Gaming DS2 and the Future of Hacking?

[gillman]

Needs more buttons

 

[dogman]

nintendo has always worked in pairs:

NES had the game boy.
SNES had the super game boy compatible games (first colors for a game boy).
N64 had the GBC games (First pokemon stadium)
NGC had the game boy advance (FFCC, Metroid prime, pokemon)
Wii has the NDS (pokemon, galaxy wars..)

If they release a new console, i think it would be a handheld with new stuff and everything else. But the Wii has had the NDS for only a year and a half. My guess is that it's too soon to release the next handheld, maybe next year

 

[GeekyGuy]

nintendo has always worked in pairs...

If they release a new console, i think it would be a handheld with new stuff and everything else. But the Wii has had the NDS for only a year and a half. My guess is that it's too soon to release the next handheld, maybe next year

Interesting notion. Not sure if that's enough to keep them sticking with the DS as is, though. Companies like Square Enix are still willing to make fairly big-budget titles for the DS, so there's still money to be made, obviously, despite piracy. But there's more money to be made, I think, from a system that would allow players to download content at a cost. And of course, there's more money to be made when more folks are forced to buy the product, as opposed to simply downloading it.

I don't know, though...with the recession the U.S. is certainly in, it will affect everyone globally. Will that sway Nintendo's decision to try and put a new system out? Perhaps. But even if they teased it next week, I doubt we'd see it until at least Q2 of next year.

Either way, piracy definitely seems to be a big issue for Nintendo right now. Their actions in the last year have shown that they are aggressively trying to stem the tide. I'm just wondering what we might be in store for in that respect with the next generation of DS.

 

[.TakaM]

if its going to have built-in storage, i guess there's no need for flash carts, something like the memory stick on a psp running an iso would be the easiest thing to do.

nintendo and built in storage isn't a very promising prospect...
believe it or not, the wii has "built in storage"

Whatever nintendo does, It should be hacked within the first 3 years, and I've always been fine with waiting that long.

 

[Diablo1123]

nintendo has always worked in pairs:

NES had the game boy.
SNES had the super game boy compatible games (first colors for a game boy).
N64 had the GBC games (First pokemon stadium)
NGC had the game boy advance (FFCC, Metroid prime, pokemon)
Wii has the NDS (pokemon, galaxy wars..)

If they release a new console, i think it would be a handheld with new stuff and everything else. But the Wii has had the NDS for only a year and a half. My guess is that it's too soon to release the next handheld, maybe next year

Got a point there!
Espeically as there are still a few good upcoming DS games
or alot

 

[Ballistic]

Going a little offtrack on the matter being discussed, but...I wish so goddamn hard the DS2 (if there's going to be any that is) looks like this:
The DS shown is fake, if you didn't figure it out yet.

 

[jan777]

still two screens?

why thye hell is the analog stick in the top of the directinal button?

PS i know it is fake, i already saw it from valentine dpg last year

 

[dilav]

Well, if its a DS (double screen) it should have 2 screen. pocket mode seems like it will make the ds too thick to put in a pocket, or if its not too thick, then the ds would be thin and hard to play. in my opinion its a nice remade of a ds, but it wouldn't be a 2. it would be like a ds pocket. also farfet has a really good point.

 

[thedicemaster]

Well, if its a DS (double screen) it should have 2 screen. pocket mode seems like it will make the ds too thick to put in a pocket, or if its not too thick, then the ds would be thin and hard to play. in my opinion its a nice remade of a ds, but it wouldn't be a 2. it would be like a ds pocket. also farfet has a really good point.

more correct would be a nintendo DS SP.
it's quite obviously based on the GBA SP design.
it actually does look like one that CAN be made, and it fixes the hinges problem.(did anyone ever manage to break GBA SP hinges by normal use?)

 

[Fieryshadowz]

Well, if its a DS (double screen) it should have 2 screen. pocket mode seems like it will make the ds too thick to put in a pocket, or if its not too thick, then the ds would be thin and hard to play. in my opinion its a nice remade of a ds, but it wouldn't be a 2. it would be like a ds pocket. also farfet has a really good point.

more correct would be a nintendo DS SP.
it's quite obviously based on the GBA SP design.
it actually does look like one that CAN be made, and it fixes the hinges problem.(did anyone ever manage to break GBA SP hinges by normal use?)

No, but look at how the outer edges fold, the one with the D pad and ABXY buttons. . . those look like it will be on the bottom thus meaning it will have a lot of contact, when stored. So faster possible, wear and tear of the buttons rendering it broken perhaps? (not like that model is even a concept from Nintendo anyways)

 

[Private|Par]

I don't think Nintendo will release a new DS, especially at the rate they're selling the DS Lite at. Why introduce a new handheld when the current one is doing so well?

 

[DarkLG]

Private|Parts is right the ds lite is doing real good why make a new redesign?Maybe next year but not in 08.

 

[jan777]

they really dont need to redesign the ds

just make more games that takes advantage of its limits

 

[DarkLG]

Ya your right we need more better games.Please let there be a New Super Mario Bros 2!!!

 

[Kaan]

all i hope for is better graphics and better wifi and MORE WIFI for games
The ds2 could look exactly like the old DS but if it has more power for games like the PSP has and better wifi as in we could finally be able to chat with our enemies :/ ( without stupid friend codes needed damnit!) and more wifi, meaning, that games which would be perfect for wifi actually would have Wifi!

Oh and make some RTS games ala AoE. RTS meaning, that there are no turns...

 

[ryuragnas]

What I want is support for WPA encryption, so that I can play the new model without lowering my security setting. Wouldn't it be nice?

 

[Raestloz]

NDS2, I think it will be pretty easy to be pirated, as long as somebody, somewhere, somehow, has the right amount of patience, material, and utilities

Edit: I mean, look at how fast they cracked Blu-Ray's Security

 

[Batman55]

I just hope it's as easy as buying a cart off the internet

I was amazed when I found out that there was no modding or hacking required when I found my M3 Simply DS.

Also, I think that now that Nintendo has competition, they will have to release DS 2 when PSP 2 comes out, and there are still many games being developed for both systems. If they were to announce a new handheld, it would come out late/mid 09 because of the games that developers are working on.

 

[Raestloz]

DS will stay still for a pretty long time, I'm sure.

 

[VmprHntrD]

Unless Nintendo wants to show off on their own terms expect a new handheld at the show. It's a double screen setup again, wide screen, will play old DS games too, will not have a GBA slot, and will have its own new games as it's a good upgrade. The system will have an all new type of anti-theft type devices in play that will set things back a bit, but for how long no idea.

That's what I'm banking on seeing.