I think Nintendo has finally lost it's mind....I don't know what to make of this, but I'll be at E3 to find out....

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '><b>Link:</b> <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/all/news/news_6 ... l">here</a>

I think Nintendo has finally lost it's mind....I don't know what to make of this, but I'll be at E3 to find out....</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>haha yeah...2 screens? That should be interesting..</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Ditto. I awaiting PA's opinion on it.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It has dual processors, one which runs at 133 mhz, and another at 266 mhz (in comparisspn, the PS2 runs at about 300, Dreamcast at about 200, N64 at about 100, and the Gameboy Advance at about 17mhz). They are using a lighting which is supposedly superior to the GBA SP.

Other features

-two 3 inch screens (same size as the GBA SP each)
-the two screens can be used as one large screen
-DS cartridges may contain up to 128 MB of storage space (or one Gigabit, in comparisson, Zelda Ocarina of Time was 32 Mb's)

Originally it was rumoured to be a portable system that would be backwards compatable with SNES and N64 titles (similar to that system released in China recently). No official announcements have come yet as to what is compatable and what is not. It was also said to be able to interact with the hardware of Gamecube's and GBA's successor.</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>128meg cartridges? What're the games gonna cost? 80 bucks?</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Is this really necessary?</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>They haven't said, but I doubt very much that they will be more than 45. Iwata is very conscious about the success of having competetive pricing.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Probably not. I don't see it doing well.</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>speaking of which you still hookin me up with that right?</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>You could say that about anything in entertainment, because none of it is really necessary.</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>worst....idea....ever.</div>

[afs25]

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>It'll be interesting to find out whether the dual screens will allow innovative/revolutionary gameplay or whether they're there only for the novelty factor</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>It'll definetely take a lot to convince me that this is gonna be good</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Well geez, give the Scientoligists some credit.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>I'm just picturing the versatility of multiplayer games in the vein of LoZ: Four Swords.</div>

[KluYa]

<div style='font: 10pt "Stylus BT"; text-align: left; '><img src="http://cubemedia.ign.com/cube/image/nin ... ounced.jpg">

Here's a picture of the device.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Hahaha, the device will actually be two screens facing vertically.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>I've just started playing some Arcade games online, multiplayer is awesome. :P</div>

[KluYa]

<div style='font: 10pt "Stylus BT"; text-align: left; '>http://www.members.shaw.ca/staloshinji/Gba2screen.jpg
http://www.the3dresource.com/images/nintendobs.jpg
http://www.members.shaw.ca/staloshinji/GTAds.JPG
http://www.m-gaming.nl/showscreen.php?screen=DS005.jpg
http://www.m-gaming.nl/showscreen.php?screen=DS007.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/nervx/nintendods.jpg

http://www.bolman.nl/classic_nintendo_ds.jpg
http://mercury.walagata.com/w/schram/2885665.gif
http://www.gq-guild.com/~chibby_traxx/N ... DS%202.jpg
http://www.gq-guild.com/~chibby_traxx/N ... DS%201.jpg
http://www.m-gaming.nl/showscreen.php?screen=DS014.jpg
http://www.gameqube.nl/showscreen.php?screen=wip1.jpg
http://www.m-gaming.nl/showscreen.php?screen=DS002.jpg
http://www.gameqube.nl/showscreen.php?screen=gbads.jpg
http://static.gameparty.net/screenshots/1355/9848.jpg
http://www.m-gaming.nl/files/DS003.jpg
http://static.gameparty.net/screenshots/1355/9847.jpg
http://static.gameparty.net/screenshots/1355/9846.jpg
http://static.gameparty.net/screenshots/1355/9845.jpg
http://www.gamemag.nl/itp/screens/400e8 ... D.jpg</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>lol, these are all pretty funny.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Bah! You know how I feel about online games (except Utopia and sometimes Starcraft). But they may get better on console and handheld, unfortuanetly I think they'll just continue to suck like they do on PC.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>some are hillarious, and some actually look pretty believable</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Well try it out, there are emulators for the SNES, Genisis, Gameboy out there that you can play against other people online, including The Four Swords.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '><img src=http://www.members.shaw.ca/staloshinji/Gba2screen.jpg>
<img src=http://www.the3dresource.com/images/nintendobs.jpg>
<img src=http://www.members.shaw.ca/staloshinji/GTAds.JPG>
<img src=http://www.m-gaming.nl/showscreen.php?screen=DS005.jpg>
<img src=http://www.m-gaming.nl/showscreen.php?screen=DS007.jpg>
<img src=http://members.shaw.ca/nervx/nintendods.jpg>
<img src=http://www.bolman.nl/classic_nintendo_ds.jpg>
<img src=http://mercury.walagata.com/w/schram/2885665.gif>
<img src=http://www.gq-guild.com/~chibby_traxx/N ... DS%202.jpg>
<img src=http://www.gq-guild.com/~chibby_traxx/N ... DS%201.jpg>
<img src=http://www.m-gaming.nl/showscreen.php?screen=DS014.jpg>
<img src=http://www.gameqube.nl/showscreen.php?screen=wip1.jpg>
<img src=http://www.m-gaming.nl/showscreen.php?screen=DS002.jpg>
<img src=http://www.gameqube.nl/showscreen.php?screen=gbads.jpg>
<img src=http://static.gameparty.net/screenshots/1355/9848.jpg>
<img src=http://www.m-gaming.nl/files/DS003.jpg>
<img src=http://static.gameparty.net/screenshots/1355/9847.jpg>
<img src=http://static.gameparty.net/screenshots/1355/9846.jpg>
<img src=http://static.gameparty.net/screenshots/1355/9845.jpg>
<img src=http://www.gamemag.nl/itp/screens/400e8 ... .jpg></div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Yeah, because we all know that a multiplayer FPS automatically sucks on the PC, but Goldeneye with four tiny split-screens is god, right?</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Well, if it was such a bad idea, Hubbard wouldn't have died rich.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Gentz, a GB of RAM is less than 80 bucks nowadays. I think they'll manage.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>5 years ago when Goleneye was still relatively new, of course, that's why it was the most played videogame in North American history. And yeah, online FPS's blow the dark root.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>It just doesn't appeal to me. I think you have to be a certain type of person to enjoy playing the majority of games online, to me it just feels like a big waste of time in the worst way possible.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Same could be said about all video games, in general. They're all a waste of time.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>For example, someone like Tessian who can play 40-60 hours of a game in a few days, hates humanity, and likes Starwars may enjoy online games, or even shoot up a classroom when they make fun of his trench coat. But I only play about 2-5 hours any week of the year. When I am playing mutliplayer games, I like to have everyone in the same room; I just find that having it online defeats the purpose since you can't really have a real conversation, have a few beers, go out to the bars later, or anything like that. I generally will not play a game unless it is with other people, too boring otherwise.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>lol, on that first sentence. But what if you could play GoldenEye online?</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>yeah but you live uder a bridge and eat billy-goats....you don't count</div>

[Zeus]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Online is a committment which is why it'll always be a niche IMO</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Umm, you're on crack.</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>People in general, not him specifically.</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>That one with the view of Nintendo stock value is TOO good : )</div>

[Kupek]

<div style='font: 10pt verdana; text-align: left; padding: 0% 10% 0% 10%; '>Okay, think it through. You can't use RAM as permanent storage. Not to mention that they don't just take PC parts and stick them in cartridges.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Of course, but permanent storage (ROM) is easier to make than RAM. All they need is a 128MB ROM chip and maybe 2MB of CMOS.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Why? I never really heard an answer for this?</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>But you're missing the real point Sine, if they just stuck some PC parts into a cartridge, they couldn't call it their own special proprietary technology and charge you extra for it.</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Well, of course not, but even a gaming CONTEXT this seems kinda pointless.</div>