What Would You Like on a New DS ?

[wiggy fuzz]

faster processor and more ram - for the sake of homebrew. and a larger res screen (for the nes emulator)

but of course i'm only saying this because i was just using NesterJ on the psp

[____anders____]

better hardware specs of course, and the ability to transfer VC games like pcwzrd13 suggested would be cool too.

larger screens and built in memory, and cool useful apps like the psp has a webbrowser built in from the start to make good use of Wifi..

that's just the start

[boy1der]

wifi pictochat, universal wifi buddy list

[Vii_itim]

the external is perfect
i think what the DS needs it's a tiuch screen like the iphone's
where you can touch in diferent places and be more resisitent

(sorry about the english, i'm brazilian)

[Aryn]

I would like the DS to have a better compatibility with wireless networks and built in PDA functionality. Besides that simply giving the DS the same capabilities as the Wii (minus the wiimote, of course) would be excellent.

[masterchief929]

ok, i have something really cool called 1 gig of internal memory! lol and a usb port. wireless anywhere wi-fi, like if nintendo teamed up with cingular, say $10 a month, or $50 a year.

[Zense]

I'm really sorry that this got really messy and exhaustingly long

The features I think they should add are:
-COMPLETE hacker free wfc play.
-Multi-touch touchscreen
-More Ram
-Better graphics possibilities(better texture rendering or something so that it doesn't look too pixelated)
-I think cartridges should stay, or maybe they can do a big twist and make all games downloadable and stored internal memory. This would make production cost for games much cheaper. But so that people won't have to have a credit card to buy games, I think they should make some wireless service at gamestores which lets you access a list of games or other programs which you can download.
And then you pay the store-guy for the game and get something like a verification key which you then enter on your ds2 and get access to the game. They should make a steam like program so that you won't have to have all your games on your ds2 all the time or that nintendo will have to make game storage cartridges and make the "buy games online" pointless. You can then choose which games you want on your ds2 whenever you have internet access.
I think the ds2 should have maybe room for 8 games at a time so that it won't get so expensive considering memory.
-Other features concerning wifi like the people before have said like wifi pictochat etcetera.
-It would be nice if nintendo made the external bart less of a fingerprint-identifier. I'm not saying that they should improve/change the material. Like, they could ship the ds2 with a rubber-protection case.
-No doubt a better stylus
-I like your ideas about having virtual console on it, but it almost sound as if you want it to be virtual console games exclusively, which would have been cool too, but I don't want the next ds to be this. Maybe they could call it the Nintendo Portable Virtuality(PV) or Handheld Virtuality(I guess you can't have console in its name since, if I'm not wrong, console is the term for a gamesystem you use on tv). There should be a option to transfer the games you've already bought for the wii to your handheld vcon. This should also be protected really good so that only you who have bought the games can get them on your handheld vcon to prevent mass copying of games. You should get the opportunity to transfer games from you hvcon to wii too I guess.
- I guess this is a lot to ask, but maybe the internal storage could be in the new highspeed ssd format, which they are talking about.
Things they shouldn't add/do:
-Let it use a disc format for their games/vidoes which is made uniquely for the ds, so that you can't use it on other things. If they really want to store games externaly then I want them to do it on a cartridge, not a compactdisc-type
-Prioritate(correct me if that isn't a word) graphics over gameplay.
- I can't come up with anything more...

[Silas]

Hmm...
How about it:

-Processors:
Arm9 with 120 mhz
Arm7 with 66 Mhz

-The Graphics engine similar of game cube, don't need to be as powerfull as.
Only one screen 256x640 which could be "touched"( not 512 because some games will lost part of graphics, as yoshi's island 2, and even Zelda PH.)
Compatible with ealier 3D games making them run at full 60 fps with extra graphics filtering of new hardware 3D engine!

-Ram: 8MB of RAM; 4 of VRAM.

-Tv out: Since now it have only one screen, the games for it could be in your tv easily, The earlier DS games could have a option: "only the bottom of screen", "only the top of screen", "full screen".

-A better D-pad, or just add a good analogic.


I think this specifications should keep the DS's inovation, add better graphics and continuing with a good price.
But how could it have a good design???It's good question...

[Roguemango]

Hmm...
How about it:

-Processors:
Arm9 with 120 mhz
Arm7 with 66 Mhz

-The Graphics engine similar of game cube, don't need to be as powerfull as.
Only one screen 256x640 which could be "touched"( not 512 because some games will lost part of graphics, as yoshi's island 2, and even Zelda PH.)
Compatible with ealier 3D games making them run at full 60 fps with extra graphics filtering of new hardware 3D engine!

-Ram: 8MB of RAM; 4 of VRAM.

-Tv out: Since now it have only one screen, the games for it could be in your tv easily, The earlier DS games could have a option: "only the bottom of screen", "only the top of screen", "full screen".

-A better D-pad, or just add a good analogic.


I think this specifications should keep the DS's inovation, add better graphics and continuing with a good price.
But how could it have a good design???It's good question...

So basically....make it a PSP?

[Silas]

So basically....make it a PSP?

Not quite a psp. Because it will still less processing power and ram than a psp. But with a good 3d hardware engine should produce the same graphical result, with a minor cost than a psp.

By the way, I starting to think that DS only is really needing are texture filters. Nintendo could do it using software rendering. But it must be a hard task for DS...