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Nintendo dismisses rumours of new DS News
DS News by Ellie Gibson
Nintendo has dismissed suggestions a new DS with two touch screens is on the way.
According to Kotaku, the new screens will be a bit bigger than the ones we're used to. Apparently there are no plans for an official announcement until Christmas is out of the way.
But that's all just "rumour and speculation", Nintendo told GamesIndustry.biz.
What features would you like to see in a new DS, readers? Our vote goes to backwards compatibility with the Gizmondo and a laser.
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SeesThroughAll
27/08/08 @ 10:44
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Two touch screens... would be nice for some games, I guess, but it would make future games incompatible with older DS models.
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Triggerhappytel
27/08/08 @ 10:48
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Which probably means it's true, then.
I've never particularly seen the appeal of the DS. Bar a few appealing games I don't see what it have over the PSP to have created such a huge chasm in the comparative sales figures. |
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SeesThroughAll
27/08/08 @ 10:52
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Bar a few appealing games I don't see what it have over the PSP to have created such a huge chasm in the comparative sales figures.
It's cheaper and it plays games that non-gamers are familiar with, like Mario. |
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Two touch screens... would be nice for some games, I guess, but it would make future games incompatible with older DS models.
That's because it would essentially be the DS 2, not a revision of the existing console. The DS has been out for nearly four years now, it wouldn't be surprising to see Nintendo unveil, and possibly release, its successor sometime in 2009. Two touch screens would seem like the next logical step I guess (along with better graphical capabilities), but I'm not sure if that alone would be enough of an upgrade. K |
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Britesparc
27/08/08 @ 11:30
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Well, you don't have to touch both screens at once... imagine a point & click adventure where you clicked where you wanted your character to go on the bottom screen, and could click the top screen to select inventory items. It makes sense.
But I agree with Santino, I don't wanna see a new DS till 2010/2011 or so. |
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kinky_mong
27/08/08 @ 12:12
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I've never particularly seen the appeal of the DS. Bar a few appealing games I don't see what it have over the PSP to have created such a huge chasm in the comparative sales figures.
I regret buying mine. I bought it so I could play the DS iterations of the good Nintendo franchises and all of them, with the exception of Mario Kart and New Super Mario Bros, were bollocks IMO. Metroid Hunters was abysmal and made my hands ache, Mario vs. DK was an irritating Lemmings Clone that lost all the charm of the GBA one, Wario Ware Touched was dissapointing, and Phantom Hourglass has earnt a special place as the only Zelda game I haven't completed because I lost the will to carry on playing after returning to the same Dungeon with pointless time constraints for the 5th time. The only time I ever use it now is to play Picross which fills me with self-loathing when I realise that puts me in the same boat as the target audience of those dire adverts. |
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thesombrerokid
27/08/08 @ 12:14
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all totally wishful thinking but I'd love to see these features
MORE SYSTEM AND VIDEO RAM!!!!! Texture Flitering an SD Card slot! more buttons so you can use it as a Classic Controller for the Wii!
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SeesThroughAll
27/08/08 @ 12:18
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@ thesombrerokid: Sounds like that's a Pandora you're talking about ;) Check out the link I gave above.
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@ kinky_mong
+ 1 I agree, thought I was the only one that thought Zelda PH was an ugly mess of a game. It had lots of depth for a DS game, but murky pixelated depths, the likes of which I hadn't seen since a PS1. Who could have possibly though the 3D graphics were an improvement?! The SNES one looks a billion times better. Here is a list: SNES 2D > PS1 / DS 3D SNES 2D = PS2 / PSP 3D SNES 2D < PS3 3D Memorise it well, gamey-development types. |
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peak_performance
27/08/08 @ 12:24
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Nah Phantom Hourglass graphics were great, 'twas the gameplay that lacked.
Still plenty of live remaining in the DS btw. Nintendo has no reason at all to release a new one until they see a chance to make even better money, that is when the sales have slowed or a competitor has revealed a worthy opponent. No doubt they are in a planning stage though... Edit: yeah and for once Nintendo actually isn't putting out the best games on a system. It's amazing.
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My personal feature wants:
-Dual touch screens with multi-touch -Tilt sensing (a la iPhone) -SD slot -Better OS with built in web browser and support for mp3s, photos downloads -Introduce DS channels like the wii -Support VC games (well up to megadrive and snes at least) as well as classic gameboy and GB advanced games -Of course it would be BC with current DS Make it so Ninty. EDIT: Oh yeah, and better shoulder buttons. I can't get my fat sausage fingers round the ones on the lite.
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andywilkie35
27/08/08 @ 12:28
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I bought a DS and I've barely played it, same as my PSP, I don't like sitting at home playing it when I've got superior consoles to play, and I don't play it when I travel coz I walk to work, so feel i've wasted loads of money!! oh well
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Agent_Orange
27/08/08 @ 12:35
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Andy, so true - and you can't play 'em on the commute to work in summer 'cos it's too bright most of the time
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Triggerhappytel
27/08/08 @ 13:30
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andywilkie - you've pretty much summed up why I have never seen the point in personally getting a DS/PSP: I have always driven to work and rarely use public transport, and don't ever play handhelds at home when I've got superior consoles under the TV.
Although I'd love a PSP for holidays, I can't justify the expense for so little return. |
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thesombrerokid
27/08/08 @ 13:35
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@SeesThroughAll
ehh naw i want to play original high quality games on my hand held not tetris clones and quake ports :P |
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neonemesis
27/08/08 @ 13:50
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How much more expensive would a DS with two touch screens be though? One of the original appealing factors of the DS when it came out was its price compared with the PSP...
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My personal feature wants:
-Gamecube level CPU/GPU performance -2 screens, same as DS1 but the TS is now multi touch -internal and/or expandable memory -Some kind of frontend llke the Wii channels, with VC, internet, photos and music. Possibly movie playback. -built in rumble and tilt/motion sensing similar to Wario Ware Twisted -Expanded VC Support, i.e. all current home console VC titles as well as handheld ones, e.g. Gameboy, Gamegear, PC Engine, Lynx etc... -Decent speakers -Metal stylus
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BadBoyBonner
27/08/08 @ 13:56
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DS would be so much more comfortable if the controls were on the upper screen - balance would be perfect - currently it seems like some sort of cynical marketing ploy for an as yet unreleased arthritis removing hand cream.
Playing Mario Kart for any length of time is positively crippling. Would be very easy to make old ds backward compatible with new double touch-screen DS games - simply use select to swap the screen round and then back - some games already use this to effectively give you two touch screens. Hard to imagine an update of the DS not incorporating tilt sensing,better screen resolution, texture filtering and anti-aliasing; which may also breath new life in to the odd old game with it no doubt being BC.
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BadBoyBonner
27/08/08 @ 15:45
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@thesombrerokid
I know it does - as you can see me talking about it in Nanostray 2 in the GTA china Town news - saying how it makes the DS screen look like it is running in Hi-res. I'll qualify the sound-bite, anti-aliasing x4 with almost no hit to system performance. Link below for my GTA China Town comments talking about anti-aliasing. http://www.eurogamer.net/article_discuss... |
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The DS is a wonderful machine, and is indeed geared towards on-the-go gaming more than the PSP (which is just a touch-less iPod), but its lack of power and features are appalling. And the upper screen should have been bigger. And there's thing with devs not putting enough creativity into their titles, but it's still a step above the Portable PS2 (I love my PS2 but I wouldn't take it with me on the road!).
A slimmer DS would be awesome. |
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I think the ds2 would benefit from a multi-touch screen so it can register where ALL your fingers are... yadda yadda
"I've never particularly seen the appeal of the DS. Bar a few appealing games I don't see what it have over the PSP to have created such a huge chasm in the comparative sales figures." Simple... Games |
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Stepharneo
27/08/08 @ 21:35
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two touchscreens would be nice if only to get rid of that thing that happens in unpolished games like pokemon (don't get me wrong i loved it, but there are so many tiny flaws that could be remedied in 10 minutes by a focus group) where you do something on the bottom screen (in pokemons case it would be teh pokemon team menu) then that menu moves to the top screen in say a fight and you go to touch the top screen, instantly feeling like a complete twat and glad no one is watching. i mean basically its just that, also it would mean that touch screen functionality would have to be crammed into one screen and devs could be more free with usage. but surely the hinge would need to be a great deal better as the screen would just keep on moving as you hit the screen.
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Full backwards compatibility, internal storage with a VC for all games gone before on GB(C)/GBA and link up for multi on said old games too, and for GC. So basically a GBA out port for GB(A)s and GC; but replicating it over wifi for DS2 to DS2 would be win too.
And analogue control. SM64 DS would have been worth getting over the original if it actually had REAL analogue control. JonFE 27-Aug-08 11:49:02 I think two touch screens will be an overkill... I mean how many people can usefully use two styli (or should that be styluses) at the same time? The only implementation I can think of would have to be thumb-based... /is not great at imaging things like that... Yeah, I think it would be more like, being able to touch either screen - not both simultaneously. /facepalm I don't think it'll happen though. It's selling like hotcakes. Nintendo would have to be moronic to do that.
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-Some kind of frontend llke the Wii channels, with VC, internet, photos and music. Possibly movie playback.
-built in rumble and tilt/motion sensing similar to Wario Ware Twisted -Tilt sensing (a la iPhone) -Better OS with built in web browser and support for mp3s, photos downloads -Introduce DS channels like the wii Why do people keep saying shit like this? Do that and the DS will turn into a steaming pile of casual ONLY shite like the Wii, except instead of waggle we'll have jiggle 'cos of tilt. Nonononono. And who needs a thinner DS? Is it not fucking small enough already? Do you all have pixie hands? The Lite may look better but the phat is more comfortable anyway. It's like the world is obsessed with small ATM. IT'S PLENTY SMALL ANYWAY. "DS2 - so small it comes with a microscope so you can enjoy all your games on an even smaller console than before - only 3 atoms wide!" I'm not really fussed about graphics. I'd quite happily still have games coming on the N64 TBH. As long as it can do 3D, I'm happy. |
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