Are you guys serious? This thread has me entirely disappointed in all sorts of "respected" members here.
If a DS redesign is released, it will not happen this year. If anything, it'll be in Q3 or Q4 2009. Additionally, it will not remove Slot 2. There are too many games that use the second slot. Every game that has rumble... uses Slot 2. Pokemon Pearl and Diamond both use Slot 2 in order to obtain PKMN from Gen 3. The Nintendo DS Browser won't work without the RAM Expansion Pak... that uses Slot 2. Simply put, as long as the DS is around, there will always be a Slot 2. Anybody that says otherwise either is an idiot, or hasn't paid any attention. Or both.
Additionally, I believe the "DS2" will have graphics slightly superior to the GCN, but inferior to the Wii. It will still have a Slot 2, for backwards compatibility and for uses similar to why the current DS has one. It will launch in either late 2010 or 2011, I couldn't say exactly which.
You can count on almost all of that.
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