Thread: Unconfirmed: DS successor development kits reportedly distributed to several developm

Unconfirmed: DS successor development kits reportedly distributed to several development ...

The newest rumors on the Nintendo front claim that industry officials are reporting that DS2 development kits have been distributed to several studios. Details such as the console's formal name and specs are as of yet unknown.

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gah!
I hope not
I was hoping for a few more years of DS

it would make sense to couple a DS successor with Gen V though

There is only one thing I will say smells in this. Inside people. I do not doubt it is possible to have inside connections, but I doubt they would let too many in on such a big secret.

It'll be interesting to see if Gen V's lifecycle will be cut short if they want to put Gen 6 on the DS2.

Although I suppose they'll give it the usual 4-year lifespan.

If the DS2 is technologically improved enough, maybe we'll get the Orre/Stadium type game on a handheld for once. That would be pretty cool, to have the main game and the console-type game on the same line of systems.

Originally Posted by Scott85

It'll be interesting to see if Gen V's lifecycle will be cut short if they want to put Gen 6 on the DS2.

Although I suppose they'll give it the usual 4-year lifespan.

Half Gen V could be on DS and other half for the sucessor, could still work that way as I hgly doubt the connectivity between DS and this new console is going to be that much different.

Anyway, I am not going to believe this until its confirmed. I mean what about the DSi LX coming out soon?

Right now, unless its confirmed to be true, I am staying skeptical for now. I am not doibting such a sucessor will come, just that late 2010 or early 2011 seems a little early thats all.

Gen V might be short like Gen II. Though, gen II was supposted to be on GB but was moved to GBC.

And it is possible about the DS2 being early. After all, there is supposted to be a new system according to the usual console cycle.

I just hope that Gen V is on the original DS, I like my DS Phat and don't want to buy a new system to play the new Pokemon game. But wasn't Gen V confirmed for the DS anyway?

Especially when I doubt I'll be able to afford a unit that will likely cost $180. I believe that this is true... but we won't be seeing the actual unit until at least November, probably later.

Plus side about the new unit: Its games will support WPA2 security. If it doesn't, then I'm probably not buying it... unless a lot of good games come out for it. But, really, we don't need a new handheld since they've redesigned the DS three times already.

I wonder if this news story is because of me.

mmmmmm, a DS with better hardware... I just hope its not too expensive

Another rumor about the DS2 with not details whatsoever... fun.

^But this one has had a wider spreding, not to mention that it involves companies developing for it instead of your usual: "DS2 is coming and nothing more". The Pokémon Company the first one to get a developer kit? As far as I know, the don't develop games, they just publish them. Still, this makes me think Gen V is coming for the successor and not the current DS/i in a similar way to how Star Fox Adventures/Dinosaur Planet was transferred from the N64 to the Game Cube and TLoZ:Twilight Princess from GCN to Wii. I hope I'm wrong, I don't wanna buy a new handheld in the nest few years.

On the other hand, we've never had a Pokémon main series game for launch, not to mention that usually it passes one or two years between a console/handheld announcement and its final launch, so there's still the possibility that Gen V's Versions will come out for the DS and then in 2011 the new handheld will come out with a Pokemon spin-off as a launch tittle (after all, the rumour clearly says "The Pokémon Company", not "Game Freak")

Thing is, if they want to have good games for the new console, they would already have to know what the new console was capable of and then build a game for it. But from what we know they have made a game but only just now got a kit for the new console.

Yes, Gen V has been in the works for years, I'm fairly sure.

I'm betting we'll get Dash 2 or something for the new system. Maybe Snap 2. But not a new gen entirely.

It's been made pretty clear that at least the usual first 2 versions of Gen V is being released on the DS. If anything, what they could possibly do is make the third version for the DS successor. That way, they could add ALOT more stuff onto the third version since it'd be on a more technologically advanced handheld. From what I understand, they kinda did the same thing with the Gen 2 games, Gold and Silver for the Gameboy and Crystal for the Gameboy Color. If they've done something like that before, I don't see why they can't do it again with Gen V.