
NIntendo president Satoru Iwata offered the first concrete information about the next DS system -- as in, not the next revision of the current DS, but the real next system -- in an interview with the Asahi Shinbun newspaper. "[It will have] highly detailed graphics," Iwata said, "and it will be necessary to have a sensor with the ability to read the movements of people playing." Sort of like the iPhone, yes, but Nintendo isn't exactly an also-ran in the field of motion-controlled gaming. Iwata declined to specify a release window for this new DS.
The president said there would be no "monthly service plan" for games, indicating that Nintendo was looking to increase the number of businesses that host DS Wi-Fi hotspots instead of supporting a 3G-like service (à la Kindle or iPhone) to the DS. The "Mac de DS" service NIntendo provides in parternship with McDonald's offers free wireless connections for the handheld along with exclusive downloadable content.
In Wii news, Iwata dropped one bomb that will delight fans and one that will probably cause massive eyerolls. First, the good news: the new Zelda game sort of revealed at the last E3 is being prepared for release by the end of 2010. And the other news: the Wii Vitality Sensor, the bizarre biofeedback attachment also unveiled at E3, will be released somewhere in the neighborhood of July, following a press conference about the device.
[Via Kotaku]
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