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New Nintendo DS to Include Camera, Music

BobB-nw writes "Watch out Apple, here comes Nintendo. Nintendo plans to launch a new version of its popular DS portable gaming device with a camera and music player function, according to a report in the Sunday edition of The Nikkei Business Daily. The new version will have better wireless capability for connecting to the Internet and will cost under $189, the report said. It will be offered first in Japan, it said. The DS first went on sale in 2004, and a second version, called the DS Lite, debuted two years later in 2006. Both have sold extremely well, with worldwide sales of the DS products at 77.5 million units as of the end of June this year."

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  1. Everything has an MP3 Player by Aetuneo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Any piece of technology will advance until it has an MP3 player function. This includes household appliances, and, apparently, the DS.

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    1. Re:Everything has an MP3 Player by DreamerFi · · Score: 4, Funny

      Except for the Zune.

    2. Re:Everything has an MP3 Player by AioKits · · Score: 5, Funny

      I can't wait for the MP3 Blender. Then I can have it play You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) while I blend!

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    3. Re:Everything has an MP3 Player by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Can my fire detector play Disco Inferno? "Burn baby burn - Disco Inferno! Buuurn baby burn!"

  2. Don't stop there... by argent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Any piece of technology will advance until it has an MP3 player function.

    And can send email, and run Linux.

    1. Re:Don't stop there... by lju · · Score: 0, Funny

      Not to mention the possibility of having a beowulf cluster of them...

    2. Re:Don't stop there... by LoverOfJoy · · Score: 2, Funny

      And an NES emulator

  3. Re:Cool by Loibisch · · Score: 5, Funny

    [...] they all cite the same source: Nikkei Business Daily. No one has yet independently confirmed this. So take it with a very large grain of salt.

    Or considering the source maybe even a grain of rice.

  4. Gameboy DS? by dancingmad · · Score: 5, Funny

    taco, you sound like my mother.

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  5. Re:Gameboy DS is a misnomer by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 4, Funny

    GameBoy Advance begat GameBoy Advance SP, which begat GameBoy Micro...

    from the Book of Nintendo, 1:17.

  6. Re:Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's not racist.

    It's riceist.

  7. Re:Cool by thetoadwarrior · · Score: 2, Funny

    I chink you don't understand how a PC thug works.