Topic: BREAKING: DS to be buttonless!!??

[jasonditz]

maybe because there's going to be overlap?

Like not everyone who owns a GBA owns a Gamecube, and yet they did connectivity.

[vudu]

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Like not everyone who owns a GBA owns a Gamecube, and yet they did connectivity.

ask nintendo if they would like it if everyone who owned a gba bought a gamecube.  i bet i know their answer.  

[jasonditz]

Ask Nintendo if they expected everyone who owns a gba to buy a gamecube. Bet I know that answer too...

[vudu]

that's hardly the point.  the point was you said it didn't make sense for nintendo to target the same group with the ds and the gba, which i disagree with.  whichever the consumer chooses, i'm sure nintendo will be happier if it's one of their systems, and not the psp/n-gage/zodiac/etc.

by and by, e3 is less than 48 hours away ... shouldn't a picture of the ds system and/or a screen shot of a ds game been leaked by now?  nintendo's really doing a great job of keeping this thing under wraps until the official unveiling.

[Stimutacs Addict]

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Originally posted by: kingvudu
that's hardly the point.  the point was you said it didn't make sense for nintendo to target the same group with the ds and the gba, which i disagree with.  whichever the consumer chooses, i'm sure nintendo will be happier if it's one of their systems, and not the psp/n-gage/zodiac/etc.

by and by, e3 is less than 48 hours away ... shouldn't a picture of the ds system and/or a screen shot of a ds game been leaked by now?  nintendo's really doing a great job of keeping this thing under wraps until the official unveiling.

I know, isn't the press conference tomorrow? How has something not gotten out? Usually IGN has stuff early, like the day before the press conference at E3 2001 the GCN logo leaked ...  i remember that fondly
 

[jasonditz]

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Originally posted by: kingvudu
that's hardly the point.  the point was you said it didn't make sense for nintendo to target the same group with the ds and the gba, which i disagree with.  whichever the consumer chooses, i'm sure nintendo will be happier if it's one of their systems, and not the psp/n-gage/zodiac/etc.

The thing is, most people don't own multiple consoles.

I'm just saying the people that already have a GBA and are happy with it and still buying software for it are not a good target market for the DS, because chances are they're going to stop buying GBA games.

You want to target people who either don't have a GBA, or have one and aren't really buying games for it.

[KDR_11k]

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Originally posted by: jasonditz
From everything I've heard its definately touch screen as opposed to touch pad. They were talking about things like using a screen as a customizable control system where the programmer can put however many buttons, etc, on the screen as they want.

From what I understood that's just a theory that originated on some forum. I don't recall anything close to an official source (not even a news site) saying that.

[jasonditz]

The "customizable control system" thing was discussed on slashdot IIRC, but CNN was reporting rumors of a touch screen and stylus months ago