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New Nintendo DS to Include Camera, Music

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the and-it-fits-in-the-palm-of-your-hand dept.

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."

3 of 261 comments (clear)

  1. Better wireless? by Chris+Pimlott · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hopefully that means WPA capability (finally...)

  2. Arrr 4 by tepples · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since it market does not appear to have slowed significantly or run into serious competition, why would they refresh the hardware?

    To reduce demand for R4, as I mentioned.

  3. Rumor lacking details by alvinrod · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think most of us saw this one coming, but the article is completely devoid of any information. First it's still just speculation that this is going to be the new announcement. For all any of us know it could be another new device to interact with the Wii. The only evidence the article even presents is that another news publication carried the rumor yesterday.

    There's no mention of how they're going to add music and make it easy to put music on the device. There's no details on the camera either or even if the physical dimensions of the DS are going to be further reduced. Wouldn't it have been better to wait until Thursday when the product is actually announced and all of the details are released?

    I don't mind a little speculation, but this had absolutely no substance to it at all. It's just a rumor repeated from another publication without anything of value added. Without the rest of the fluff about sales figures and release dates this article would have been one or two lines at most. What a complete waste of time.