[The One Winged Angel]

DS

Man its not that bad

[phantosanucca]

Alright! The first Nintendo system to come out in North America first!

[plaTinumCloud04]

hell yea i like it!

Here's some more details

Credit:Gamespot



Nintendo DS: $149 on November 21

Though it hasn't revealed the launch lineup, Nintendo announces that its dual-screen portable will ship first in the United States.

According to Reuters, Nintendo today announced that its forthcoming DS (or "dual screen") portable game system will be available in the United States in exactly two months. The system is reportedly slated for release on November 21 (which is actually a Sunday) for a suggested retail price of $149. This puts the system in the same relative price range as the current crop of consoles, but at nearly twice the cost of Nintendo's recently marked-down Game Boy Advance SP, whose software will be playable on the DS.

The Nintendo DS will release in Japan on December 2. Nintendo expects to ship about 4 million DS units worldwide by the end of the first quarter of 2005.



Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt, featuring four-player wireless play, will come bundled with every system. Launch software to be shown in October.

In an early-morning teleconference today, Nintendo executives Reggie Fils-Aime, George Harrison, and Perrin Kaplan released additional details on the launch of the Nintendo DS. Most importantly, Fils-Aime revealed that Metroid Prime Hunters: First Hunt, a playable demo of the upcoming DS title, will be bundled in with each Nintendo DS system sold this fall.

Metroid Prime: Hunters, a first-person shooter featuring four-player wireless multiplayer, will feature a number of improvements on the E3 version. As Nintendo software impresario Shigeru Miyamoto said in an E3 interview, the final game will feature a standard D-pad-and-buttons control scheme in addition to the stylus control shown off at E3. First Hunt should reflect this as well. "We've improved the playability and have done different things from the player-control standpoint," Fils-Aime said this morning. "The game has changed modestly for the better."

As for further details on the software launch lineup, Fils-Aime revealed this morning that Nintendo will show off the launch lineup to "key media and analysts" at the Gamers' Summit in Seattle in the first week of October. Nintendo was tight-lipped on the subject this morning, stating only that a total of 120 games, from both Nintendo and third parties, are currently in development. Also, as stated in the press release last night, PictoChat, the DS' own drawing-and-text-based chat utility, will be embedded in the DS hardware so all DS users will be able to chat wirelessly with each other--right out of the box.

Nintendo will reveal software pricing at a later date, but did state for now that the business model for DS software is "more attractive" to third parties than the GBA, which suggests a lower price point. Also suggesting a lower price point for DS media is the fact that a demo cartridge is packed in with the hardware. DS media was again confirmed to be 1GB in size.

George Harrison then addressed the marketing efforts that will be undertaken for the DS launch. More than 12,000 interactive DS demo units will be placed in mass-market and specialty stores. Some units, he commented, will actually feature two DS systems so players can experiment with the wireless functionality.

Harrison went on to comment that the DS will be backed by the largest launch budget that Nintendo has ever put behind one of its platforms, console or handheld--$40 million. Harrison also announced that the number of DS units that will be available across all territories during the fiscal year (which ends in March 2005) will be 4 million, up from the previously quoted figure of 3.5 million. Nintendo did not give specifics as to how this launch stock would be split among the four territories (US, Japan, Europe, and Australia) in which Nintendo plans to launch the system before the end of the 2004 fiscal year.

Fils-Aime also briefly commented on the PSP--more specifically, on the lack of any details on the system's launch at Sony's press conference today in Japan. "In many ways, what has transpired overnight does not surprise us," Fils-Aime said. "There has been a lack of detailed info on the PSP for quite some time, and we expect that to continue as they deal with their tough issues on battery life and other challenges."

(damn this is to sweet u get a demo and chat features bundle in right of the bat now thats pretty sweet)

[plaTinumCloud04]

Here's some more pictures of the DS's final design

http://dsmedia.ign.c...20104914260.jpg

http://dsmedia.ign.c...20104916884.jpg

http://dsmedia.ign.c...20104919197.jpg



EDIT -- Huge Pictures @_@ :laugh:

sorry^ :laugh:

also here's a pic of the metroid prime:hunters demo that will be included when you buy a DS!
http://dsmedia.ign.c...21104034365.jpg

This post has been edited by plaTinumCloud04: 24 September 2004 - 04:39 AM

[MENTAL]

sounds like you must go around looking for people who have a DS or have a bunch of friends that also have the DS. doesnt sound like its worth the $150 price tag to me considering i dont go to school anymore and dont have as many people i know who would have a DS.

but i do like the way it came out, it looks like a GBA/SP hybrid,
im curous to see how it works and how big the range is.

[plaTinumCloud04]

well i still think the price tag will be alot better the psp price tag (which will most likely will be in the 249 to 299 range)

[pg13]

They're just desperate not to get crushed by the PSP cuz they know they will, so they're releasing it here first.

[Squareslug]

PG-13, on Sep 24 2004, 01:05 AM, said:

They're just desperate not to get crushed by the PSP cuz they know they will, so they're releasing it here first.

Hahaha Nintendo is definately not afraid. I mean if you look at it already, the price for PSP is already too high for what it should have been. I think Sony made a major mistake putting all that unneccesary stuff in it. If it's goin to be as expensive as a system, is really worth it. I guess the portable dvd function kinda covers that since the stores sell those for around $200 dollars anyway. I didn't sign up for a dvd function though! Ah well, I don't know which one I want more, Nintendos' DS looks promising at that low price :|

[Fuji_Syusuke]

It's too expensive for a portable game console and I could probably get a much better palm pilot for that price. Some of the games look good, not to mention that it can produce stuff similar to the N64, but I still think the SP is better.

[Fanatik]

Hmm...gonna skip it til Metroid and Castlevania launch on it. Cause I promise you it's going to sink Nintendo.

[pg13]

Sony, god bless them for it, simply tries to incorporate too much into it.

Now, this may be motivated by money, or by the actual desire to offer a well built varied product. I believe it to be the second, but the PSP could do without the DVD option, since it only last for 2 1/2 hours when playing DVDs.

[Fanatik]

Wrong topic there PG

This one is for DS info only, not PSP vs DS