Nintendo unveils brand new DS

**iofthestorm** · October 9th, 2008, 03:28

Originally Posted by jaybud4

You have to realize that there's PLENTY about this they're not announcing yet.
For instance, it very well could (and probably does) have plenty of internal RAM. It would have to if it has a built in internet browser.
As for rumble, could also be internal. We don't know for sure.
And they could even provide a "Virtual GBA" ala the Virtual Console...
I'll be buying it, even with a lack of GBA.

Aaand, you're right! http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/ne...than-ds/?biz=1
I called it too, this was pretty obvious since the original Opera required that RAM expansion in the GBA slot. I'm guessing they also have WiFi and CPU upgrades that they haven't told us about, mainly because the casual masses don't care about those kinds of things, but we do. At the least more RAM opens up a ton of possibilities for homebrew, even if at first it is blocked by Nintendo. A better CPU would just be icing on the cake. DSLinux, here I come!

**db73** · October 9th, 2008, 09:54

There still seems to be a lot of mis-information about the DSi floating around on the net. People are still talking about 3MP camera, dual touch screens, details of the region-locking etc. There are some decent resources out there that confirm some details including an English translation of the Nintendo press conference were the DSi was announced. From this it is clear that the camera is infact 300,000 pixels meaning 0.3MP & not 3MP as speculated on some sites.
http://uk.youtube.com/results?search..._date_uploaded

The region-locking announcement has thrown up some questions. I don't think we yet have a concrete answer to some of these;

Will current commercial DS/DS Lite cards work on the DSi regardless of where they are from? Or will these be blocked by the new hardware?

Will future DS/DS Lite cards also still work on the DSi unless they are DSi specific i.e. that utilise new features of the DSi? Or will all future cards be region locked?

**wiggy fuzz** · October 9th, 2008, 18:41

fits in with nintendo's ethos, that "if you bought a ds or a wii, you wouldn't care about specs.

when you're talking a few extra megabits of ram, it wouldn't be much to really shout about.