Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
In the four years since Nintendo launched the DS, precious little has changed apart from the somewhat slimmed down DS Lite hardware of course. Until now, that is. Prepare yourself for the beefed up DS complete with music playback and digital camera.
Nintendo could argue quite successfully, given sales exceeding 75
million worldwide, that is has no need to fiddle with the DS handheld
gaming machine.
Yet standing still is, quite simply, not an
option in the hugely competitive portable games console market where
gamers demand not only the best games but the best kit upon which to
play them.
The online arm of Japanese Nikkei newspaper, the subscription only
Nikkei Net, has let slip that new
hardware is to be announced and possibly launched later this week.
It says that the new Nintendo DS will feature a larger screen, which
also ties in with another new feature: a proper built-in digital camera
which will allow for in-game use of the photos taken.
Pushing the multi-media capabilities of the new DS even further, it is
reported that music playback functionality will also be included.
And all of this, at least when the new DS goes on sale in Japan and
assuming the rumours are correct, for little more than the current cost
of a DS Lite. Reports suggest a price of around 20,000 Yen compared to
16,800 Yen for the DS Lite.
The final leaked functionality upgrade concerns Internet connectivity,
and it is suggested that it will feature enhanced WiFi for connecting
to 'information terminals' and taking it outside of the gaming only
realm.
All will be revealed, no doubt, on Thursday at the Nintendo press conferences to be held in Japan and the USA.
iTWire will, of course, keep you posted with developments.
David Bass
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