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| Nintendo finalise the DS console design |
| Wednesday, July 28, 2004 at 14:47 by Craig Beaumont |
What a difference a few months makes. Looking sharper, sleeker and a great deal more shiny than the prototype that was shown at E3, Nintendo have today revealed the final design for the Nintendo DS with which intends to upstage Sony's PSP handheld.
The Nintendo DS, which was originally chosen as a code name for the handheld, has been chosen to be kept as the official name due to consumers already identifying that the DS means Dual Screen.
It is now much thinner with an angular platinum flip-top cover, the buttons have been increased in size and the shoulder buttons have been moved to a more optimum position. As the device has a touch screen, a new storage slot has been added to store the screen stylus and stereo speakers have been mounted aside the screen and now play stereo with or without headphones.
Satoru Iwata, the president of Nintendo, was modest about the expectations of the new device:
"The Nintendo DS will change the future of hand-held gaming.
Dual screens, chat functions, a touch screen, wireless capabilities, voice recognition these abilities surpass anything attempted before, and consumers will benefit from the creativity and innovation the new features bring to the world of video games."
It may be innovative, but it's games that sell consoles and Nintendo claims that in excess of 100 software companies have signed up to create games for the system, with over 120 DS games currently in development, with Nintendo adding more than 20 titles itself to this number.
Nintendo look as if they've taken the criticism on board, made the necessary adjustments and is now ready for when the handheld battle begins.
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| man i already got a DS pre-orderd so now i know what a great machine im getting and this even looks way better then the PSP |
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| woootz . .I am an avid nintendo fan myself. I got a GBA, gameboy, nes and snes at home. |
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| Ya should let us know the relece date. |
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| The release date is still the subject of speculation and guess work. Some say this year, some say next year. The current one is 15th March 2005 in US and Europe as previously reported here http://itvibe.com/default.aspx?NewsID=2548
I'll just repeat what Nintendo have said:
"Nintendo will announce the launch date, price and game lineup for Nintendo DS at a later date."
Always keep thier cards close to thier chests :) |
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Yeah DS design much better now
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| Sure it looks cool, and I'm going to get one, I just still think there's too much unused space. |
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| the ds is very very very good game i told 21 of my friend about it they told me we all want to buy iit it is best game in world number 1 they are very happy. my name is abdulla zayed :) |
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| Nintendo DS = kiddy old games and uses unneccesary functions (touch screen, voice recognition, stylus, to make up for poor performance :)
!!!!!!!!!!!!Sony PSP all the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Greetz Nick ;) |
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| I hope they don't inplement the voice recognition into games. It will cause the games to lose their physical interaction and fun factor. Everything else, the dual screens, wireless capabilities, and touch screen, are great ideas. |
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