To be honest I believe in that redesign aswell seeing as even a companie lied to a psp-guy that now kh was made for the psp and some days later announced 3 titles for psp, ds (yay !) and even the handy.

I just hope it won't be much better than the old one so there won't be any problems with the old one not being able to play the games of the new.

Let's hope the best, my ol phat needs a strudy and good replacement (still, I will keep it for the memories)

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Yeah, I'm certain there is going to be a redesign, a few months ago nintendo europe surveyed me on my opinions of the DS lite. My theory is that this next one will be easier to hold because I think there were a couple of bits asking how easy it was to hold while playing.

Anyway, I think that that's really the only improvement that could feasably be made. That and actually making it so that GBA games fit properly, it just looks so messey with them poking out

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Of course there won't be a redesign because its gonna be a next-gen DS which they, of course are gonna blatently deny until they're ready to announce it themselves.

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If anything, I would expect something like mockup #26.

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I'll take the one that pulls apart sideways then the screen flips up, please.

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Those mock-ups make any post worthy.

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If this were the pre-DS Lite Nintendo, there'd be absolutely no doubt. Every year and a half or so from the Game Boy Pocket until the DS, a new handheld system was released. But Nintendo's whole operating procedure has been disrupted by the outrageous popularity of the DS Lite, and I no longer really expect them to behave like themselves.

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I don't know, I think it could go either way. The Lite was a significant improvement over the original DS, much like the SP was a significant improvement over the GBA. However, I think they risk another Micro incident releasing another hardware revision at this time. I fully believe Nintendo capable of doing such a thing, but I'm not too sure they actually would. I have to go with a "not too likely" verdict.

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Was thinking on this after the rumors stated to appear again.

Not much to change or update. Its a pretty good designed. Well though out using ideas and concepts proven over time to work well.

SPEED: CPU's speed could be both double or quadruple. Current Main is 66mhz and 2nd is 33. Basically double of GBA. its too slow for intense processing. Like the browser. So a speed increase would be nice.

THIN... Didden't Nintendo say a while back they are dropping the gameboy lable? Could the next model drop the Slot 2 GBA port? Shelf space for GBA titles is disappearing like Game Cube. Even Frys has red tagged the bulk of the GBA titles!

SCREEN: Larger screen. One or both up it to 3.5". Switch to an all surface touch screen. LCD are getting cheaper to do at larger sizes. OLED are too costly even at this size.... but would be wow!

MEMORY: Double or triple memory size. Make it easer for large games, browsers etc.

FEATURES: Music and video playback. Way out there but the PSP can do this out of the box. And in Japan there will be a Legal flash adapter and service by a third part for the DS. Be great if it come to the U.S. I actually use my DS for games but also music playback when driving.

LONG SHOT: Video out... Not a major item or even a micro item. But would be interesting.

BATTERY LIVE: Not much to add to the current it almost runs for ever!

Here is the catch. At 25 million the current DS STILL has not hit its stride! THE DS Lite over the Ds was to refind the case and make the display a bit brighter bother very worthwhile updates.

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nintendo might release a new ds with extra features like a build in mp3player (music stored could be stored on micro sd-card) or with a picture/video viewer or basic organizer (like calender and adressbook) - all this extra feature will cool if they build into hardware and not some "dodgy" memory card.

It would also be cool if nintendo updated the hardware so ds could use a wpa encrypted wireless network

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The DS Lite doesn't really need a redesign. Most of those mockups would never happen anyway. All the new ds needs is maybe a very slight shape change and more processing power/features built in. The size is good and the general shape is good, why change it?

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I hope there is a new DS coming. I only have my beloved DS for 2 weeks, but I will start saving my money again, coz I am only 15!
Bigger screens Nintendo, and a nice and smooth processor (ARM11 plz!)!!

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I would like them to add 802.11G wireless support with WPA. That's the only thing I don't like about my DS.

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One occurance doesn't make a pattern. :P

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People aren't seeing that if there's a major redesign (Like a change in hardware) that all the game companies will need to be sent new DSes to play with, and new GOOD games (Remember how few of those existed at the end of '04, beginning of '05?) would take a longer while to come out because devs will want to play with their new toys.

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Heck, I'd love a redesign, if only so the current DS Lites drop in price so I can justify getting one. :)

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I hope not, I just bought a ****ing cobalt DS lite, cause I was sick of the pale and jittery DSphat screen

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