What could follow the DS?

So something like the Gyro pack built right in?

I hope for a regular console honestly..

I really hate the touch screen.

I can see Nintendo pulling of this:
A camera that recognizes facial expressions. Probably not directly after the DS, but yea.
Also I can see Nintendo doing paper-flat screens that you can wrap to save space. Also not directly after the DS, but the technology for that exists (expensive though).
Probably Nintendo might also add an analogue stick alternative that will work for portable gaming and is better than the PSP's.

I don't think they'll drop the touch-screen though.

Ooh, the camera idea grabs a hold of my attention.

This is sort of a dream of mine, but I would like it if every game that was released came with a special code and homing chip, and whenever you play a game for the first time, its code is saved in some sort of log. Then if you lost the game (wait =|) you could use wi-fi to track it. But yeah, its not going to happen.

The screen is a sphere and you have to spin it to do stuff.

Great idea in theory, impossible in execution.

NDS will be the last handheld.
Shigeru Miyamoto will die before the DS and the lack of his productivity will cause the ultimate fall of Nintendo.

The day Miyamoto dies will be a sad one...

The original GameBoy lasted from 1989 to 1998 when the GBC was introduced.

Nothing stopping the DS from doing the same... except the PSP I guess.

Why don't they actually try making new Virtual Boy?

It most likely will success, since technology has advanced a lot since the Virtual Boy.

This post has been edited by Ultramario on Mar 29 2008, 01:11 PM

Perhaps a device with just one wide touchscreen, which will also take care for an unlimited amount of control schemes and skins.


...kind of like the iPhone. :/

I'm personally looking forward to http://openpandora.org more than anything

I would love to see how they would make a portable Gamecube...

Now I want this.

I was actually about to post in this topic with the suggestion "A lighter DS"

Maybe it's time I actually bought a DS Lite...

PSP with a touchscreen

I'd love a handheld system that isn't so tiring to hold with one hand while you use the stylus with the other. I don't know about the DS Lite, but I think it'd be better if the next Nintendo handheld could be held in a more balanced way, like, on the flat hand.

I would be interested in a system with more powerful specs. and double the screen resolution.

Two touch screens would be stupid and pointless.

I think just the one will do.

Multi-touch would be the next step.

Maybe in a few years the technology will be available to get a hi-speed satellite link up without wasting too much battery power or something, and using that as an alternative to wifi, so you could get online anywhere no matter what

Maybe it'd be more pressure sensitive too, perhaps sensitive enough to recognize fingerprints

Maybe a camera idea...


Maybe they would just drop the ridiculous peripheral gimmicks and make better games. I can see them sticking with the touch screen thing. A gyroscopic thing would be stupid for a handheld, outside the realm of just tilting and rotating it (if you were shaking the thing like wii remote baseball bat it'd be dumb because you wouldn't see the screen)


one cool idea is maybe it would interact with the wii (or new console) or something and be able to wirelessly transmit the screen to the TV screen. And maybe download Virtual Console games onto the handheld (it could come with a mini harddrive/flash memory inside .. seriously 2gb microsd flash cards run for 20-30 $ at least on ebay, and for cheaper, so its economoically possible)

This post has been edited by ZeldaFreak108 on Mar 29 2008, 10:53 PM

But you forget this is NINTENDO.

It's never that easy.

wide multi touch screen like the psp (with touch obv.) and the same tilt sensing thing the ps3 controller has in it and buttons on the outside of the screen, maybe with an analog button (like psp) that doesn't kill your hands

also, usb support and maybe a camera or something cool