sigh...

Nintendo, wii would like to play [it].

Nintendo DS SIX-AXIS Quadruple Shock Motion Sensing Phone?

the DS is selling strong. why change it?

my bet's new wii accessory. seriously, there's no limits to the number of plastic doohickeys nintendo can pump out for that thing.

I love how on Kotaku they make mention of the fact they said essentially the SAME REMARK the DAY BEFORE they revealed the DS Lite, and here at Gizmodo, a source I generally hold more moderated and credible, you forget your skepticism caps.

Dude, a triple screen hand held would suck. Good thing it will never happen.

@Lilinka: Good point. I totally forgot/didn't know about that!

'willyolio' has a good point, butI would posit that the Wii is selling fine itself. Could we perhaps finally see the true Gameboy successor that was promised ?

I know...I know...that was only a hedge against the DS NOT being the smash bang grand slam that it was/is. But remember, nintendo also wants to attract more serious/stoggy/adult users to their wares. Perhaps they've redirected their third pillar to be little more like the fabled pandora ? More Pim/media/business/communication oriented with a hardware KB, but retaining a fair amount of gaming utility perhaps ?

Even if they are still cooking up another handheld platform, they'd be wise to shelve it (retail box and all) for now. Any more excellent product lines and they stat canibalizing their own sales...

But a guy can dream...

Nintendo has outright lied to quash rumors that might hurt its sales before, even if they were blatantly true. When the DS was announced, everyone assumed it would replace the GBA, even though Nintendo emphatically denied this, maintaining that the DS was going to remain an entirely seperate tier from the GBA and the two would coexist together as different platforms. Well, that lasted less than a year, and the GBA is all but a dead platform.

Nintendo also tried to fake out their competitors after the Gamecube did poorly, by implying they might never again make a console and fade into licensing obscurity like Sega. We all know how that story turned out.

I would be extremely surprised if I don't find myself lined up outside of a Wal-Mart or Best Buy on a cold November 2010 morning to pick up the next Nintendo handheld, just in time for Super Mario Bros' 25th anniversary.

Man, who would WANT a new Nintendo system? I mean, haven't we all played enough Mario, Metroid, Kirby, and Smash Bros. games already? It's not like the old days when everyone was developing for Nintendo. These days, Nintendo cripples their hardware so much that developers seem to be avoiding it. The only thing that has made Nintendo consoles sell in the past few years is the gimmick for each console: Touch-screen for DS, Wiimote for Wii. All the games are just the same old games with the gimmick controls added.

I used to enjoy Nintendo's consoles, but they're lost right now. All originality is out the window. The gimmick control schemes don't do anything to enhance gameplay or create new franchises worth playing

It's enough to make you wish Master System or TG-16 had won the 8-bit generation (and yes, TG-16 was still an 8-bit console, despite the name.)

Just think what we'd have right now if we'd had the TurboGrafx 32, TurboGrafx 64, and the TurboGrafx HD instead of all the Nintendo consoles.

I'm so sick of Mario. I want to puke whenever I see him, now.

Is that guy wearing lipstick?

@ZeroCorpse: Yeah, seriously, why get a Nintendo console hanging onto over a dozen branded games when you can get an XBox 360 and play Halo III with it's prettier graphics and same "tap tap" game play.

/sarcasm

You have to admit though, the state of emulators on the DS has progressed very nicely. Virtually all GB, GBC, NES, SNES, Sega MS, Sega GG, Coleco, Spectrum games are playable and most/all of the < 4MB Sega Genesis. (all with save-state support). Other emulators include Atari 2600 (needs menu & save state support, but otherwise works great) and even TI calculators!

As great as the PSP is (with many times the processing power of the DS), it doesn't seem to have nearly the quality of emulators of the DS. (Please correct me if I'm wrong!)

I personally would love to see Nintendo simply give the DS a more power CPU (and hopefully co-processor like the GamePark GP2X F-200) and a bigger screen (but not much bigger as you want the DS to be pocketable).

It's going to be two full screen dual screen nintendo duh :O

@PigVenus:
the PSP can currently play PS1, Genesis, SNES, gameboy, GBAdvance, older consoles like spectrum. AND play movies. And PSP games. And soon it gets Skype, which will make it sort of a wi-fi iphone.

Just for the record, I own a DS which I've pimped up to play homebrew etc. I don't own a PSP. But fair's fair, the DS may have been winning so far, but Sony is coming back to the game with a vengeance.

all that said, first handheld to play MAME is mine.

JesusDeSad, get a WM6 phone - several decent MAME progs. God-awful buttons tho'