Nintendo DS final design revealed

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Nintendo DS - final hardware design revealed

Tom Bramwell 09:16 28/07/2004
Ninty takes the wraps off a new, slimmer look for its forthcoming
handheld


Nintendo has unveiled a new look for the Nintendo DS handheld console
and confirmed the final product name, with the console is still on
track for release in North America and Japan late this year, and
Europe in Q1 2005.

In a release issued early this morning, the company wrote: "Nintendo
DS, originally chosen as the code name, has been selected as the
official product name. The Nintendo DS name evokes the idea of a
portable system with dual screens, providing the rationale for the
final name."

The new design, which you can see on this page, is the result of
Nintendo's search for "a slimmer, sharper look", and one more in tune
with an older audience - echoing the company's design for the GBA SP
in many ways. It's certainly more akin to the PSP than it is to the
unit which was unveiled at E3.

The DS now sports a thinner, black base and angular platinum flip-top
cover, with larger face and shoulder buttons than the E3 unit, some of
which have been "reconfigured for optimum use". The unit also gains a
storage slot for the stylus, which was missing from the E3 unit, and
we're told that the speakers now broadcast in stereo, with or without
headphones.

Earlier this month, we reported [claims from Japanese retail sources]
that the system would be out in Japan on November 4th priced around
140 Euro, following in the US a week later on the 11th for the
equivalent of 145. Euro The same sources projected five or six launch
titles.

Nintendo has yet to officially confirm a date or pricing for the
system's launch later this year, but is expected to do so shortly. As
for the launch line-up, all we know for certain is that "more than 120
Nintendo DS games [are] in development" with more than 100 companies
signed up, and that "Nintendo alone is developing more than 20
titles."

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