Widescreen DS refresh on the way?

[wraggster]

Nintendo might be cranking out new DS Lite colors left and right, but IGN says something bigger's brewing in Kyoto -- a third iteration of the DS with dual touchscreen displays, one of them widescreen. Those are pretty significant changes, so we'd actually say that sounds more like a second-gen DS rather than another rev of the current hardware, but IGN says the rumored release date of April or May 2009 doesn't jive with a whole new unit. We'll see when we see -- hopefully we won't be waiting long.

PS.- That's just IGN's mockup, don't get too excited.

via engadget

[masterchief929]

meh... i have heard this rumor multiple times.

[gutbub]

Haven't we already seen this? I think it was back in May or sometime around then. Then everybody said that Nintendo couldn't use that design, as the artist was a $#@!. Still looks cool though.

[unholy3000]

comon guys this is extremely old XD they just took the iphone and photoshoped it or some$#@! like that XD you guys are funny to believe this garbage

lmao

[puslar_t]

Any significant alterations to the handheld and it's automatically a full-fledged successor, meaning that even if backwards compatibility is there it has to be marketed as a new gadget (e.g. DS2)

[ICE]

comon guys this is extremely old XD they just took the iphone and photoshoped it or some$#@! like that XD you guys are funny to believe this garbage

lmao

That picture is just an example... No one thinks its a real ds..

[iofthestorm]

A DS2 would be nice, it's been a while and the DS could use a bit more graphical horsepower. Dual touch screens would be useful too.

[royvedas]

I hope the old games, if backwards compatible, won't have the graphics forcably stretched on the widescreen. My eyes are eternally displeased with image stretching.

[wiggy fuzz]

give it an OLED screen, or one that doesn't wither in bright sunlight...

[Auriman1]

give it an OLED screen, or one that doesn't wither in bright sunlight...

Agreed. That's one thing that has bothered me about both the DS and PSP, their low tolerance of outdoor lighting. Also, widescreen doesn't matter to me, but it could be troublesome, and slightly larger screens would be a nice alternative (I still prefer playing GBA games on my original GameBoy Advance compared to the DS since the screen's slightly larger, and it can be played in sunlight without problems)