Or they can go for a moduler design and everyone would be happy.

http://madiart.blogspot.com/2006/09/gameboy-omega.html

I don't like paying for what I don't need, and I really don't like paying for I don't want.

But I'd pay for a new slimmer model, just shallow I guess (I don't get those Dove ads)

If you want an all in one without phone, get a PSP. There's no reason for DS to go there. The camera add on for the PSP wasn't popular and there's a reason. People already have cameras and/or camera phones. Why would they want a game system to do this?

I think GPS would be cool because you could send GPS coordinates and then meet people randomly on the street for battles, but that would never happen because Americans fear unknown people and the GPS function would be way to expensive to justify putting it in.

On the contrary, anyone who's messed with flashcarts before will know how cool it is to play music through earphones while closing your DS. At least, it is if you disable shoulder-button controls :D
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Hmmmm. This sounds pants to me, but that's just the description so far. Its totally un-necessary... if they turn it into a PSP, i'll flip.

I have messed with Flash Carts, and I find playing music on my DS real bulky and uncomfortable. My Shuffle does the job much more nicely :/

That last part was hilarious. lolz

That last part was hilarious. lolz

@ Pre-pumpkin (NOT Shoyz -- I know you were kidding)

Haha, yeah really funny. Go to jail, you little creep.

Cameras and music are core domain? when did this happen?

Core gamers are more likely to own PS3s and 360s, both of which have both of these features, as opposed to the Wii, which doesn't have a camera, and barely has music playing (through the Photo channel only).

Not only that, but core gamers usually fall into the same age range as the people who tend to buy (or receive as gifts) phones with cameras and MP3 capabilities.

I'm not saying that other people wouldn't appreciate these features, but it's not really a selling point for soccer moms or 4 year olds.

Then again, it might be nice to see Nintendo putting more effort into pleasing core gamers and less into minigame collections and non-games. It's such a waste to see a company that has historically made some of the best games ever, like Super Mario World and Ocarina of Time, almost completely wasting the skill and talent they've shown they have on games like Brain Age and Wii Fit.

You forget that hardcore gamers play casual games, and that casual gamers can be interested in hardcore titles. and your usage of 'core' isn't even correct('core' means current consumers as opposed to expanded market buyers aka new consumers)

as for 'hardcore' vs. 'casual' there isn't even a universally agreed upon meaning of 'hardcore', and some can be be interpreted to mean FPSes are casual titles(the 'easy to pick up & play' theory. so many I've played don't go much beyond aim & shoot really), another could be interpreted as animal crossing being 'core', because of the hours of play and dedication it takes to earn perfect town status(which might explain the weirdness at nintendo's E3 booth..... cammie needs to be fired)
heck, some definitions exclude all but an extremely small number of games(again, the pick up and play one) one definition even states graphics define hardcore, which could include wii fit if they set it to 1080p and realism'd the crap out of it.