Evan Wilson, an analyst with Pacific Crest Securities, says that Nintendo has completed the design for a new DS model. How does he know? "Contacts!" According to Wilson's secret oracle, the new hardware will ditch the GBA slot for an even thinner profile, and add some storage media and enlarged screens.
Could this new model be designed to take advantage of the rumored game downloading service? If GBA games were downloadable, the lack of a GBA slot and the storage would make a lot of sense together.
According to Wilson, Nintendo has been holding off on releasing this new model until sales drop worldwide. The truth is, they were just waiting for me to get a DS Lite. Seriously, it happens every time.
[Thanks, Eztips!]
Could this new model be designed to take advantage of the rumored game downloading service? If GBA games were downloadable, the lack of a GBA slot and the storage would make a lot of sense together.
According to Wilson, Nintendo has been holding off on releasing this new model until sales drop worldwide. The truth is, they were just waiting for me to get a DS Lite. Seriously, it happens every time.
[Thanks, Eztips!]
After seeing this thread over at NeoGAF, we spent a little time thinking about the DS Lite. Obviously, we're 
It's almost (min)E3 time, and you know what that means -- wanton speculation. That's right, game fans, it's time to hop on the rumor train. So what's the story? You won't believe it. No, really.
Just what we needed -- wild speculation about the DS. This time it comes in the form of a possible redesign being reported on various Japanese blogs. Or at least, Jeux-France is reporting that the rumor is snaking its way through the 'net. So the French translated the Japanese, and we've translated them (and surely no information has been lost in this process, because we're all professionals here), and here's the word: bigger screens. The completely true and accurate translated report says both screens will be slightly larger than Lite version -- less than an inch of difference on both -- and that the redesign will debut in Japan next year.
