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Nintendo DS

July 1, 2005 02:02 PM EST | Nintendo | Email to Friend

Nintendo's latest innovation provides users with a unique game-play experience using features never before offered by any other home console or hand-held game system. This portable personal entertainment and communications unit provides owners with new perspectives on dual screens, new control using both touch and voice, and new connections with two kinds of wireless game play. It's a newfound canvas on which developers can express their creativity.

Game players need only use their imagination to see how the DS promises to transform the portable game industry by changing the way gamers relate to their games – and each other.

Two screens offer two perspectives on the action at once. The touch screen could make accessing items, moving characters or navigating menus as easy as a tap or drag on the screen. Voice recognition could let players simply tell the game what they want it to do. Chat software will let users transmit text messages, handwriting and even drawings to one another.

And wireless functions could link players in the same room – or across the country. The unique features of the Nintendo DS hold a wellspring of potential for the future. Game players will be wowed.

Pros:
Great design marries innovative new features with great features of old systems and lots of customizable options
Wireless up to 100 feet
Built-in PictoChat lets you write and draw pictures with up to 15 other DS users.

Cons:
Sometimes hard to see and use the touch screen at the same time
Wireless multiplayer feature won't work with GBA games
Can't connect to other wireless devices...yet.

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