We expected a glorious spray of Nintendo DS successor rumors after hearing that it would be, allegedly, revealed at GDC 2010. But while we haven't been assaulted, it doesn't mean more rumors haven't been uttered. For example, French Web site Game Kult is reporting, via unnamed sources, that devs have their hands on successor kits.
That should sound familiar. The original "DS 2" rumor had as much in it, but we're guessing -- and really this is all a fun guessing game -- that Game Kult's sources are a little further east than the original stories' sources. Either way, we'll still have to play the waiting game. GDC needs to happen, like, now or something.
La nouvelle DS dès cette année? [Game Kult]
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8:00 PM on 02.15.2010
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Also: motion control. I'm calling it.
I was wrong.
Besides, Nintendo has done dual screen gaming to death. I think we all know it's time for quad screen gameplay. The QSi.
Somewhere Miyamoto is reading your comment and is already on it.
"Whats better than 2 screens? How about 3?"
He probably has my name on a permanent feed so he can steal all my amazing ideas as I write them. Either that, or he is telepathic.
Actually, yeah, I'm going with that second one.
Multitouch, smudge resistant, both screens take up the majority of the handheld space, speakers behind the screens.
Can be used as an e-book reader as well. Hey, an e-book reader that actually LOOKS like a book? Ain't that a novelty!
OH SHIT, CHOPSTICK EMULATOR CONFIRMED!
Why kill off a product that is trouncing its competition and coming top in sales charts on a weekly basis? This wouldn't make much sense unless they plan to launch a premium handheld and keep the current model on the market.
Damn you Nintendo can't you just go away for 2 years if you keep humiliating the competition youll be competing against yourself in a few years.
Probably going to be more GC tech rehashed guts at best. Better touch screen with possible pressure sensitivity. Built in flash drive to store games dlc etc. DS cart backwards compatible. Draconian Nintendo development practices will still cut it below iPhone though, IMO.
Otherwise the iPhone'll take over.
I just don't fucking get it when people complain about new hardware coming out. New SKUs of the same device can get kind of annoying, I'll admit, but when there is brand new hardware on the horizon, hardware that will come 6 years after it's predecessor, you don't bitch about it.
@Cowboy TTop,
If Nintendo was REALLY feeling the pressure on the indie dev side of things with iPhone, there is a REALLY simple solution. Release the bleeding SDK, with a profit sharing system. But Nintendo won't do that for fear of two things.
1. DSiWare would suddenly become respectable and thus cut into brick and mortar sales.
2. They would no longer be the best publisher on their system.
Fact of the matter is DSiWare is in bad shape, has a bad storefront, and Nintendo fears nongaming applications despite putting out many themselves. The concept of quality control as a barrier to keep others out is a joke simply because many indie games means a renewed flood of crap, but are we REALLY be spared that anyway with mobile phone developers flooding the store and Nintendo breaking apart DS games to sell piecemeal? Of course the real reason why Nintendo doesn't release an SDK is the exact reason they made an example of a recent australian.
Piracy. Nintendo seems deathly afraid of it so much that they claimed they lost well over $1.2 in revenue thanks to Gamecube piracy. Yes, Gamecube piracy. If an SDK kit went out, it would validate the fear. Although R4 has already been doing that nicely but still, ANARCHY!
You are totally right, even that I love the DS, the idea of the true DS succesor is really exciting for me. For that reason, I don't understand why many people asume that the next succesor could be just the same hardware with a small upgrade, after all, there are rumors that this possible new handheld could have a tegra 2 processor.
I know its been a few years since the original DS launch. Time has just flown a bit fast with all the fun I've been having across formats. Scatch previous statement.
I totally agree that GDC is becoming a platform for extras and press smoozing, when it should be focusing on the developers butting heads on ideas etc. Nintendo of all companies do not need GDC to make such an announcement,and we'd all pay just as much attention to it.
Game Boy > Game Boy Pocket > Game Boy Light > Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advance > Game Boy Advance SP > Game Boy Micro
DS > DS Lite > DSi > DSiLL
Nintendo isn't "pulling and Apple" they were doing well before Apple ever did. And really, we tend to have steady upgrades to portable devices more often than things we use at home. Its why our cell phones are so slim now and not the clunky ones we had in the 80s and 90s.
Just give me a Game Boy/GBA channel, aome modest internal memory, SD card compatibility, flash support (I wish) and video playback and I'll be there.
Nintendo DS+, which is possible since Nintendo already adopted the + name convention with Wii Fit +, but is not likely due to it sounding like yet another edition of the first DS rather than a brand new system meant to succeed it.
Second guess:
Super Nintendo DS, which fits in with the naming convention Nintendo started with the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and would be totally awesome, though I dont think putting "super" in the name of their system fits in with their new simplicity angle.
I'd like better graphics, more memory (not at all for better emulation once jailbroken), bigger screens and an online store that isn't totally useless. Keep the buttons, ditch the camera, let it play DS carts with some sort of upscaling/anti-aliasing options.
As for naming, They will probably go along with something hinting inclusive play or connectivity. Nintendo Wiinii hahaha...Wiinii. Hey, you all thought Wii was stupid at first...
@MesonW - I don't think they would go for something like that. It looks and sounds too sharp. S is smooth. T is hard.
My DS needs a replacement, the screen is all screwed up. I'd rather not buy a DSi right now just to find out that the "DS2" is going to be released later this year.
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