Playing catch up with Nintendo is a bitch. They keep making a bunch of little game systems that roughly do the same thing, and I keep buying them.
DS -> DS Lite -> DSi -> DSi LL -> ???
There might even be something else in the works. Analyst Hiroshi Kamide from KBC Securities Japan thinks we should expect it next year. He's thinking that Nintendo's workings with Nvidia may make a 2010 launch for a new portable likely. "Next year, I still suspect there's a new handheld turning up," he told AP.
I guess if you don't count the hardware revisions, the DS is kind of long in the tooth. What's this new thing going to have? Three screens? No cartridge slots?
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2:20 PM on 10.29.2009
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You left out a D- it will be the DDDS, i.e. the DoubleDownDS.
Nintendo has found the way of doing it the Apple way.
This is why I no longer pretend to be surprised when they come out with a new version.
I'm fine with my DSi, don't need a DSi LL at all, so long as the "next gen" DSi plays the old DS/DSi games - which it likely will, I'm not bothered by it.
People upgrade their cell phones every other year or so, we get new computers every few years. Why is Nintendo always the bad guy for doing the same?
Oh right. This is the Internet. I keep forgetting.
The fact that DSiware isn't offering a portable virtual console, despite the undeniable popularity of various homebrews, is a testament to Nintendo currently having their finger far, far away from the pulse, jammed straight up their figurative collective ass.
Who wants a figurative collective chocolate covered pretzel?
Who said Nintendo was bad for doing this? Everyone loved the DS lite, people either cared about the DSi or didn't care at all, and I think everyone is excited about the new hardware, except for apparantly bobyoko, who, for some inexplicable reason, doesn't believe that it will have software.
100% agree.
It's more than official I'll stick with my old trustable DS-phat and wait if this upgrade is true.
Okay, I'll admit I love Nintendo's handhelds to hell and back, but even this is a bit much! If this is another DS revision, I'm going to...possibly rage and maybe complain about it to other people complaining about it on the Internet. And not buy it, obviously.
This better be something new and worth it, the DSi has been naught but a waste of money so far. I miss my DS Lite and its massive battery...
DSi ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXY
Or maybe it'll be the DS Micro. It'll come with a thumbtack-sized stylus.
-Release Mario game
-Release Zelda game
-Morph the fucking DS a bunch of times