Rare Working On The Nintendo DS

Sean O'Neill writes "Ken Lobb mentioned to a GCAdvanced writer that Rare is already working on titles for the Nintendo DS. "After him mentioning that, I began to speak to him about the Nintendo DS. He loves the DS and confirmed with me that Rare does have DS development kits and that two titles are in the works for the DS."

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Not just DS titles, either

[iainl]

According to this month's Edge, Diddy Kong Pilot for the GBA has been resurrected post Nintendo-split as Banjo Pilot.

So its definitely looking like we're on target to see more Rare releases on Nintendo hardware this year than we are Microsoft (with GBA Sabre Wulf already on shelves). Oops.

Re:Plasticky

[Naffer]

You know, originally I thought that the PSP was the most awesome handheald ever for being able to play movies.
Then it occured to me, the UMD is not going to be a writable media and any movie you're going to play on it is going to be purchased. That means I don't get to toss my divx movies onto my handheld and watch them while waiting in the dentist office. The PSP won't be the new walkman without a harddrive or writable media, maybe the new gameboy, but not the walkman.

Re:Check out this picture!

[KDR_11k]

What's the problem with that? If someone else designed that G&W, that might mean something, but it's a design by Nintendo. People don't complain about the Gamecube being built in a 4 controller, 2-memory cards, top loading drive standard fashion, why complain about the layout of the DS?

The G&W didn't use the screens in the same way the DS does, the G&W's screens were just extensions of the playing field and essentially one big screen split up for cost and portability reasons, for the DS one screen is a touchscreen and since they're real screens, not those pre-printed LCD screens, they can be used for many different things.

Also, part of the innovation in the DS are the new means of control, which cleary weren't present on the Game and Watch series.

Well, if you think it's bad the device has roughly the same shape as a really old machine that's not even close to the same ballpark, how would you have designed the sysem instead? Make the top part smaller for no apparent reason, or what?