Nintendo Rubbishes Talk of DS Redesign
So no getting tired of the DS Lite.
Nintendo has brushed aside comments from a US analyst who said the company has a new version of the DS ready.
Citing unnamed contacts, Evan Wilson, an analyst for Pacific Crest Securities, said that Nintendo has already redesigned the DS. "It is thinner (it has no GBA port), has on-board storage, and larger screens," he wrote in an investor note, as reported by GameSpot.
But Nintendo has denied Wilson's comments, a spokesperson for the company today calling them "utter speculation".
Despite the rebuffing, Wilson could still turn out to be right. Hardware companies often deny comments about changes they're not yet ready to announce. But even by Wilson's own reckoning it could still be a while until a new DS arrives.
"We do not expect a revamped Wii or DS until sales begin to tail off in all three major geographies," he wrote.
And there's no sign of that. By the end of September, Nintendo had sold more than 53 million DSs, 13 million of those coming in the six months leading up to September.
Alex Wollenschlaeger
Editor, Kikizo
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