New DS Lite model "rumour and speculation

[wiggy fuzz]

if they add ram or cpu nintendo knows that it would cuase homebrew emulators to be of a better quality.

why is that such a bad thing? the homebrew community technically isn't doing anything fundamentally wrong. if people could emulate their favourite home consoles on the system wouldn't that help sales more (nintendo'd sell more ds units that way)

i hate the way companies try to restrict things like this, you spend good money on a product you like, you'd expect to be able to do as you please with - microsoft are like this, you buy a program and find you can't do as you please with it *cough vista*

emulation on the ds would make perfect sense - which is why the wii has virual console, nintendo can make a killing re-releasing past games from themselves and other consoles, it bothers me to understand why nintendo haven't cashed in on this themselves with the ds - although it's screen is a shade too small for proper snes emulation it has the perfect number of keys and layout

[Stash23]

And I found this...

[Da_ALC]

Okay, first of all, ram and memory are the same thing.
By removing the slot2 they HAVE to add the memory to make it backwards compatible for apps like the opera browser. The memory will NOT be for downloading GBA games. Nintendo (or anybody else for that matter) has never and will never make an updated version of a current console that is not compatible with every last game for that system. If they did they would be marketing idiots.
Look at the GBA Micro, smaller, dosent play GBC games, but still plays all the GBA games.

Personally I think that this has allot of merrit, but we really wont see it for years, and any design they do have they may play with in that time.
One thing that worries me is if the screens are indeed bigger, then the quality is going down. You cannot increase the resolution without some stupid-crazy filters and such, wich is pointless and they just wont do that,

What id like to see, better backlight still, anti-glare-nano-carbon coating on the screen, and better speakers. Oh and a built-in solar charger in the lid (why nobody has made a custom case like this allready I dont know.
Other than that smaller and lighter is allways welcome.

All of you with slot2 game launchers, nintendo has never supported these cards (or the slot1), so dont expect them to care that your "losing out".

Also, the DS is only just starting to kick off. Iwata has allready said hes breaking the current console life cycle. The reasons are more than obvious, it has taken this long for actually decent games like zeld and tony hawks to be made on the poor little weak DS. People are JUST figuring it out, so why would they replace it when it is just kicking off.

With the wii, from a development and marketing view, the Wii is an extention of the Gmecube. Towards the end of the cubes life we saw games Like Resi Evil 4 making damn good use of the console.. Developers just started to figure it all out nicelly... which is why the Wii is doing so well, as an extention of the gamecube, people llready know how to make games for it.
In the sence I wonder if this overall means a smaller or larger life cycle for the wii. Im guessing a larger, if not then a constant 2/3/4 stage backward compatibility. (Wii2 would play wii and cube games, wii3 would play wii2 wii1 and cube games, etc etc.)
This makes allot of sence.

[wiggy fuzz]

some games feature unlockable content via gba games inserted through the slot 2, so removing that would be out of the questiion, especially considering the sucess of pokemon and the number who own and trade with the gba versions

so removal of the gba slot in a potential ds update is a load of bull, i'd just settle with a new lite

[Da_ALC]

Wiggy I agree you are totally right I didnt think of that.
As for removing slot 2 for piracy? Have u been shopping recently, its all slot 1 now.