May 11, 2004

First Shot of Nintendo DS

USA Today has the first screenshot of the Nintendo dual-screen gaming handheld. Sounds like it will include a touch sensitive stylus for one of the screens and bluetooth wireless technology with the graphics power of around the level of the Nintendo 64. I'm a bit skeptical on how much of an advance this is over the Gameboy Advance *cough* and how it will succeed vs. the Sony PSP. Why Nintendo! Why couldn't you have done the obvious thing and come out with a portable Gamecube instead of an incremental machine such as this? Read