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"Final Design for the DS"

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds/

It's looking good :)

EDIT

Gerrid's sort of right.

The chances of finding someone with a DS and the same game is bleak.
Still, if you're going on a school trip or on holiday with a friend/s then you could all organise to bring the multiplayer classics and the like...

You know... :-)


It's not quite going to change the multiplayer gaming handheld world but it's a huge step up from link cables.

Games coming out on the DS

Super Mario Bros DS [new]
Mario Kart DS [new]
Super Mario 64x4 [new]
Metroid Prime Hunters [new]
Sonic DS [new]
Animal Crossing DS [new]
WarioWare Inc DS [new]
Bomberman [new]
Yu-Gi-Oh: Nighmere Troubadour [new]
Pac n Roll [new]
Project Rub [new]
Dynasty Warriors [new]
Pac-Pix [new]
Egg Monster Hero [new]
Frogger 2005 [new]
Mobile Suit Gundam Seed [new]
PictoChat [new]

Remember the GBA was going to be put in to tube trains, maybe the DS will be in them automatically allowing people to play.

You sure you weren't just going round the circle line over and over?

You have to admit that it is extremely unlikely that you would find someone on the tube who
a) has a DS with them, on standby
b) has the same game as you
c) is going to be on the tube for long enough to play a decent game
d) actually wants to play a game

Maybe you'd get lucky if you were on a long train journey somewhere, but I doubt you'd play wireless on the tube.

gerrid wrote:
> Let's say you're sitting on the tube and you get out your DS and then
> oh, it's your stop, because tube journeys invariably take no longer
> than about 5- 10 minutes.

When I worked in London I spent just under an hour on a tube there and back a day...

People play GBA's on them all the time.

Well it's £94 and £98 in Japan and the US respectively, which means that it will be about £110 over here with the tax increase.

kevstar wrote:
> Just heard on gamezville's G team that the new ds could be under
> £100 when it comes out.

It could also be over £100.

Just heard on gamezville's G team that the new ds could be under £100 when it comes out.

Dringo wrote:
> Surly the inbuilt microphone will be good for communication?

The DS has one. But no analogue stick = no good.
The GBA2? Maybe. But no second screen. A picture can mean a thousand words. And it'll be good as a connection/organising interface while the main screen plays the game.


gerrid wrote:
> Although to be honest, how often are you going to be playing Wireless
> Mulitplayer with people who aren't your friends and who aren't
> sitting in the same room as you, unless you use this newfangled
> inter-web thing, which you probably won't be able to connect to
> anyway?

I have one or two friends to play wireless multi with, but yeah I can't rely on them.

This inter web thingamy though, is something I have connected to my broadband router. So I could take the DS anywhere in the house and play anyone in the world at Perfect Dark... except for one problem...



NO SODDING ANALOGUE STICK!!!






I'm getting too old for all this gaming malarky anysway. :-)