Nintendo DS...couldn't it have been smaller?

[Typhoon]

Couldn't the Nintendo DS have been smaller and thinner? Or is there just a big battery? This is what I have been wondering. Anyone have a good idea if Nintendo will probably make a much more portable one in the near future?

[Wiggster]

It COULD have been smaller, no doubt. But that would have meant sacrificing battery power, screen size, usability, or (most likely) low costs.

It'll be a while before they make a new handheld; they're not like PDA makers who keep refining their devices, they'll stick to that form factor for the DS for quite a well. Remember, though, that they insist that the DS is not the Gameboy replacement; does that mean there'll be a new Gameboy soon? We'll have to wait and see...

[Typhoon]

It COULD have been smaller, no doubt. But that would have meant sacrificing battery power, screen size, usability, or (most likely) low costs.

It'll be a while before they make a new handheld; they're not like PDA makers who keep refining their devices, they'll stick to that form factor for the DS for quite a well. Remember, though, that they insist that the DS is not the Gameboy replacement; does that mean there'll be a new Gameboy soon? We'll have to wait and see...

Is that what they insisted? Huh. I didn't know that. But can you imagine a possibility of Nintendo coming out w/something else? That sounds way too odd to me. Maybe they meant that they would replace it w/a better version? Or maybe not... Oh well, I guess we will have to see. I think the DS should of been like the GBA SP but w/a widescreen touch screen so you could have more room for larger battery. What is the DS's color depth? I thought I read before that it can produce 266,000 colors.