Topic: Nintendo Announces Trade Event in September

[TJ Spyke]

Is that a wish list? Because I don't see the second circle pad happening in the next iteration. Longer battery life is likely, MAYBE more system memory (though I think it's only a issue if you have several dozen DSiWare games), larger screen could happen, not sure about larger sweet spot for 3D.

[Chozo Ghost]

Rumble support

[Oblivion]

Who wants a rumbling handheld? No thanks.

[TJ Spyke]

Who wants a rumbling handheld? No thanks.

Women, LOL

[UncleBob]

I still want the dual game card slots that they supposedly messed with in one of the various iterations of the DS.  That would be awesome.  More on-board storage for DSiWare would be nice - but, in reality - I'd just prefer them to allow actual use of the SD cards for DSiWare storage.

The stylus *needs* to be moved back to the side of the system.  The headphone port could stand to be in a less annoying place and I wouldn't mind the return of a mic port.

[Chozo Ghost]

They should also add a USB port because when they took out the GBA slot from the DSi it really made peripherals like the guitar hero thing impossible. I realize the GBA slot is gone forever and will never return, but in its place they should put on a USB jack so that peripherals can be possible once again.

[NWR_insanolord]

Nintendo won't add a USB port to it. They'd consider it too much of a risk in terms of piracy. If they were going to add a peripheral port, and I doubt they will for several reasons, it would definitely be proprietary.

[Chozo Ghost]

But they've put USB ports on the Wii and apparently on the Wii U. What's the difference?

[NWR_insanolord]

With the Wii it was done before the whole homebrew scene exploded, and with the Wii U it's because it's specifically designed to connect to existing USB devices (hard drives).

[Mop it up]

I'm sure the IR port could be used for accessories in some such way.

[Adrock]

Larger screens and better battery life are givens with an inevitable redesign though I don't think we'll hear about one until next year. With the current design, there isn't much Nintendo can do to make it smaller and lighter besides replace the SD card slot with Micro SD. They might want to do that anyway. Nintendo will probably rearrange the placement of the things like the camera, mic and home/start/select buttons.

More RAM and the second analog stick are real possibilities. I, personally, wouldn't bet on it though.

[Ceric]

I would not be surprised if the next iteration we see a Die Shrink so it will take less power and space.  That allowing for  larger battery to drive the larger screens but still get better battery life then the original and a form factor that is just larger to accommodate the large screens.