[Rumor]new DS Widescreen is coming April 2009: IGN

[Defiance]

I, personally, would like to have a DS with better graphics + a widescreen... And if you put regular DS games in, i could just shrink the size to what the normal DS games are like. Although, I think for the next handheld, Nintendo is going to use mini DVDs because of piracy.

 

[DeMoN]

Nintendo is too busy bathing in their money to make a new DS for us.

 

[skyman113]

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[alex]

I, personally, would like to have a DS with better graphics + a widescreen... And if you put regular DS games in, i could just shrink the size to what the normal DS games are like. Although, I think for the next handheld, Nintendo is going to use mini DVDs because of piracy.

REALLY mini-DVDs. Like UMD size or smaller.
And then you need to have some way to save files.(Nintendo does internal storage I bet, maybe a memory card, *coughPSPcough* and somehow it will be hacked.
You can't stop piracy forever.

 

[Prime]

I think they should just stop and leave it at the DS Lite.

No need for more.

 

[CockroachMan]

I, personally, would like to have a DS with better graphics + a widescreen... And if you put regular DS games in, i could just shrink the size to what the normal DS games are like. Although, I think for the next handheld, Nintendo is going to use mini DVDs because of piracy.

REALLY mini-DVDs. Like UMD size or smaller.
And then you need to have some way to save files.(Nintendo does internal storage I bet, maybe a memory card, *coughPSPcough* and somehow it will be hacked.
You can't stop piracy forever.

Not sure if optical media is worth it anymore.. flash memory has gotten so cheap these days.. anyway, you can't stop piracy

 

[Doomsday Forte]

I think they should just stop and leave it at the DS Lite.

No need for more.

At least for the DS series. Whatever comes next, they can do fuck-all with it.

 

[spearman792]

For a few reasons posted on these forums (Lack of good first party games coming out, and a slow of sales in Japan) I think, there will be a new Nintendo portable gaming device. Notice how I didn't say DS. It's bee a good long time since a new handheld has come out (2.5 years for lite and almost 4 since the original phat). But it has to be about time for something new and not just in the sense of a new DS, it will be something not really seen in gaming before like the wii's motion controls and the DS's touch screen. There's no real way to find out what this new handheld will be though until, like IGN said, a big convention in the Spring or later because Nintendo won't want to lose money on the DS lites they could sell during the holiday season.

Wow, long post! haha

 

[Jordan10la]

I hope it has a collapsible analogue stick instead of the ass D pad thing this time.
GTFO. It's bad a enough they made bad buttons for the lite. It'sreason I refuse to upgrade from the awesome phat. I mean it's fine until I see my cousins screen com[ared to mine.
QUOTE(xcdjy @ Sep 6 2008, 01:47 PM) Widescreen would be nice, but there's nothing wrong with the current DS lite. I don't see it happening, at least, not for a long time.

See above

Also I see no need for a new DS or Nintendo handheld. Just maybe some more worthwhile games for the current DS.

 

[shakirmoledina]

i dont think it is worth it but maybe something new is also there not mentioned like a camera like eyetoy or better microphone etc
Screens - Dual Touch - Not so worth it

 

[thieves like us]

my thoughts are that when they get around to releasing the 3rd incarnation, I would like to see the following changes (although these aren't necessarily what nintendo will do).

- widescreen displays (more real estate = high resolution). just like game boy advance > game boy color backwards compatibilty, older ds titles would display with vertical black bars on the left and right (just like widescreen televisions do when displaying
- increase the resolution of the screens from 256x192 to 576x384. this would double the existing screen resolution (while also increasing the horizontal resolution to accommodate for the 16:9 aspect ratio change). original ds titles would display in double-size pixel mode and look no different than they do on today's hardware, however newer generation titles would have 2x the resolution.

- change the d-pad controller to something similar to the max analog solution that nintendo made available for the nes systems. this would give the ds a similiar analog solution that the psp has.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Nesmax.jpg


I can't see NCL/NOA going to a buttonless solution, because the current touchscreen technology does not allow for multiple contact points from being indentified (at least at a reasonable cost).

 

[R2DJ]

I would buy a new DS if it will have a stylus with a soft tip (like cotton buds) that can be cleaned once in a while and WPA support. Those are the things that I only care about. I'm fine with the screen.

 

[diablow2000]

DS is (or more likely, was) a "third pillar". Maybe a new Gameboy will be released? With bigger screen, better graphics and longer battery life it could compete with PSP (or maybe even PSP2).
Digital distribution (downloadable games) like in WiiShop would be a cool feature for new handheld. Games would be cheaper, because there will be no need for cartridges.

 

[the_skdster]

This is whats gonna happen, hopefully.
Still regular bottom touch-screen.
Upper screen will be bigger and WIDESCREEN! whoot!