Nintendo may unveil new DS at this year's E3

DS Rumour | New update or entirely new console?

Thanks to an article published in Bloomberg: Japan, a wave of speculation has flooded the gaming industry as Hirokazu Hamamura, president of Japanese magazine publisher Enterbrain (which is home to popular gaming publication Famitsu) has recently commented that Nintendo may be announcing a new version of its insanely popular handheld, the Nintendo DS at this year's E3 convention.

At this stage it is unclear as to whether the rumoured DS will be another redesign or an entirely new platform. Given Nintendo's past history, it would be assumed that it is another upgrade in the works rather than a new machine at this time as Nintendo would be wary of jeopardising their sales as the DS continues to sell like hotcakes across the globe.

Special shout out to PALGN reader Munchie who translated the Bloomberg article.

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31 Comments

döppelgangbang

3 years ago

My money is on TWO touch screens and multiple touch point input with complete backwards compatability.

xloserfishx

3 years ago

I'm in the same category as B3NBO... I went round the world for sixpence trying to find a DS just after Christmas last year, the last thing I need is for a better one to come out

genxevo

3 years ago

i'm in the dark, and have done no research on this, but all this talk about upgradable firmware for DS, what purpose would it serve?

I'm gathering by reading all the posts here that the backwards compatibility for DS to play GBA games isn't 100%, and newer models of DS have upgraded firmware which does let you play certain GBA games?

somedude34

3 years ago

genxevo wrote

iv never heard of that, wouldn't any type of ds work with 100% of GBA games?

Kurupt

3 years ago

admeister wrote

It's hard to say for sure really, but a redesign is definitely more likely imo. Unless it adds some major feature though, I'm not interested. I'm still using the two DS's I bought at launch here, forget the Lite, the only difference is cosmetic, I'm not paying out more money just for that. There's absolutely nothing wrong with the original DS, redesigns are just incentives for potential buyers after all.

Haha,same. Still got my phat since the Aussie launch. It's got too much sentimental value now to upgrade.

ADiscoMassacre

3 years ago

DUAL TOUCH SCREENS!!!! as in you can use touching on both.

Or a DVD addon, that lets you play Wii games on your DS....

Or a DS-Mote that lets you use the DS as a portable Wii

Or a inbuilt camera to use as a motion sensing device (like the eye-toy)

legend166

3 years ago

Absolutely no way that it's a new console. That would make absolutely no sense. The thing is still break sales records all around the world. 3rd party support is still coming in droves. Hell, one of the biggest titles, DQIX, still hasn't even been released.

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