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After 14 million sold units of the Nintendo DS, Nintendo announced on January 26th that there will be a revised model of the Nintendo DS called DS lite.  Data (in brackets data of the original DS): Length: 133mm (148.7mm) Height: 73.9.. (84.7mm) Thickness: 21.5mm (28.9mm) Weight: 218g (275g) New feature: Backlight can be adjusted in 4 stages. New price 16800 Yen = 145$ (15000Yen = 130$) Release date will be March 2nd. Sources Mainichi Newspaper, Nintendo Homepage
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Already! I hope it makes it smaller, dem tings huge..
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I like em' big. That way I don't have to worry so much about breaking them.
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Nintendo stuff doesn't break that easily. :)
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If the screen stays the same size, it seems like an awesome deal. :D
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The screen wasn't mentioned in the press notification, so I guess it stays the same size. 8)
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I think if I got this, my hands would cramp up more than they already do playing Mario Kart. I need one of those pelican adapters so I can hold my DS like a regular controller.
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That is exactly the kind of redesign I didn't want... looks like the problems aren't remedied, in fact, they look amplified (buttons too close to the outer edge of the thing). "Mr. DNA" wrote:I think if I got this, my hands would cramp up more than they already do playing Mario Kart.
I need one of those pelican adapters so I can hold my DS like a regular controller. I was wondering if one of those existed for the DS. but I haven't been able to find any.
 
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That's a problem you can't solve I think. The smaller the hardware gets the nearer the buttons will be to the edge when the screen should stay the same size.
I think there is no need for anybody who already has one to buy the DS lite anyway. The original DS is good enough and they will still sell it parallel to the lite version.
So no need to worry. :)
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Is this new DS lite gonna come in different colors or the same colors as the regular DS? :?
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The Nintendo homepage doesn't speak about the colors.
The pic shows it in white.
Was the white version sold in the US? I got mine in Japan.
I'm sure there will be other colors.
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The only thing that bothered me about the original DS was the thickness. I guess this new one solves that problem at the expense of the buttons being closer like mentioned before.
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ehh. personally, the only thing they could of done to improve the DS was make the buttons bigger.
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I'm quite fond of the buttons as they are now...
It could be a little lighter in weight, and they'll improve it there, but I won't buy a DS lite in the near future. Like the GB micro, I'll wait for a cheap used one. :)
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March 2nd? Wow so soon for Japan. I will pick it up for sure.
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Just a comparison. 
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That's a nice comparison.
And as you can see, the buttons are not nearer to the edge as they were before.
If I didn't have one yet, I'd definitely buy the lite version, although it's a bit more expensive.
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I hope the Lite version has PictoChat Version 2 in it.
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DS Lite will come in 3 different colors. http://ds.ign.com/articles/687/687783p1.html
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That's a shame though that the GBA games stick out. Besides that it would be almost flawless.
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