Nintendo's Busy Week

GameDev.net has a wrap-up from Nintendo's busy week. They touch on the release of development kits, production delays for the DS Lite, and the ongoing DS vs. PSP war. From the article: "It seems Nintendo, who have in the past tended to rely heavily on first-party games, are eager to elicit support from third-party developers. According to some big-name developers who have had their kits for some time there have already been several versions of the kit: the first was just the console and a wired controller, while the second had a few minor tweaks and the third a boost in CPU power."

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All those new and better controllers are nice.....

[Kn1nJa]

But nothing beats the ol' 8 button NES gamepad! http://www.retrousb.com/

xbox sales :)

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe I'm just a jerk, but nothing makes me smile more than the Xbox's Japanese sales figures. From TFA:

        * Nintendo DS: 52,099 (403,901)

        * Sony PSP: 27,430 (337,682)

        * Game Boy Advance SP: 5553 (57,890)

        * Game Boy Micro: 2941 (35,529)

        * Game Boy Advance: 105 (1584)

        * PS2: 23,433 (241,273)

        * GC: 1814 (32,392)

        * Xbox 360: 1314 (23,971)

        * Xbox: 92 (762)

Re:All those new and better controllers are nice..

[nmaster64]

Try turning the Revolution controller on it's side...

http://www.vidaextra.com/images/revones.jpg

Revolution More Powerful than First Thought

[Physician]

From TA: "Software houses say that architecturally the system is very similar to the GameCube but roughly twice as powerful. One source elaborates, "At first, we were discouraged that it would be less powerful than Xbox 360, but once we got everything working with the controller, our concerns faded"."