Nintendo To Shrink DS

MEDIA CENTER PC NEWS

January 27th 2006

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Recent news that the PSP has begun to outsell the DS consistently for the first time may well have prompted Nintendo to announce a lighter, slimmer version of their handheld.

The Nintendo DS Lite may well be released as early as March in Japan and will carry a $145 price tag, with the original DS enjoying a significant price cut as well.

The DS Lite is 133mm wide by 73.9mm high by 21.5mm deep and weighs just 218 gram, 21% lighter than the standard DS.

Of course, the trade off for an improvement to the DS's pretty ugly design, is a reduced screen size which doesn't really help its multimedia credentials any.

The PSP has made a lot out of its portable media center strengths and the DS, which according to many actually has a better range of game titles, is starting to look a little limited.

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