20th January 2004, 9:41 PM
More details from Game-Science:
Quote:Nintendo today confirmed preliminary details of their new game machine. The hype has been in constant flow for the past couple of months, but now firm details have been announced.
The Nintendo DS will be a portable game machine with two displays, both upper and lower screens being 3 inch colour TFT and backlit. Additionally the machine will be powered by 2 processors - the main one being ARM9-based and the sub-processor being ARM7-based. Software will come on semiconductor-based media up to 1 Gigabit in size.
As has always been stated, Nintendo hope to create a new kind of experience with this machine - specific examples being in a soccer game or an RPG you may see the full field on one screen, while having a close up of the player's character on the other screen. Of course, both screens can be used together as a single big screen if developers wish, but the core idea is to make games that give the player a deeper sense of involvement.
Nintendo plan to have a playable machine debuting at E3 in Los Angeles this May, and then to release the DS worldwide before the end of 2004.