Author: David Jones

EA’s just revealed its financial figures from the Q3 Christmas 2007 period (October - December), which shows the company making a whole lot more revenue than ever before.

When you break down the figures for handheld games, Nintendo DS was by far the most impressive performer, with sales up 122 percent from $55 million in Q3 2006 to $122 million.

EA released only five DS games during that time; Boogie, Need for Speed ProStreet, EA Playground, The Sims 2 Castaway and The Simpsons Game but still the DS sales accounted for eight percent of EA’s total turnover.

Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has been talking about the DS, Nintendo’s future plans for its games and the possibility of non-gaming services being made available to download to DS from public wi-fi hot spots around the country.

He also said “One of the lifestyle proposals we’d like to put into effect in the first half of this year is an experiment aimed at getting people to use their DSs in public spaces as part of a larger effort to make the DS a more helpful tool for people in their everyday lives.

He went on to say “It’s a portable, single-architecture platform that can receive anything given a wi-fi hot spot with over 20 million units in use in Japan and about the same amount in the US and Europe. I really think the idea of making it a gaming machine that’s also useful in your daily life is a good one, and
possible. We’ll be keeping an eye on the experiment’s results while hopefully increasing the number of places you can use your DS in progressive steps.”

Like the PSP’s satellite navigation add-on and the new Skype capabilities, the DS has also already had uses found for it in everyday life â?” language translation software is available for it and in Japan the console has been used to give tourists information when they are on museum tours. Meanwhile, a recent test in the US enabled users at a baseball game to order food as well as watch the game on their DS.

In his interview, Mr. Iwata also speaks about there original idea to do something different with both DS and the Wii.

He went on to say “We knew that if games appealed to fewer people, the future was going to be bleak. And with video games being demonised by the public, it was hard to see how games could flourish in all that. So we knew we had to change it… Hearing stories about customers who seemed like they’d never touch a game scouring store shelves for a copy of Brain Age is what encouraged us.”

The hardened gamer should rest easy. Iwata followed this up by saying that Nintendo would still support more experienced gamers by giving them games such as Zelda, and also more new challenging games although he thinks the benefit of pick-up-and-play titles is they allow experienced gamers to play with newcomers â?” something the CEO said was missing from the market.

So the future of DS is looking bright for the casual gamer and the hardened Nintendo supporter Exactly what we’ll be able to download to our DS in the future that’s useful remains to be seen. Money off coupons for Tesco? Maps? We hope that Nintendo has something a bit more exciting up its sleeve, which im sure it has!!!

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David is the owner of ConsolesMarket.com, which has thousands of consoles & games listed on the site at fantastic prices. http://www.consolesmarket.com . The site helps you compare the market as it has other merchants offering a full range of products for you to compare.

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Author: Alice Erin

The Nintendo DS Lite is an extremely innovative console and has superb interactivity facilitated with the help of the touch screen and a microphone which make it a very attractive and alluring portable gaming platform. The DS Lite comes with dual screen and an impeccable touch screen technology that gives you an amazing gaming experience.

It gives one an extremely enthralling interaction with the games. The real time multi-player game-play adds excitement and thrill to the fun filled gaming. This amazing gaming device is compact and stylish; it comes in dimensions of 133 x 73.9 x 21.5mm and weighs only 218 grams. So now you can play with style. The wireless communication facility enables one to experience real-time gaming, the free Nintendo Wi-Fi connection helps you to compete with different players across the world and have an exciting gaming experience.

It has two screens with a bright LCD display that provides one with the most advanced gaming features. Each screen is 3 inch wide and generates a real 3 dimensional view with extremely impressing renderings to give one a never-seen-before gaming experience.

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Nintendo DS Lite - the Gaming Galore

Author: Samuel Herrick

The Nintendo DS Lite is a dual-screen handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. This model is a slimmer, brighter, and a more lightweight redesign of the Nintendo DS, which is designed to be aesthetically sleeker while taking styling cues from the Game Boy Advance SP, to broader commercial audiences. Nintendo announced the launch of DS Lite on January 26, 2006, a month before the first launch in Japan.

The model got released in Japan, Australia, North America, Europe, New Zealand, Singapore, and defined regions in South America, the Middle East and Korea. The DS Lite gaming console made a sale of 34.93 million units worldwide by September 30, 2007. There is plenty of difference between the DS Lite over the original DS. The Nintendo DS Lite model comes with the dimensions of 133 mm Ö 73.9 mm Ö 21.5 mm and a weight of 218 grams that makes it a comfortable model. This model gaming console comes with an extended battery life. It could work for fifteen to nineteen hours with a fully charged battery. This model console is also brighter, with more durable top and bottom LCD screens with four levels of brightness.

This model is designed in such a way that it is more resistant to shock. The latest model console from Nintendo is side loaded and located next to the power switch making it easier to reach when needed. The model comes with a power button relocated to the right side of the device. The processors of this model are the same as the DS, but made on a smaller custom process so they require less power. It also has a built-in microphone located between the top and bottom screens of the DS Lite.

The DS Lite got launched in Australia in white colour. In North America, the Nintendo DS Lite was only available in white color on launch. On August 24, 2006, Nintendo announced two new model colours, Onyx (Jet Black) and Coral Pink (Noble Pink). In China, the “iQue DS Lite” was available in white and dark blue colours.

All colours released in Japan (Ice Blue, Crystal White, Noble Pink, Jet Black, Enamel Navy) are available for sale in Hongkong. In South Korea, this gaming console was launched in four colours including Crystal White, Ice Blue, Noble Pink, and Jet Black.

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Nintendo DS Lite, Latest Gadgets, Mobile Phone Comparison

Author: Adam Caitlin

The new Nintendo DS is a handheld game console from Nintendo that succeeded in invading the hearts of the game loving users with its striking features and characteristics. This gaming console released in 2004 in Canada, U.S., and Japan features a clamshell design, which is almost same to the Game Boy Advance SP, with two LCD screens inside, one of which is a touchscreen.

The Nintendo DS gaming console features a built-in microphone and supports wireless IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) standards, permitting players to interact with each other within short range (10â?"30 m, depending on conditions) or online with the Nintendo Wi-fi Connection service, that launched later in the console’s lifespan.

This model is the first game console from Nintendo that was released in North America prior to Japan. Nitro was the code name of the system and this can be seen in the model codes that appear on the unit. The console’s name officially refers to "Developers’ System", in reference to the new game design the system was meant to inspire, and "Dual Screen", the system’s most obvious feature.

It was on March 2, 2006, that Nintendo released the new DS Lite, a redesign of the Nintendo DS, in Japan resulting a new revolution in the field of gaming devices. It later got released in North America, Europe and Australia in June 2006. This latest model from Nintendo, DS Lite is the slimmer and lighter version of the DS and has brighter screens. Nintendo announced on the release of the new console on November 13, 2003. And it also clarified that it would not be the successor to either the Nintendo Game Cube or the Game Boy Advance SP, but will be a "third pillar" alongside the two consoles. The Nintendo DS bears a striking resemblance to Nintendo’s first handheld, the Game and Watch, specifically the multi-screen versions such as Donkey Kong.

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Adam Caitlin is expert author of Telecommunication industry. He had written some good quality articles on mobile phones, cheap laptops and Nintendo DS