Here we go, The Nintendo DS !!! : According to some video games forums, it seems to be a fake. I don't know. Wait & see !! from : http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2004-05-11-nintendo-ds_x.htm
Not a bad effort, but the main problem is it doesn't have the patented Nintendo D pad. That and the screens are obvious SP screens.
if that was on nintendo.com i still wouldnt beilive it was real... :smt043 Or at least i would hope for them it wasnt...
Hehe,even some of the early mockup's looked better than that thing!I think after we get to see it for real today,a lot of folk are going to be very suprised indeed.Btw,I'd just like to say Hi,I just registered here,look forward to some seasoned console discussion.The wealth of knowledge on this board is amazing sometimes.
Welcome to the board! I think we should have a DS mockup competition, I know its been done to death since it was announced, but the closest person to the real thing can win a prize, a pen I stole from work or a sheet of GameCube Notepad paper or something. Get your entries in quick (if you can be arsed!)
Just saw that on Outerspace (Brazilian Game News website). " The site also mentions: - Wireless multiplayer by Bluetooth - 2 separated slots (one for GBA cartridges and one for DS small cards) - One of the screens has touch-screen technology. More details on DS and Nintendo, today after the Nintendo conference."
Looks like ASSEMbler was right. It is an old school Game and Watch. It beats that mockup they had in EGM at least. If it sells for $150.00 for like the article suspects I think they might run into problems. It just feels like Nintendo created the DS out of panic because of the PSP and that they're about to make the same mistakes they should have learned from Sega in the nineties. I can see parents saying their not going to spend another $150.00 on a handheld when they just bought one 1 to 2 years ago. Hopefully it will succeed for Nintendo’s sake though.
I think the mock-up above looks pretty cool in a retro sort of way. For some reason though I had the image of the DS having two screens vertical to each other like a book or something. Don't know why I thought this :smt017 Yakumo
It looks great in that retro game and watch style. I have read some of the nintendo line-up games for the DS: a mario kart games, a new metroid game and even a zelda game. I'll buy one the minute it's for sale because the price of $150 is quite good and it can play gba games so i'll just trade in my SP and throw in some extra cash.
I wouldn't go selling anything until Ninty announce the capabilities. I doubt they are going to undermine their GBA fanbase, they got enough stick for releasing the SP and shafting buyers of the regular GBA. Has anyone else noticed Nintendo's sudden silence on the GBA2 front? the DS was supposed to be a model between the GBA and GBA2 with its own target audience. They were lording it up about how great the GBA2 was going to be, now they have drawn everyones attention away with the DS and now you dont get a mention of the GBA2. I think Ninty went the easy option with the DS, which according to their own reports is a GBA with a 3D engine bolted on. Does anyone else remember the 32X?
yes, that's actually exactly what I thought too :smt017 When I saw this pic I was like "hey, of course, that way it looks much better" :smt043
Exactly what I was thinking. BUT... Nintendo would never ditch the 'Gameboy' name; so I think they must still be planning something else.
God I hope so Funkstar, I think this is going to be a failure, I will buy one, yes (if it gets released in Europe, remember we dont get a lot of things if its "slightly risky") I will disown Ninty forever if it has nothing more than GBA games, with an added menu/map/status screen. Everyone says "but imagine what developers can do with an extra screen!" to which I reply, yes, but look at the shite they knock out with just one... imagine half the effort for each screen... I will get my coat.
I think the reason there's so little info on the GBA 2 (or relatively, the GC2) is that Nintendo right now is really really banking on the success of the DS, and apparently they are going to be in pretty bad shape if they don't do well with this ( http://cube.ign.com/articles/492/492253p1.html ). The interview says that they won't be bankrupt, but they will be crushed - possibly a Sega-esque third party stint? Anywho, I guess they're more concerned with staying afloat with the DS right now than they are the next thing down the line. And besides, GBA has a ton of life left in it, I for one wouldn't mind not having a squel for a few more years. I mean hell, look what the Gameboy did.
Nintendo press conference has just ended. The picture above is the real DS, indeed. It looks slighty better in real than on the first picture. Touch screen, microphone, 3d on one screen. Metroid looks sexy. Nintendo has $8 billion reserve. They can cope with a few loss.
Omfg the DS at the press conference was just awsome, a 3d metroid game, mario 64 game WIFI playing aggainst eachother over the net GBA compatible kiss this PSP nintedni is back.... oy yeah :smt023
Inflammatory Remarks HEY!! LISTEN!! Do you guys hear that noise off in the distance? .... Listen closely. It sounds like.... like a funeral procession. I know we haven't bought anything yet, but I personally think I need a refund on all the hype on this product since it's announcement. I saw a really cool concept a while ago - it might have been official, it might not - featuring the DS as a PDA-looking clamshell device. That would have been an interesting concept, but instead we get this monstrosity that is like the large, ugly, steroid using brother of the Game And Watch. I mean, couldn't they at least have done something with the blank space on either side of the top screen?? SPEAKERS would have been a novel idea, but as it is, I see none on the unit. It does HAVE speakers, does it not? But hey, I'll stop ragging on the godawful design and let you in on a little secret feature about the DS. The gaming press would have told you about it, but they are all in some back room fellating Miyamoto and the DS team over the rendered images of the unit, so I get to take over from here. The feature is this: NONE of the games will require a start button! Ever find it annoying to have to stop the action to look at your map or go into the inventory? Well you'll never have to do this again, as Nintendo has wasted an ENTIRE SCREEN just to let you look at an aerial map of your arena, or a group of lines on a dark background depicting the area you're playing in, which reminds me of the map style of another game.... Oh, that's right, it was Doom, back in the mid-ninteys. But that issue aside, controlling the games is going to be a blast too. Metroid is going to be so advanced that you have to have THREE goddamned arms to play the game, and I'm not kidding! You can use your left and right arms to man the buttons as usual, and your third arm (or bionic prosthesis, if you are unlucky enought to play this product of the future NATURALLY) can use the stylus on the touch screen to look around! How cool is that?? Alright, all sarcasm aside, from what I've seen, the DS looks like it is not merely a nail, but a pond of nails as well as the entire goddamn lid in Nintendo's coffin. The design looks awful, and I'm really pissed that this "console with 2 screens!" is just a game with an included map screen - if that's all it was for, I'm sure they could have designed a smaller screen, maybe even a black and white one. If it was just inventory and a map, I would have had no problems with this. I'm waiting to see if there are any really worthwhile games coming out - the New Super Mario Bros. looks like it might have potential, and the Mario 64x4, if it retained the original gameplay of Mario 64, could be interesing. I've been in shock over the direction the Metroid franchise is taking for so long that I'm not really surprised to see that this one is in 3D as well, although I have this horrible image of Nintendo vigorously @#$%ing Gunpey Yokoi's corpse as he rolls frantically in his grave. I was a little excited about an Animal Crossing game, until I saw the screenshots of an entire screen of text entry and inventory. I didn't go into E3 thinking the DS would suck. I desperately wanted it to triumph over Sony's portable monstrousity, I really did. But after this, I think that if I even do buy a next-gen portable console, I'll prolly buy Sony's. I haven't really been impressed with any of the DS offerings this far, and at least the PSP has Gran Turismo 4 and that nifty looking Death Jr. game. Plus, when I'm sitting on the bus playing a game, I'd rather pocket around something that looks like a black bar of soap than a sleeker-looking TRS-80. Depending on the software lineup, I might give it a chance, but nothing short of a beautiful Mother 3 or anything else similarly stunning will cause me to get the thing. I'll just stick with my beautiful and small GBA SP for now - although I'm not sure how much longer that will be around, as the DS apparently includes a port for GBA games - something I'd sortof count as the competition between the systems (which from the start Nintendo has said would not exist). I just hope they adjust as well to the life of third-party game making as Sega has. Sorry if I've pissed anyone off, but in my opinion this is a worse idea than the Virtual Boy.
