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What the next DS should include
September 10th, 2008 by admin
The rumor mill’s barking again that we’ll see another Nintendo DS in early 2009 with slightly larger screens and each one touchable, but what do we really want from a new Nintendo handheld? Swappable storage? Custom media playback? A better, sleeker, user-friendlier operating system? High-speed cellular wireless support? iPhone-like capabilities?
Well, what’s the competition up to? Sony’s PlayStation Portable obviously tops the DS in the “oomph” department, and it’s hard to argue with Sony’s widescreen 480 x 272 resolution 16.77 million color screen compared to the DS’s grainier 256 x 192. It’s also rather dramatically more customizable, Nintendo DS Blog says with its award-winning XrossMediaBar (XMB) allowing you to fiddle everything from photo slideshows and video files to RSS channels, streaming TV, an embedded microbrowser, and a Skype WiFi phone.
The DS, by comparison, only plays games, disregarding a handful of negligible accessories (remember the Rumble Pak?) and oddities I’ve never personally found a use for like PictoChat. You can add a media-crippled (but otherwise reasonably elegant) browser to the DS courtesy Opera, but it’ll set you back thirty bucks (the PSP’s browser is inbuilt).
Going off the assumption that mobile users want more from less without that “more” kludging up the interface, size, or overall weight of a totable games console, what should the next Nintendo DS include?
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