Nintendo MP3 player for DS coming this fall?

Music-hungry Nintendo fanboys in Japan have already been able to get their fix in the form of the Play-Yan adapter for the DS and Game Boy Advance/Micro, but it looks like the rest of us might soon be able to rock some beats between bouts of New Super Mario Bros as well if this latest bit of info pans out. According to a brochure that reportedly surfaced at the Leipzig Games Convention, Nintendo is set to release an MP3 player adapter for the DS and Game Boy Advance this fall -- October 6th to be specific (in Europe, at least) -- and like the Play-Yan, the add-on will use SD cards (up to 2GB) for storage and have its own headphone port, although it apparently lacks the Play-Yan's video capabilities. Price is reported to be €30, or just under forty bucks, although there's still no official word from Nintendo, which we'd guess would be coming fairly soon if that release date is solid.

[Via Joystiq]

[Normgarry @ Sep 4th 2006 12:26PM]

Had I been nintendo, I would have simply included a proprietary memory card slot into the side of the DS and then sold SPECIAL NINTENDO DS MUSIC SECURE DIGITAL CARDS.

That would have ensured that not only would the DS Lite sell - since it was going to anyway...I'd be able to sell more products to make the Lite a convergence device.

That's what the future of portable gadgets is about. CONVERGENCE.

SONY PSP did it almost right when they launched a propreitary UMD, followed by Proprietary UMD movies. Now, they've altered that a little by offering SONY 2 GB memory sticks loaded with movies rather than UMD formats.

SONY has allways understood convergence and that's why most people have their product in their houses.

I am not sending business across the street when I could just as easily sell them a bunch of products with my name on it and make them subsistent on me.

The only other company who does this right is APPLE/ iPod.

[Abe @ Nov 22nd 2006 9:34PM]

Well thank god you don't run Nintendo, because then it might be like Sony, and look where Sony is nowadays. Their "convergence" has produced all sorts of defunct, useless, overpriced crap like the memory stick pro duo and the UMD and ATRAC3.

[nywing @ Sep 4th 2006 12:27PM]

I'm actually more interested in getting to know the Play-yan character (that stickman) after playing rythm tengoku

[fischju @ Sep 4th 2006 12:28PM]

please dont buy this. get a supercard $40, gbamp $20, or M3 $70.

[Adam Williams @ Sep 4th 2006 1:51PM]

Why would someone buy that when they could just get a GBA/DS flash cart which would also play homebrew, backups and video on top of the music playing capability...?

[Leo @ Sep 4th 2006 1:53PM]

Why bother - you can get loads of other stuff in adapters like the GBAMP, M3 or Supercard - and the added bonus is the M3 Team have come out with loads of different adapters, including one that fits flush with the DSLite (mine arrived today).

Visit the site linked under my name for more info.

Leo

[K @ Sep 4th 2006 3:40PM]

Why would Nintendo want to create proprietary memory cards? Nintendo doesn't need to stoop to such levels, like Sony did with the Pro Duo. The Wii is all ready using SD cards, so why wouldn't the Lite do the same?

[Gio - NYC @ Sep 5th 2006 11:47AM]

What??? it never played mp3's in the first place?

[J S @ Sep 6th 2006 12:28AM]

Nintendo is on the right track. Done correctly they can possibly grab share from iPod.

How? Follow the Microsoft Xbox strategy .. Get the high end popular games makers help to subsidize the cost of the DS. This would enable Nintendo to sell the mp3 players at a much vastly price. Of course that would mean games are slightly more expensive.

[ShadowPhoenix82 @ Jan 29th 2007 7:58PM]

Well, I'd say that is a poor example of convergience, Normgarry. It's not converging with anything when the new product can only be used with one piece of hardware. My friends are often pleased by the fact that their cell phone, camera, and portable system all use the same format to exchange information, and I would be too.

My personal preference is SD, and if the DS Lite had a built in SD slot, I'd be ecstatic. But if I had to buy cards that can only be used in that device...well, that'd be less exciting.

Indeed, it IS all about convergience, and about blending everything into one. A universal remote is a proper example of convergience, Norm. I think the word you're looking for is "dissention".

[letterman @ Jun 6th 2007 12:57AM]

is this a erupiean site lol
sorry i was trying to find ou when it was avalible for usa
sorry