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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."

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  1. Gameboy DS is a misnomer by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Informative

    Calling the new DS "Gameboy DS" is incorrect. The GameBoy line of portables ended with the GameBoy Advance. The DS is known simply as the "Nintendo DS".

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    1. Re:Gameboy DS is a misnomer by Ironchew · · Score: 5, Interesting

      They threw Game Boy Advance backwards compatibility in there, though. If they were trying to call it something besides a Game Boy (successor), they sure stirred up a lot of confusion with that move.

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

    Hopefully that means WPA capability (finally...)

  3. 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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  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.

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

    taco, you sound like my mother.

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  8. Re:To be honest... by tepples · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know there is a homebrew group of people who are working on such things, but it seems like another giant pain. I don't have time to tinker.

    You don't have to tinker much to run homebrew:

    1. Go to dealextreme.com or another online electronics store carrying DS homebrew accessories.
    2. Buy a CycloDS Evolution, M3 Real, or other microSD-to-DS adapter. These are the size of a DS Game Card, and they usually come bundled with a microSD writer. You'll also need to buy a 2 GB microSD card.
    3. Download homebrew apps and unzip them to the microSD card.
    4. Put the microSD card in the DS adapter, put the adapter in the DS, and power on.

    As far as anyone can tell, this rumored product is Nintendo's attempt to kill the market for microSD adapters that are also capable of running unlawful copies of DS games.

  9. Nintendo have already replied to the rumor by AndyboyH · · Score: 5, Informative

    with a 'no comment' style reply, here:
    http://kotaku.com/5056082/nintendo-on-that-new-ds-rumor

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

    That's not racist.

    It's riceist.