Nintendo to Bring Music, Video to DS!!

Peteee

Clicky Clicky

Well i didnt see this coming!!!

Knee jerk reaction to PSP???

I seem to remember Nintendo being a 'games' company.

Of course, theres one question that i think we must all ask

HOW LONG WILL THE BATTERY LAST??

jesus_thats_gre

Peteee wrote:

I seem to remember Nintendo being a 'games' company.

They have been criticised for being a only "games" company by some.. If they think it will increased sales and competition for Sony, then why the hell not?

mp3guy

that's cool, looks like my old gba movie player is gonna be replaced, besides the fact it plays nes roms

Peteee

jesus_thats_gre wrote:

They have been criticised for being a only "games" company by some.. If they think it will increased sales and competition for Sony, then why the hell not?

Why the hell not indeed!

I was just pointing out that it seems like a big 'about face' for them to be concerned with mp3's and the like, after pretty publicly saying that they are a games company, that games consoles dont need to have DVD players, becuase they are games consoles etc etc

jesus_thats_gre

right so..

Tusky

I think the most interesting thing about this is that the the new nintendo console will most likely play dvds and cds seeing as the DS will play music and video !

savemejebus

Tusky wrote:

I think the most interesting thing about this is that the the new nintendo console will most likely play dvds and cds seeing as the DS will play music and video !

wasn't there a japanese gamecube that did that already, the panasonic Q or something like that?

i_am_dogboy

Gets a big meh from me. I never used any of my consoles for anything other than playing games, and I don't think that will change much with the DS. I think this is more a push from the marketing than the creative people to be honest and pretty much as knee jerk as you can get. But as long as the media doesn't take preference over games I'm still gonna play nintendo games.

savemejebus

I don't know about it being knee jerk, the fact that it caters for the Gameboy advance sp would kinda remove it from the whole DS vs PSP thing. In my view anyway, Nintendo have a history of adding accessories to portable systems so i figured (a while ago, when the tvtuner came out) that this was gonna be coming

jesus_thats_gre

savemejebus wrote:

wasn't there a japanese gamecube that did that already, the panasonic Q or something like that?

yup

Rew

Peteee wrote:

Clicky Clicky

Well i didnt see this coming!!!

Knee jerk reaction to PSP???

I seem to remember Nintendo being a 'games' company.

Not a s big a shock as you might think.

Thy have been selling video content on GBA carts for a while now. They have gotten in to movie production recently. There has been a 3rd party GBA video adapter similar to this selling like wild fire for a while now.

Personally I dont want it unless it has specfic DS support (ie touch screen controls and the video is smaller then the DS screen like GBA games are).

savemejebus

savemejebus wrote:

wasn't there a japanese gamecube that did that already, the panasonic Q or something like that?

it's ridiculously expensive though!

savemejebus

it is expensive alright but (from my 30 mins googling it seems that) thats mainly cos it's discontinued, only available on import/modded and was very much a niche item. In 2002 it cost $300 which i don't think was too far off xbox money.

Still looks like a great piece of kit, maybe if it had been released all over it could have given the xbox and ps2 serious competition. (commercially i mean, the gamcube owns the others in the gaming stakes imo)

Peteee

I was under the impression that all the other gameboy 'tv tuners' and the like were third party hard ware addon's???? Whereas this is an official nintendo addon.

I'm surprised that if they had this planned all along they didnt make the screens widescreen (ala PSP)

Then again i havnt owned a gameboy since the first one (ahhh teris)

projectmayhem

when the ds vs psp thing first came about everyone was going on about the ds being better because "nintendo are innovative and fresh". yes, sure they are.

Peteee

http://ds.ign.com/articles/573/573999p1.html

Article about it here

Gangsta

projectmayhem wrote:

when the ds vs psp thing first came about everyone was going on about the ds being better because "nintendo are innovative and fresh". yes, sure they are.

they are innovative n fresh. They invented everything gaminwise.

I think its a good addition and its only to increase functionality which in turn will obviously sell more units. the DS is selling very well without it, I wonder what's the figures going to be like now that the people who didn't buy the DS because of the lack of these features now do buy it.

Rew

It looks like its a GBA extension more then a DS one, but im sure a DS specfic one will come up.

The DS is more "innovative" then a PSP. A PSP is a PS2 crossed with an N-Gauge (not to mention the gizmodo and GP32), both have been around a while now, but that dosnt take anything from the PSP by all acounts its a nice machine, just nothing new.

Zhane

and touch screen is new? iv a touch screen palm organiser, and the novelty gets old REAL fast.

Tusky

Zhane wrote:

and touch screen is new? iv a touch screen palm organiser, and the novelty gets old REAL fast.

does your touch screen palm orginiser play games ?

When joypads first came out did people say " Ive got butons just like that on my kettle, its nothing new "

no...because thats stupid.

Rew

Zhane wrote:

and touch screen is new? iv a touch screen palm organiser, and the novelty gets old REAL fast.

My DS has a touch screen and the novelity hasn't warn off mainly due to the novel use of the touch screen. I played games on my Palm's and on my PocketPC's but none really made decnt use of the hardware.

The DS as a package is pretty novel, I dont think anyone saw the the thumb strap thing coming. Its an evolution of a few technologies encorporating what Nintendo reckon is good about handhelds. I was playing XY/XX earlier and was blowing (on the mic) a sailing boat accross 2 screens. Surprisingly entertaining.

sound_wave

Rew wrote:

. I was playing XY/XX earlier and was blowing (on the mic) a sailing boat accross 2 screens. Surprisingly entertaining.

this is why i love Nintendo consoles! i mean who else whould take this approach to a game?

Zhane

Tusky wrote:

does your touch screen palm orginiser play games ?.

it does actually.