Nintendo's video on demand service, planned to launch in Japan sometime this year, might not just be limited to the Wii. According to Nintendo president Satoru Iwata, it may also come to the Nintendo DS.
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All things considered, we found the DSi to be an overall worthwhile update to the DS Lite. Although we do miss backwards compatibility via the GBA slot, it is a reasonable tradeoff for access to the DSi Shop and SD card support. Ultimately, it'll come down to how much each individual user values those features, but all-in-all we think the DSi is worthy of the $169.99 down.
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we're hearing now that a refresh is indeed inbound and should be debuting in April or May of 2009. Additionally, we've learned that the revised DS will not only incorporate touch functionality on both screens, but also widescreen aspect ratios. At this point, it's hard to tell whether the redesign will be simply another DS iteration or the DS 2. The new display functionality and shape could either support old titles or require all new ones exclusively.
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The new color joins a palette of seven individual DS colors, including Polar White, Onyx (Jet Black), Coral Pink, Crimson/Black, Cobalt/Black, Metallic Rose, and not Metallic Silver.
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"Developer White Birds, founded by PC adventure game creator Benoît Sokal (Syberia) and French publisher Focus have announced Last King of Africa, a new DS adventure title that will rework Sokal's 2006 PC title Paradise for handhelds".
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"The latest issue of Famitsu has the first report on an original DS RPG being developed by Image Epoch and set to be published by Sega. Titled World Destruction, the game is drawing lots of attention due to its staff, which includes people who worked on Xenosaga, Chrono Trigger, Grandia and Final Fantasy VII."
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The EA announced a new called game Zubo, for Nintendo DS. The copyright appeared as resulted of a project for the development of a game for boys and girls of 7-11 years. Zubo will be a game of musical action, where the player will have to assist called creatures Zubos to exempt the world of frightful the Zombos.
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Dubbed a " fireworks-themed shooter" by the press release, Big Bang Mini tasks players with destroying enemies overhead using stylus strokes and dazzling explosives. When it launches this Fall, you'll discover Big Bang Mini is infused with four gameplay modes, a handful of multiplayer options and over 90 levels to explore and explode.
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Hoping to get the jump on any attempt from Nintendo to bring features made popular on the Wii and Xbox 360, Disney is adding a feature called DGamer to future Nintendo DS titles. The first game to support the DGamer service will be The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian bringing the Disney equivalent of Miis, Achievements (called "Honors") and an online Pictochat-esque instant messaging app.
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Stéphan Bole, General Manager of Nintendo France : NDS sell 2.2 Million in France in 2007, breaking it's own last year record (1.4m for 2006) LTD for other console : PS2: 5.5m DS: 4.2m X360: 500k (not sure whether only in 2005 or since launch. Can France speaking member confirm this ??) PS3: 500k Xbox: 750k
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