Rumors
$199.99 for the DS? How is that Kid Friendly?
Ouch! Looks like Ebgames is starting to take pre-orders for the Nintendo DS system. But at a price of $199.99 USD how is that kid-friendly? I think that price is way too high for the average gamer. Think about it. The Xbox and PS2 should be around 199.99 not a handheld. What do you [...]
Nintendo DS: In stores by Christmas?
Nestled in a Reuters story about Nintendo’s financials (yawn) we found this little gem:
“In order to have the DS out by Christmas, we plan to start production late summer or early fall and boost production every month,” Nintendo Senior Managing Director Yoshihiro Mori told a news conference.
“The shipment forecast for the DS, due out later [...]
New Sega Handheld rumors not true.
Well sorry to say that’s just the way the ball bounces. As you know Sega was recently taken over by Pachinko dealers Sammy. This lead to many people thinking that
1) Sega would use the less-then-stellar atomiswave hardware to launch a new handheld console
2) Sammy and SNK NEO GEO would team up to release [...]
Gameboy Evolution Specs?
The boys over at N-Sider.com did an excellent job rounding up some specs on the next GameBoy system, the GameBoy Evolution. No, this is not the DS. Nintendo has stated a million times that the DS is not going to take the place of or be in competition with the GameBoy line (but the backwards [...]
New Sega Handheld in 2005?
Well thanks for having me and I didn’t mean for my first post to be such a fluffy rumor but here goes. According to sources deep within E3 this year Yuji Naka, of Sega Japan, unveiled a new game machine to shocked games industry representatives at a Sega E3 press briefing. Their new creation [...]
