Just a quick thought..

We all know how Apple upgrades the iPod, a make over, a few new nifty features but the older ones can still do the basic things that the new ones can (i.e. play music) and giving them more value at the same price.

Is Nintendo following this path? Making the DS have incremental adjustments over time, to increase its life and to give it more value for the same price instead of having continual price drops?

If I remember correctly, Iwata said a few years ago now that he believed a business model based on price drops was a bad business model (talking about software prices but it can still be applied here)

So what do you think? Is Nintendo following this strategy? Or is this just the same old upgrades they have always made?

Note: Please assume that all the details we've gotten over the last few days are 100% true

I hope not. While I like my iPod, I don't like the ever-increasing bloat that has come to plague the line in recent years.

Gameboy certainly is older than iPod.

As long as Nintendo does not release a new DS every year like we have a new Ipod every year...I say no.

Well it doesn't have to be every year, it's more about extending the life of the hardware.

The GBA hardware was updated a few times, so it's nothing new for Nintendo if they update the DS again.

Aren't the iPod changes more like a new colours every now and then, bigger storage and a few bigger upgrades like iPod video and iPhone?
Considering that Nintendo propably wants to sell software for people who do not yet own a DS, they have motivation to add features to DS. And considering how Gameboy and Gameboy Advance had new revisions and hardware upgrades, i would bet the same thing happening to DS - without pricecuts. The main selling force will still be the software and a good example of the kind of software would be Korg DS10 (Nintendo Channel has a developer interview. Despite the interviewed being somekind of hippie, it's still pretty much worth of watching).

Better not be. I bought a (then) new Nano a few months ago and they already have some fancy new version with accelerometres and a widescreen >_>

Why would somebody need an accelerometer in an ipod. 

nintendo admitted to using apples award winning design formula for both the ds lite and the wii.