New Nintendo DS purportedly confirmed for tomorrow

You know how it goes -- first comes the far-out rumor, then comes something a touch more believable, and then the company itself issues an all-too-familiar non-denial denial. According to MCV sources, the next step in the process will happen tomorrow, as a revamped DS storms into action at 5:00AM GMT on the 2nd of October. As for specifics, we'll have to wait for Iwata's supposed announcement to find out more, but we'd be utterly shocked to see this ship after Christmas. That is, if this isn't just some elaborate scheme from the Big N to distract us all from realizing that Wiis will still be impossible to find this holiday season two full years after launch.

[Image courtesy of Parade, thanks Michael]

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 1st 2008 2:32PM]

Oh goodie--yet another thing for my kids to ask for for Christmas. :) Maybe it will suffer the same fate as the Wii and I can just tell the kids it's all sold out. :)

[spongebob92 Posted Oct 1st 2008 2:44PM]

:'(

Speaking as a child, thats so depressing to hear :P

Evil santa! *hissssssss*

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 1st 2008 2:33PM]

Soooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Nintendo is releasing what the PSP was 3 years ago?

Why is this even news?

[Android Overlord Posted Oct 1st 2008 2:50PM]

I bought DS in august as part of my birthday so I'm incredibly miffed. I suppose if its better with new advancements then ill trade but only if it has backwards compatibility, although new media format besides from cartridges would be nice.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 1st 2008 3:07PM]

microSDHC support perhaps?

[ehisforadam Posted Oct 1st 2008 4:27PM]

MicroSD support would be great! Cut out the need for something like an R4 to pirate games!

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 1st 2008 2:46PM]

How about adding support for WPA security?

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 1st 2008 3:03PM]

YES!
i don't care, i only have a ds, wii, 3 macs, and a (currently) bsd box so i just run wep. but every time my nefew comes over with his psp which only supports wpa it presents a headache. so that, or i suppose psp should adopt wep.

[XIYL Posted Oct 1st 2008 3:23PM]

@EMoShuntz

The PSP supports WEP, it originally only supported WEP. Plus its actually really easy to set up connections on the PSP.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 1st 2008 3:37PM]

@xitl
so a firmware upgrade would fix it? if so, you are awesome, thank you!

[cobaltage Posted Oct 1st 2008 3:15PM]

I'm guessing wireless-G, some form of flash memory adapter cartridge, improved battery life, better speakers, and possibly a bump in in the LCD screen.

[Gabe Posted Oct 1st 2008 3:21PM]

microsdhc is supported by the M3 Real card :)

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 1st 2008 4:01PM]

Take off every 'Zig.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 1st 2008 4:11PM]

New DS almost sure to include:

1) Capacitive touch screen, no stylus.
2) Wii-sensitive Accelerometer
3) Bigger screen(s).

Imagine playing a game like LocoRoco on it. This is what I was waiting for.

[Plothole Posted Oct 1st 2008 4:46PM]

1. That would really **** with the backwards compatibility. There are too many games that need the precision of a stylus.

[wshwe Posted Oct 1st 2008 4:13PM]

There are no acceptable excuses for Nintendo not producing enough Wiis to fulfill demand. People should be able to walk in to any retail store that's supposed to sell the Wii and walk out with a Wii nearly 100% of the time.

[Charbax Posted Oct 1st 2008 6:29PM]

They are making nearly 2 million Wiis each month. Pretty huge number actually. That's like 67 thousand Wiis each day. That's like $15 million worth of Wii consoles each day. Consider it for a sec. That's already huge amount of factories China full of Chinese workers working 24 hours a day in shifts.

[LoserSaysTim Posted Oct 1st 2008 8:27PM]

The new DS will definitely not be in stores before Christmas. They're in production but shouldn't be ex-China until mid-October - cutting it too fine for a decent holiday season, so it's likely that Nintendo will avoid making consumer enemies with exclusivity and will push back any releases until at least January.

[LocalToast Posted Oct 1st 2008 8:22PM]

Man, saving up for a computer will be a lot harder with a $200 chunk taken out of my budget.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 1st 2008 10:44PM]

I should have a unit in my hands this friday to start testing. From what I hear it will just have a new insta-charge battery or something like that that will make it so you only have to charge it for FIVE minutes.

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 7th 2008 1:37PM]

I swear that's my cat, my old roommate's DS. I swear I took that picture. You guys raid facebook much?