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"MYSTERY PRODUCT" TO LAUNCH LATER THIS YEAR

Nintendo announces the end of year launch of a new portable game system
with two monitors, the Nintendo DS (temp). By adopting two TFT LCD's in
a vertical position as well as two CPU's, the Nintendo DS will provide
unprecedented and brand new interactive entertainment experiences.


Today's announcement is just a glimpse of the additional features and
benefits that will be shown in full at the Electronic Entertainment Expo
(E3) in Los Angeles in May. Once fully revealed, players will see the
innovative advance in game interaction.


From information made available today, players can look forward to being
able to manage their game progress from two different perspectives,
enhancing both the speed and strategy of the challenge. For example in
a football game, you can view the whole game on one screen, while
simultaneously focusing on an individual footballer's tackle or goal on
the other screen. Players will no longer be forced to interrupt game
play to shift perspective, such as moving from a wide shot to a close
up, or alternating between a character's ongoing battle and a map of
their environment. Nintendo DS makes it possible to perform the tasks in
real time by simply glancing from one screen to the other.


Satoru Iwata, Nintendo president, explains: "We have developed Nintendo
DS based upon a completely different concept from existing game devices
in order to provide players with a unique entertainment experience for
the 21st century"


Nintendo DS features two separate 3" (75mm) TFT LCD display panels,
separate processors, and semiconductor memory of up to 1 Gigabit. It is
scheduled to launch worldwide before the end of 2004. In addition to
Nintendo developed software, the company is in discussions with third
party game developers around the world.


Nintendo DS will be marketed separately from the existing Nintendo Game
Boy Advance portable system and Nintendo GameCube home console.

Вот так вот, братия!

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Вот, переводить лень, все равно тут половина постов на английском. Отныне Nintendo DS именуется Project Nitro!

On the day that Nintendo unofficially changed the project name of its Nintendo DS dual screen system to Project Nitro, a leaked document has been making the rounds. This document is assumed to be from the Japanese development docs, and reveals many of the features of the upcoming handheld. We have confirmed with North American development sources that the features listed in the document are entirely legitimate.

The document confirms that the system will have an ARM 7 and an ARM 9 processor, the ARM 7 running at 33 mhz (the GBA's ARM 7 runs at 16.8 mhz) and the ARM 9 running at 67 mhz. The unit will feature four megabytes of system RAM, as well as 32K of processor RAM for both ARM 7 and ARM 9, and 656K of VRAM. Development sources have informed us that along with aiding in Project Nitro-native games, the ARM 7 will also be used for Game Boy Advance compatibility.

Both screens will be higher resolution than the GBA, 256x192 pixels compared to the current 240x160 resolution of the Game Boy Advance, and at least one of the screens will be touch sensitive. The unit will focus on 3D, with the ability to push as many as 120,000 polygons a second. The system's 2D abilities are comparable to the GBA, four scrolling backgrounds with 128 on-screen objects.

For control inputs, the system will feature the same button configuration as the Game Boy Advance system: D-pad, A and B buttons, L and R shoulder buttons. Nintendo is still considering additional X and Y buttons, which is why the documents list these buttons as To Be Determined.

The Project Nitro will also feature 802.11-style wireless connectivity according to the document, with some development sources stating that the system can link up to 16 systems using this wireless technology

Источник: advance-power.de