Nintendo Ds Due Out 24 Feb

[D-G]

ok i might be wrong but didnt nintendo make the gamecube? well, i dont think the games on the gamecube are for kids, as they have re-made many resident evil games.(which are MA15+)... just giving more imformation! =]

[Slow]

ok i might be wrong but didnt nintendo make the gamecube? well, i dont think the games on the gamecube are for kids, as they have re-made many resident evil games.(which are MA15+)... just giving more imformation! =]

Thats all nintendo has.... Resident evil.. but things will be interesting to see how this handheld "war" turns out. I wont be getting niether consoles unless i borow it from any friends who do get it but SO far PSP seems to have better power behind it... but DC has nintendo on its side and nintendo allways have won in hanheld, sony and other componies like sega tried and lost :ghost: .

[MacGuyver]

Nintendo will never lose their grip on the hand held market! Plus the DS is backwards compatible with GBA games. That's gotta be a pretty good incentive for GBA owners to upgrade. Plus Nintendo is INNOVATIVE, the DS could really change the way or create new ways for games to be played.... as soon as developers figure out how to take advantage of the features and provided they put them to good use. And Resident Evil being the only mature game on the Cube? What about Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime 1 & 2, Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, Soul Calibur 2... and yeah Resident Evil 4 will rock!

[Slow]

Nintendo will never lose their grip on the hand held market!

How can you say that, nintendo lost the console war with the game cube, the same could happen with the hand held... :zzz:

[32vspecII]

nintendo have already sold 2million + DS's . So its future is pretty well assured . The psp has an "average" battery life of 4 hours and reports are comming in of actual life of only 1.5 hours depending on the game .

back in the stone age days of gaming there was a big handheld war . Atari released the technically advanced Lynx . It had a large color backlit display , it had dual 16mhz 6052 processors , stereo sound , lots of custom chips similar to a commodor amiga . Its main competitor was the nintendo gameboy . It was 4 shade mono , non backlit , mono sound and a basic 8mhz z80 processor . not very impressive .

But the thing that killed the lynx was portability , it only lasted 4 hours on alkaline batterys , 1.5 on rechargables (dejavu here) and was quite large . certainly too big to fit in your pocket . The gameboy lasted 15+ hours on batteries , was small and had great games that were fun to play and fitted the portable format .

and we all know what happened to the gameboy . Few people remember the lynx .

the psp will do well no doubt , sony are already planning upgrades to its battery life (expensive hi capacity replacement batteries) and with the back catalog of ps2 games to port it should have no problems on that front .

but nintendo know how to do handhelds and with more than 2mil units shipped the DS is here for ever .

Also its a fairly advanced handheld by any measurement , about half way between a nintendo 64 and gamecube , dual processors , 3d accelerator . small , portable , good battery life and the touch screen .

[SKYLVIA]

im with u there arkon but i kinda disagree on the graphics being between 64 and gamecube, game cube have better graphics than the PS2 so id just keep the graphics at n64 stage, also many people have already preordered the DS and nintendo know how to control the handheld market, BUT nintendo has had very lousy competition what with the N-gage and all, Sony has been there biggest competitor since the PS and did you know that sony and nintendo teamed to make a console before the n64 and PS called the PSX (which has now been made by sony, i know) but it was going to be the shape of a PS but with cartriges, sony disliked the idea and go into a dispute about this, thats how they went there seperate ways (thats what i read in a game magazine) but yeh nintendo have never had a competitor like this before so it will be interesting to see how it unfolds

[32vspecII]

the ds is above n64 in terms of hardware specs , but your right probably not very close to the GC which is quite advanced . both portables will find their spot in the market easily , just dont write off the DS ! I could easily see a new psp version soon after the first release , with better battery life , perhaps less bulky . these are going to be sticking points for the psp vs the ds .

nintendo and microsoft are actually colaborating on the next gen nintendo revolution and xbox xeon . Both share the same new ibm tripple core 4ghz 64bit risc processor . Games will be extremely portable between both platforms . The idea is to finally end the dominance of sony when they release the ps3 . given the huge game catalog of the xbox , having thier next console almost compatable with it should boost their own catalog immedietly

[kidd]

got the psp already, anyone in perth wanna have a play can pm me and ill prob be able to let u have a go at ridge racer

[ookami]

should get one for my missus might keep her quiet on longish drives:D I killed like 2 gameboys when i was a kid, they rocked!! If their only like 200 bucks I'd have no problem spending that.

[32vspecII]

the ds is $199 but shop around for a pre order deal , i got $20 off when i got it with mario 64 and a free accessory pack with car charger and some other stuff .

pick it 8am thursday!

[32vspecII]

its ****ing cool !