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Anyone fooled by that should be kicked in the gonads for being so foolish. Obviously, the screens were enhanced for the advertisement in order to sell the game. What company would allow a new system or system design to be leaked via a 3rd party ad?

Once again, with the DS selling as strongly as it is, I highly doubt that another redesign is on it's way. Almost certainly not this year, at any rate.



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Wow really bad photoshop picture!

How can anyone believe this!



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pichu_pichu said:
that would sure waste the batteries

 

The red light on the DS indicates you are correct!

 

And yes, as previosly mentioned the screen doesn't look like it's been aligned correctly on the DS. Probably meaning it's a fake or the picture was just stuck on there for clarity and promotional reasons. But most likely fake.



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.



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NJ5 said:
I hope it's not true, because I just bought two DSs!

 

 me too.



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Kinda nice. bigger, better screens is something PSP has been touting. Question, though, what else would be different. It would also have to include better battery management to ensure you still get 20ish hrs of gameplay off of one charge and there would need additional features to get some people to rebuy like they did when DSL came out in the first place.



Big N wouldn't do something like this until DS sales drop significantly. Why make their hardware cost more to produce when they are making so much money off of it now. I could see a redesign, but not with bigger screens.