Rumour: Widescreen DS Lite Leaked?

[Grey Acumen]

alpha_dk said:

Naraku_Diabolos said:

Grey Acumen said:
what the hell is with all the people going "bad for batteries?"

come on folks, slash GBA support and use the extra space to throw in a bigger stylus and a larger battery and you're set.

You're forgetting that some of the DS games will allow you to transfer data from your GBA games (FFTA -> FFTA2; Pokemon R/S/E/FR/LG/ -> Pokemon D/Pe/Pl; Golden Sun: The Lost Age -> Golden Sun 3 etc.), right?

Not to mention all the DS games that require the GBA slot (*cough*RecentlyReleasedGHIV*cough*).

That slot ain't going nowhere till the DS2

Not forgetting anything, you can push that out into an external adaptor that can be bought seperately. Essentially make it so there's one of those mini USB adaptors on the back and then plug in the GBA Cartridge reader so that it fits flush along the back of the "widescreen" DS. Maybe have it so that you screw it into place or it has heavy clips that you need to pinch to release, but it would still take up less than 1/10th the space of what having teh GBA slot built into the DS does.

You could even have it set so that it uses the actual GBA architecture so that it can play Gameboy and Gameboy Color games as well as GBA, and also have them include the multiplayer ports along the top edge so that you don't lose the multiplayer aspects from those titles.

This would mean that people who just wanted the DS for stuff like Nintendogs and Brain Age(which there are quite a few, I'm sure) could get a bigger screen and possibly even longer battery life, and people who wanted the extra function could get teh seperate piece and have even better backwards compatability than what the DS and DS lite currently offer.