New Dual Screened Nintendo Handheld announced
 

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For months Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has been offering Japanese newspapers vague comments about a new mystery hardware that the company would launch in 2004. Nintendo of America today pulled back the curtains on the top-secret device and it looks to be good news for Nintendo fans worldwide.

The company's mystery machine is in fact a dual-screened portable game device that is entirely separate from both the GameCube and the Game Boy Advance. It will be marketed completely free of its sister hardware. It's calledNintendo DS for Nintendo Dual-Screen.

Nintendo DS features two connected 3-inch TFT LCD display panels, and two separate processors. The device features an Arm9 main processor and an Arm7 sub processor.

The portable will not use GameCube optical disc or Game Boy Advance cartridge based media. Instead, it will play software on semiconductor memory of up to 1 Gigabit, according to the manufacturer.

Nintendo explains the importance of the dual-screen setup: "Players can look forward to being able to manage their game progress from two different perspectives, enhancing both the speed and strategy of the challenge. For example in a soccer game, users can view the whole game on one screen while simultaneously focusing on an individual soccer player's tackle or goal on the other screen.

"Players will no longer be forced to interrupt game play to shift perspective, such as moving from a wide shot to a close up, or alternating between a character's ongoing battle and a map of the environment. Nintendo DS makes it possible to perform the tasks in real time by simply glancing from one screen to the other."

Today's revelation is just the beginning, according to the company. The bulk of information on the machine will be unveiled at May's Electronics Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles.

"We have developed Nintendo DS based upon a completely different concept from existing game devices in order to provide players with a unique entertainment experience for the 21st century," explained Satoru Iwata, Nintendo president.

The announcement, seemingly out of nowhere, likely comes in preparation for Nintendo's upcoming financial report. Also, developers have indicated that they will soon receive development hardware for the new system and with that Nintendo wouldn't be able to keep it a secret for very much longer.

The Nintendo DS will be on-hand at E3 2003 in fully playable form, according to the company. It will ship in the last half of 2004.

virtual boy anyone?

I wonder what games will be on it? I don't think they should be doing this. They should concentrating on trying to survive the xbox. I think this will bomb. Gimme Smash bros online dammit.:mad:

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that doesn't look like much fun...i'd get distracted.

WHEN IS THE FUCKING MEGAMAN ANNIVERSARY COLLECTION COMING OUT SO I CAN GET A GODDAMN GAMECUBE!>!!>!?!?!?!/

well i happen to think it sounds bad ass. anyways the mega man collection is due to come out in march and it's for ps2 as well if you already have one. but i'd get the cube anyways.

early March I believe.

:banoonoo: i only have the nes and the snes, and they're both in storage, so i've been out of the loop for quite some time.

MARCH IS GOING TO BE THE BEST MONTH EVER. maybe i'll be able to get granny to buy me the gamecube and the MMAC for my birthday!

oh, a question: which platform's controller has the most buttons? the ps2 or the gamecube? i want the one with the least amount of weird buttons. snes had the best controller ever!

You're such an X-box fanboy now. Keep wearing those tunnel goggles, douche.

If you like the snes controller get a ps2. Its the same thing as the psx controller was originally a snes cd controller.

i feel sorry for nintendo. they used to be so cool.

OMG FUCK TECHNOLOGY! seriously... *sigh* i'll figure it out later.

i'm gonna run out to school and see if the darkroom is free so i can get my print on.

thanks for the info, guys.