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Nintendo DS Gets Sleeker Final Design, Same Name
Ravi Hiranand writes "Nintendo has announced the final name of their Nintendo DS handheld, and it will be called... Nintendo DS. The final design of the system is viewable on their official site (screenshot) - looks sleeker and far less chunky, but still a bit awkward. There's also an English-language press release full of waffly language, but the only things you need to know are that there are 120 DS games in development (20 from Nintendo) and that the price, release date and launch lineup will be announced later."
...because two screens are clearly superior to one screen. Logically, this machine must be exactly twice as much fun as a handheld game with only one screen.
I can barely control my excitement, because it is a given that Nintendo will eventually release the QS with four screens. That amount of fun is sure to explode the heads of children and the elderly.
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From the press release:
The retooled Nintendo DS features a thinner, black base and an angular platinum flip-top cover.
Damn, Nintendo, really shooting for the luxery market with this one, huh? Hoping people will assume it's better than the PSP because it has twice the screens and ten times the price? ;)
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Platinum? Sheesh. They are going for the top end of the market, aren't they?
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...dang, that looks like a 1980s donkeykong handheld (scroll down)
is that clearly, Nintendo is incorporating a George Foreman grill into this newly-redesigned DS, judging by these photos. How can you lose... I can pretty much always go for a burger, and with this new handheld, I can grill myself one on the go, while playing DS and GBA games!
Seriously, though. I mean, the closed-shell picture of the DS might as well have been straight off the george foreman box. They're friggin identical.
You all just wait. Give it a week or two... we'll get a press release confirming my suspicions.
I had problems fitting things into my pocket, too. The trick, see, is to have your penis removed.
In all seriousness, though, I agree. It's a bit larger than I was expecting, but so is the PSP, so I guess we'll just all have to wait and see what kind of library each system is going to boast. Personally, I'm not all that excited for the DS. My Advance SP does me just fine as it is now, and unless I try a DS upon release and it just completely blows me away, I won't be in any rush to buy it anytime soon. I do give props to Nintendo for innovating, even if everyone else claims this is just a technologically souped-up rehash of those horrid Game & Watch things...
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Is it me, or did it just get fatter in here?
Aw heck why even pretend. I'm gonna buy one the day it comes out.
Best part is, I have a son who loves his gameboy, so I don't even have to admit it's for me when I buy it.
I have no idea what ninetendo's overall financial situation is like, but it's sure easy to picture them placing an order for a printing press to mint their own greenbacks, just to cut out the middleman.