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Nintendo DS
Official Press Release From Nintendo
An unprecedented approach to video game play - holding two separate game screens in the palm of your hands - hits the scene later this year when Nintendo introduces a new portable game system, Nintendo DS (temporary name).
Today's announcement is just a glimpse of the additional features and benefits that will be shown in full at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles in May. Once fully revealed, players will see the innovative advance in game interaction.
From information made available today, players can look forward to being able to manage their game progress from two different perspectives, enhancing both the speed and strategy of the challenge. For example in a football game, you can view the whole game on one screen, while simultaneously focusing on an individual footballer's tackle or goal on the other screen. Players will no longer be forced to interrupt game play to shift perspective, such as moving from a wide shot to a close up, or alternating between a character's ongoing battle and a map of their environment. Nintendo DS makes it possible to perform the tasks in real time by simply glancing from one screen to the other.
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo president, explains: "We have developed Nintendo DS based upon a completely different concept from existing game devices in order to provide players with a unique entertainment experience for the 21st century"
Nintendo DS features two separate 3" TFT LCD display panels, separate processors, and semiconductor memory of up to 1 Gigabit. It is scheduled to launch worldwide before the end of 2004. In addition to Nintendo developed software, the company is in discussions with third party game developers around the world.
Nintendo DS will be marketed separately from the existing Nintendo Game Boy Advance portable system and Nintendo GameCube home console.
Seems an intreaging idea. Tho i can only see it being succesful if the developers see it as somethin to utilise in a positive way. For example i can imagine EA bringing out NFS for it and just using the second screen to display the course map. which is nothing new or even interesting. But if used in a novel way it could prove very interesting.
this sounds so stupid. you cant really look at both screens at once, so you would have to stop playing one screen and shift to the other. it may be a little faster with two screens, but its not really worth it. definatly a complete waste of money.
Jan-24-2004 21:46
Tranc3
tranceaddict in training
Registered: May 2002
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, US
Yeah read about this on PA, sounds pretty sweet. Gonna be nice having map view + battle view both displayed real-time
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this sounds so stupid. you cant really look at both screens at once, so you would have to stop playing one screen and shift to the other. it may be a little faster with two screens, but its not really worth it. definatly a complete waste of money.
Nah man any true gamer can look at both screens and still play well. In fact, there have been studies done on gamers that play FPS games, and they tend to be more aware of their surroundings than people who don't play video games at all. Good example of this is all my friends that play video games see the cigarrete burns when we go to a movie, but my non-gamer friends never notice it.
Jan-25-2004 08:05
sleepydragon
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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: doncaster, england
its hardly pratical though for a portable games system the gameboy u can pick up and take out this thing just looks like to much hassle
Jan-25-2004 21:59
Tranc3
tranceaddict in training
Registered: May 2002
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, US
quote:
Originally posted by sleepydragon
its hardly pratical though for a portable games system the gameboy u can pick up and take out this thing just looks like to much hassle
Looks like too much hassle? You've seen it?
Pics or stfu!
Jan-26-2004 01:58
DRM
I Choose Noise
Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Somewhere where it's raining
quote:
Originally posted by Tranc3
Looks like too much hassle? You've seen it?
It would be good for..? not much. should put that money into a better system than the Gamecube rolfz
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Jan-27-2004 01:01
sleepydragon
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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: doncaster, england
quote:
Originally posted by Tranc3
Looks like too much hassle? You've seen it?
Pics or stfu!
sorry u nob it LOOKS like to much hassle
u happy now u knew what i meant
Jan-28-2004 21:11
Tranc3
tranceaddict in training
Registered: May 2002
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, US
quote:
Originally posted by sleepydragon
sorry u nob it LOOKS like to much hassle
u happy now u knew what i meant
Err...no. Had I known what you meant I wouldn't have posted about that in the first place. And the emphasis on the "looks" still doesn't clarify.
Jan-29-2004 07:56
Tranc3
tranceaddict in training
Registered: May 2002
Location: Santa Cruz, CA, US
Maybe you meant "sounds?"
Jan-29-2004 08:02
Harmonic
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Registered: Jan 2004
Location: Jax, FL
quote:
Originally posted by Tranc3
Nah man any true gamer can look at both screens and still play well. In fact, there have been studies done on gamers that play FPS games, and they tend to be more aware of their surroundings than people who don't play video games at all. Good example of this is all my friends that play video games see the cigarrete burns when we go to a movie, but my non-gamer friends never notice it.
Oh yeah... my FPS buds are all like that. Paranoid too.
