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News \ Rumour: Successor to the DS to be as Powerful as the GameCube

We didn't hear much about the successor to the DS at last week's GDC, so naturally the post-conference rumour mill has begun to spin. According to Kotaku the DS's successor will be roughly as powerful as the GameCube.

That's hardly a surprise, and the rumour has been around almost as long as the DS. The GBA was approximately on par with the SNES and the DS is only a little behind the Nintendo 64; it doesn't take a genius to put it together. That would make it quite a bit more powerful than the PSP, and not that far off the Wii, as it's only a little more powerful than the GCN.

We've also heard that the next Nintendo handheld will once again feature two screens, but this time the gap between them will be minor. Essentially this means games could use them as one big screen, better than they currently do on the DS, with its gap you could park Grandpa's lorry on.

Developers are hinting that games for the yet to be announced system will be ready by year's end. That means we should expect an announcement at E3 in June.

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cordak
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hope it plays big games like mario galaxy or zelda windwaker.
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*sigh*.. if only..
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Tsunamo said:

JoshX999 said: If there ever will be a Kingdom Hearts on another Nintendo System, and God sez it's DS2. That will pwnzors BBS.

No, it wont but i'll buy it. Although, that would be a good system to release Kingdom Hearts Coded on.


Josh, could you please elaborate?


@ Tsuna

What do you mean exactly?
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DaveCage
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would be good if there is truth to it, it doesnt seem too far off the mark
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JoshX999 said: If there ever will be a Kingdom Hearts on another Nintendo System, and God sez it's DS2. That will pwnzors BBS.

No, it wont but i'll buy it. Although, that would be a good system to release Kingdom Hearts Coded on.
5 days ago
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pokemon12 said: 0_o, wow. And i wonder how much it will cost?



I don't know, but if its any good it will probably be really dear
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Matteh
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Ah, that would be very nice!

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If there ever will be a Kingdom Hearts on another Nintendo System, and God sez it's DS2. That will pwnzors BBS.
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Tsunamo said: I don't, the PSP can hold enough power to produce great games with about 2gb of space, so I honostly don't see why a next gen DS sucessor can't.

Yeah, if a PSP can perform graphically 5+ years ago (December 2004), then I'm not surprised that DS2 will do wonders in late 2010.
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It may not be the direct successor, but it will happen eventually
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I don't, the PSP can hold enough power to produce great games with about 2gb of space, so I honostly don't see why a next gen DS sucessor can't.
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0_o, wow. And i wonder how much it will cost?
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either way i'll be getting one of those for sure
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Yeah something just does'nt sound right bout it all
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I call BS!
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