Could a new Nintendo DS show up at E3?
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Posted April 14th, 2008 at 11:05pm
by Corey Tamas
Shacknews is careful to underline the word “RUMOR” in red grease pencil, but they make some interesting observations about the possibility of Nintendo refreshing the product line of its superzowiekabloom popular handheld gaming device, the DS. Sales are still very strong world-wide for the unit, but no major product revisions since the DS lite was introduced have arrived (and most gamers consider that to be more of a “fix” than a new version of the device). Shacknews notes that Hirokazu Hamamura, president of a Japanese magazine publisher called Enterbrain, has made some comments which raise the question about what Nintendo has up its sleeve for E3 this year:
According to Bloomberg Japan, Hamamura noted his belief that Nintendo could unveil a new DS at E3 this year, which runs from July 15-17.It was unclear if he was referring to a simple redesign or an actual new dual-screened platform. Given that the system regularly tops sales charts in North America and Japan, a revised version of the existing hardware would be the most logical assumption.
Enterbrain is generally regarded as the magazine in the know, and so when Hamamura speculates, people listen. Nintendo (naturally) had no comment on the matter.
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Armstrong14
April 15th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
You know, I would love to see a new-and-improved Nintendo DS… If it’s really that much better. I already own a DS Lite, and am content with finally starting to play Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (which I’ve owned since Dec.), but there are some things that I already have in mind that could be improved… My hopes would be that the new DS would have an Internet browser (and a messenger client) built into the memory of the DS, therefore giving it a tiny hard drive, as well as giving the connection range a “bit” more length for connecting to other people/wi-fi. I mean, the DS right now pwns (other than, you know, not having God Of War on it), as it’s getting Guitar Hero soon onto it, which I am extremely excited about and cannot wait for it to hit the shelves!
And I’m even more impressed with how they made the Guitar Hero frets (now 4 frets instead of 5; I mean who wants to slide their fingers down a DS and make it slip into the air like a bar of soap?! :P) fit into the GBA slot… There’s so much capability with Nintendo, but this will have been the second time they’ve released a more improved version of the DS, as I can remember how bad all my friends were when they found out their DS’ were going to be obsolite 
But my DS Lite was given to me, and, well, I’ve kind of wanted a second one, just so that my friends who don’t have a DS can play against me one-on-one! 
So if this is true, thanks a lot for the new DS, Nintendo, I’m sure it’ll be worth it!