I'll post this every time anyone thinks a new DS is coming

From Iwata to Investors

On to our challenges on the decline of our software shipment in the “Other Regions” including the European market, we acknowledge it as a big issue because, even though the decrease in actual sales in the markets was smaller than the decrease in our shipments (as I said during today’s presentation), the actual sales declined about 20%. Some say it is due to piracy activities made possible by devices such as Magic-Coms(R4), but I don’t believe it’s the only reason. When Nintendo DS was getting more and more popular and sales figure performed accordingly, some of our product proposals became a social phenomena. Just like Brain Training in Japan, Nintendogs or Brain Training did the same thing in the European market. Actually Brain Training performed fine there last year – it sold over a million copies in Europe but the previous year had sold more than three million copies. That means Brain Training had less visibility as a social phenomenon last year. Nintendogs is in a similar situation. If we could propose what will replace them and maintain a high visibility in society, then the Nintendo DS momentum can be activated and more software titles can be sold. What this means is that we were not able to do that. Thus I believe our highest priority is to propose and offer Nintendo DS titles which can be another social phenomena.

Please continue to ignore this elephant in the room.

Yeah, it's called DSi.

and i still dreaming of buying a DS-i ...

"Official website:http://www.pokemon.co.jp/info/game/g100129_02.html  (or the "translated" version here)

The official website is saying that it's a game for the Nintendo DS."

I am very confident that a new handheld will be announced at TGS 2010, but I don't think that this new Pokémon game is an exclusive for the next handheld.

Yeah.

People shouldn't even get hyped up just now about a DS2.

Sure dev kits may be in dev's hands, but the system is likely a ways off from releasing. Don't get your hopes up for E3 expecting an announcement that might not be intended till next year.

Besides, Im sure the next DS would be backwards compatible with the current system; it is Nintendo's most successful after all.

It's very clear that the majority of you guys aren't even reading the original post.

(1) As I said, Nintendo only took 9 years to release any real successor to the GameBoy because it didn't have any competition to deal with. That's not the case anymore. Now they clearly DO have significant competition, and we know Sony is working to release their own PSP successor soon. I don't think Nintendo will let Sony get ahead of them - they want to drown the competition out and have a virtual monopoly again. Eliminate the chance of the competition to viably make a profit and you have an easier time controlling the market once again.

(2) I very, very clearly stated that the game would be DS compatible - which very obviously means it would be a "DS title" in the same way that Gold and Silver versions were "GB titles" even though they were made for the GBC.

(3) I'm not sure why you people are still trying to justify the DSi as a successor system and not just a minor revision. Adding cameras does absolutely nothing to give a potential upgrade to each and every game. It only adds to a few select games that actually CAN benefit from it. THIS is why it can't be a DSi exclusive - it just doesn't make sense that way. Also, the announcements about it say it is to release for the DS system - NOT the DSi. No, there's 100% no doubt in my mind that there's no way it'll be a DSi exclusive.

(4) I think there's a chance it MAY release prior to the DS2, but that it'll definitely still have DS2 unique features built-in, or that a revision of the game will release early on for the DS2. This would allow them to bypass the incredibly obvious issues of supporting the generation for four years while the DS2 is out at the same time. You never want to release something that you need to support for years beyond the release of a successor - that's bad marketing. But releasing it with the successor's features already built-in, or re-releasing it a year later with revisions, would bypass that entire problem altogether.

(5) For the past fourteen years PKMN has stood for Pokemon. Where the hell have you people been?

Wasn't Battle Revolution a launch title in Japan?

He's obviously talking about main series.

It may get laughed at now, but Game Gear was "serious competition" in it's day, netting around 20-25% marketshare worldwide in the early 90s. Honestly, Game Boy faced more legitimate competitors than any other Nintendo handheld ever has (Game Gear, Wonderswan, Neo Geo Pocket, Lynx, etc).

Bump because I told you so. With the 3DS launching within the next year, it is now all but confirmed that Pokemon Gen5 will be part of the 3DS launch set.