VERY VERY good point! Increasing screen size and keeping res is going to be a disaster. Already the DS doesn't filter its textures so they're all square-ish just what we need more pixels! =\chiseen said:
They've changed the firmware, it'd be stupid to not block the current carts but they'd have to retain backwards compatibility so the cart encryption should be the sametinymonkeyt said:
Convergent devices. People don't like having to carry 6 different devices to do different thingsgrubbymitts said:I wonder if publishers will go down the route of the Super Gameboy for the SNES? What I mean is will they release one cartridge that works fine for the DS but if you stick it in the DSi it uses the other functions/enhances. And we all know how well the Super Gameboy did [/sarcasm]
Really, if this doesn't include better graphics what's the point? Two touch screens and a couple of cameras? Who cares about that?
If it ain't broke then don't fix it. Nintendo doesn't need to include better graphics, they focus on gameplay and this is exactly why the DS and its predecessors have beaten and outsold every portable console before it
Cant they make something that justplays games these days?Doctor Luigi said:Well if you look at the Nintendo Japan website it seems to have a red light coming out of it... maybe some kind of red eye reduction perhaps oO?lilkerv90210 said:u can call people with this??????????????????????????/
If you have a flash cart with SvSIP downloaded on it (and flash carts still work) you can.
Seems like a possibility, they'd just have to add Skype or something
QUOTE(blizzak @ Oct 2 2008, 03:40 PM) ALso, if anyone knows, or can give a guess what the black circle on the hinge between the two screens? there a smaller hole i assuem to be a mic. I believe it's a camera, for webcam-like purposes...
QUOTE(Sir-Fritz @ Oct 2 2008, 03:43 PM)
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It would be neat to put your games into the internal memory instead of carrying around several carts. Thats why some people buy flashcarts...beedog19 said:I read somewhere buried in the kotaku comments that the internal memory is 4Gb. If so, 1, why is Nintendo STILL using bits, and 2, where are they getting all of this 512 MB memory? Who still is mass producing this stuff?
Who cares if they're using bits, other companies use bits too, its an international standard.
I REALLY hope that Nintendo isn't dumb enough to remove the game playing element from this system and make it download only. If so there would be NO WAY anyone should really consider this an "upgrade" since none of the games that you own would actually work.Renegade_R said:I'm glad there's only one touch-screen still...if there was two, it would call for a new medium which would hinder the piracy initiative.
Newsflash people...it is more than likely that your R4DS and TopToys and whatevers they are called will still work in the new DS because it is using the same medium and hence, is using the same method of execution to get the code from the card to boot. If they implemented a new type of protection, it would not be compatible with all the DS games out there. Unfortunately for Nintendo, they cannot change the architecture just yet.
Not sure how two touchscreens is a new medium that would prevent you from running backups. A ROM dump is a ROM dump. Nintendo's pretty smart, maybe they came up with a way to detect flashcarts
thats what im wonderingretiredjerk said:this thing is pretty gay if you already have a DS lite. it all seems so gimmicky.im honestly very surprised they are adding an SD slot and releasing this now when the DS lite is selling well. The SD slot could backfire on them and open the floodgates to piracy but im guessing if it is hacked it will be a back and forth fight like with the PSP and the constant firmware updates.
I just think they see huge potential in making money off nintendo points. I think the wii showed them just how much people are willing to pay for classics or new downloadable games. so basically if it gets hacked, who cares!?, they'll make a killing on downloaded content.
knowing nintendo this thing will be hacked and we'll all be playing .nds from the SD slot by 09. although personallyi hope the SD slot never gets hacked, but i hope our EDGE's and R4's work.
If you can't beat them, join them. If theres no need to make flashcarts that would put all of the manufacturers out of business.
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beedog19 said:bangbanger said:PharaohsVizier said:I hope they made the brightness levels a physical button and not some crappy menu crap.
Maybe that is what the button on the system is. Because why go from a switch on like every system to a button you might press off when you are playing. That would truely suck. Unless you have to hold it down for x ammount of seconds but still would suck.
I guess that could be and they could have just put the switch on the other side. That being said, I still think that's a power button.
The switch relies on a spring and is prone to getting dust and other crap in it (I know I got pear into mine from it sitting in my bag). Push button is much more reliable
ViRGE said:Seriously, would it have killed Nintendo to do a proper DS upgrade instead of dragging out the DS hardware another 2+ years? The DS's 3D abilities were underpowered at launch, and it's only gotten worse over time. The hardware has nudged developers in to producing RPGs, minigame collections, shovelware, and very little else, because the DS can do very little else. It needs a hardware upgrade to enable new games and bring more variety to the field.
Adding more gimmicks isn't going to encourage new games, it's just going to encourage more crap.
The bigger screen and SD slot are nice, but it's half the handheld it needs to be.
Each Gameboy except the Color has had three iterations. This would be the third and final. Hell even the PSP is going to have its iteration. I wonder if people complained about the GameBoy Light in Japan when it came out. It only added a backlight
jos7960 said:Doesnt the SD slot open a possible solution to GBA emulation?
Or maybe the DSware you can download will feature some GBA games. Just like the Wii features NES SNES and N64 games. So maybe we can inject own gba roms into the DSware!
Speculationspeculation
But if happends, then i MIGHT get one.
Maybe they'll add GBA games in VirtualChannel. Then you could use your Wii to download the games onto the SD card and play them on your DSi.
Posts mergedno ds card slot, just msd slot? =(beedog19 said:
-another world
wish there where more pics of the back...
Edit: No worries, check out the video and you can clearly see slot-1 when they rotate the system. Put down your pitchforks, no one's storming the Nintendo Castle tonight.
They'd have to change the wifi chip. Costs too much money, might as well use their stockpile of DS/DSL wifi chipskirby145 said:-Downloadable games
-SD Slot
It is as if Nintendo enjoys piracy and wants to increase the amount of people doing it.
It might be asking for it but downloadable games and an SD slot does open more possibilities... Nintendo aren't stupid, they're not going to put random things into the console which they think won't sell. A coffee maker would be great but it wouldn't be feasible or remotely relevant
yeah you didnt get it...falcon64z8 said:Why the hell nintendo didn't show all of this at E3???
Because then it would be ages away until launch and the hype would have died down
OH NOES! Teh h@ckers are trying to get you. Better turn on the WPA's!wackygoose said:
i wont give a shit about security... but almost all places that i go and have a "free internet zone" or something like that... only support WPA
oh yeah and at University i cant put my DS online because of the FUCKING OLD WEP... i know if i go to the Router i can change that but would they liste to me? would they modify their settings just to let me play Mario Kart online? i dont think so
Renegade_R said:
I'm sure it Activision are happy enough being able to sell the GH games to the millions of DS owners already, and now they can release a new add on, if its possible.KendoKhan said:
im starting to think i should have bought an PSP and wait for something like DS2Searinox said:- No GBA Slot
Okay is it NOW time for someone to write a slot-1 GBA emulator??? Actually why am I even calling it slot-1 since there's no more slot-2? And how the hell do ya use the DS browser if there's no GBA slot?
Bigger screens YAY! But seriously, no improved hardware?! We're just gonna have the same old graphics?
Ediblebird: There is not going to be WPA support as long as they don't plan to update the damn hardware. There is not enough processing power to play a game wifi and have it encrypt WPA at the same time, which is just another reason for me to be pissed at them.
Yeah the webcam's nice. Media storage. Woo! Now that solved alot of problems. I'm severely disappointed that there is no hardware improvements and that they took out the GBA slot. WHAT WERE THEY THINKING???
