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What Would The DS Look Like With a Four Inch Screen?

Kotaku:

"The current DSi screen is 3.25 inches. Rumor has it that Nintendo will be releasing a new DS with a 4 inch screen. What would that look like? Time to bust out the ruler and additional screen."

rCrysis5081d ago

that'd be so much awesome. playing on bigger screens =]

MonopolyRSV5081d ago

Pimping that Pokemon Emerald I see..

The bigger screens would be better but come onnnnnnnn, another handheld incarnation? I still have my original DS, and don't plan on getting a DSi anyway, not even for a bigger screen. Mainly because there aren't any great games on the system besides Pokemon anyway.

How about you guys make a DS player for the Wii instead so I can watch on my 60 inch?

Vortex3D5081d ago

With Wii isn't selling as fast as it used to be, Nintendo needs extra cash cow. With so many gamers already own DSi, an easy way is release a DSi with 4" screen because there isn't much extra engineering needed. The overall design is probably still the same as DSi. Nintendo knows plenty of DSi fans will buy it.

Nintendo has always prove that "keep it simple stupid" design always make more money than Sony that puts far more engineering into PSP or PSP Go.

Wii is mostly a repackaged GameCube with DVD drive and basic motion sensor controller and it sells like hotcakes.

Foxgod5081d ago

It would look like:

www.Openpandora.org

morkendo5081d ago

dsi would look more appealing with psp screen size.

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Old McGroin8d ago (Edited 8d ago )

Thought I had read somewhere that it might be close to Xbox Series X and PS5 in terms of visuals. That it had been shown running that Matrix Unreal 5 demo. If it's closer to Xbox One and PS4 then that's extremely disappointing already.

Destiny10807d ago (Edited 7d ago )

its going to be closer to a PS4, 1.84 teraflops, but has a few new tricks up its sleeve, 12 gigs of ram / dlss 3 / raytracing / SSD

Number1TailzFan7d ago (Edited 7d ago )

It's going to have a bit of a rough time with next gen third party games. The current gen machines are already having trouble with UE5 upscaling from 720p and still having fairly big FPS dips here and there.

I'd rather devs work with the hardware limitations to make sure games run at least a fairly solid 60fps, like by downgrading textures etc.. Instead of pushing the consoles beyond what they're capable of like they do now with a locked 30fps or 60 with big dips. DF also stated similar in their newest video.

I think first party games have a chance of looking nice and running well on the new Switch as long as they don't overdo it.

Old McGroin7d ago

OK, for the people downvoting, can you at least explain why you are quite happy for the Switch 2 to have similar visuals to a console released 4 years before the original Switch, which is itself a 6 year old console?

Neonridr7d ago

it's a handheld, imagine how much it would cost to have a portable PS5/XSX in your hands. You see the prices on things like the Ayaneo? Not to mention the abysmal battery life on something like the Steam Deck?

a portable PS4 would look amazing to be honest.

Profchaos7d ago

It's a handheld at its core there is no magic toggle or hidden GPU in the dock and it will have a 5 hour battery according to Nintendo's prioritys

Neonridr7d ago (Edited 7d ago )

I would expect it to maybe surpass the PS4 a little in terms of performance, but DLSS will give a nice visual bump to their titles.

Jin_Sakai7d ago

Having DLSS and Nvidia’s stellar Ray Tracing performance will be huge. I expect Switch 2 to run most 3rd games available on PS5 and Series X. Nintendo’s first party games are really going to shine. I can only imaging what they will pull off.

RaidenBlack7d ago

I am thinking somewhere between PS4 & PS4 Pro level base perf just from the SoC and then DLSS 3+ giving the boost its known for on top of it + the 12GB memory & SSD aiding in.

Jin_Sakai7d ago (Edited 7d ago )

As far as actual hardware it will be nowhere near PS5 and Series X. DLSS will play a huge role in getting resolution and frame rates in line with PS5 and Series X though. Nvidia is also much better with Ray Tracing so I expect Switch 2 to great in that regard.

Profchaos7d ago (Edited 7d ago )

It's going to be using NVIDIA tech to get the most out of the system so dlss 3 etc it should be fairly competent but I'm thinking the truth will be somewhere in the middle of last gen and current gen.

Still we all know what Nintendo can do on old hardware Luigi's mansion 3 had an art style that made it look like a ps4 level game on what was essentially 7.2 gen hardware seriously that game could stack up to some current gen efforts

ZeekQuattro6d ago

The animations in LM3 are top notch.

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Hofstaderman7d ago

I wouldn't mind having a handheld with PS4 fidelity.

Profchaos6d ago (Edited 6d ago )

I never understood why Sony didn't do this since a ps4 handheld seems like a perfect wim for them

fsfsxii7d ago

nintendo holding back the progress of the industry as per usual