too bad they didn't show them at E3!

Yep, WPA is the only thing which might convince me to buy this, none of the other improvements seem particularly necessary to me.

some places reporting that the outer camera is 3MP and the inner 0.3MP. so the outer one is for taking pictures and the inner one maybe for some sort of voice chat app?

hmm, maybe not.

i need a new DS anyway, my touch screen is kinda fucked up (always off by a couple of MM, re-calibrating doesnt work). everything else is gravy.

but ya, i couldnt care less about using it as an ipod or camera

Wow, so glad i bought a DS Lite one fucking week ago.

Oh wait, no GBA slot? I'm cool then.

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime revealed that the iteration on their popular handheld will not make its way to stateside until "well into 2009."

Fils-Aime was surprisingly straight-forward about Nintendo's reason for this decision, which basically amounted to: They know they can sell more of the currently offered DS Lites. --1up

Ha, Reggie! That's a long wait, though. I'm pretty sure they already announced the Europe release for next spring, so it could be a longer wait for us in the States.

fuck you reggie, I was probably going to buy a ds lite in the near future, now I won't, because I don't want another device that's crippled out of the box.

I repeat fuck you reggie

Hey, he could have just as easily lied and said there wasn't enough production capability, or some other lame excuse. Besides, knowing Nintendo, the early downloadable stuff will suck anyway. Maybe it'll bring the DS Lite prices down to a temptable point. The main shitty thing is, if it takes all the way to late '09 to get it to us, it might only be a year to 18 months later that we get the real successor to the DS.

Circa: yeah, I wouldn't regret it much. The system as it is has a billion great games to play on it right now.

Just got a DS Lite last Sunday, and reserved the Korg DS-10!

But the fact that the music player on the DSi has pitch/tempo control leads me to believe that there will be some form of DJ software coming out for it.