With lessons learned from the standout success of its portable Nintendo DS--the company garnered 82% of portable software sales and sold 13 million DS units last year--the company has never had a clearer opportunity to differentiate itself to American audiences.
You might be thinking the second screen makes the Wii U a Wii-plus-DS, and it clearly shares second-screen DNA with Nintendo's dual-screen handheld.
Having all that extra real-estate (the DS-1500 gives you a full 2048x768 pixels of screen space to work with) definitely makes it easier to get get things done.
DoubleSightFor the past few days we've been playing with the DoubleSight DS-1500, a dual-screen monitor with two 15-inch LCD screens mounted side-by-side.
Things like that, (unintelligible) outfits and then, particularly, my four-and-a-half year-old is looking for a Nintendo DS Lite.
The Death Star, officially called the DS-1 Orbital Battle Station, is a piece of fiction (so far) which appeared in the Star Wars movies.
They've also got other slightly more innocuous devices like that snazzy 4GB DS-Xtreme which gives you homebrew action on the DS without any hacking.
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Please see below for full specification of the DS-421D headset.
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The Digital Silence DS-421D headset is also fitted with a Wolfson WM7130 MEMS microphone in each ear bud to pick up the ambient noise around the user prior to cancellation.
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Visitors are handed a customized Nintendo DS mobile-game unit and led to a screen in the floor made up of 70 large display panels showing a detailed, animated map of Kyoto.
Its new DS-A5 docking station brings Apple's WiFi media streaming to many home stereos, including those of rivals, as long as there's a wired or 802.11g-capable wireless router to feed the connection.
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Perfect for the busy professional in the different environments of everyday life, the stylish Digital Silence DS-421D headset is designed specifically for mobile users and is expected to be available to purchase by Spring 2012.
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Since none of the five PCs we own has two VGA-out video ports (and we couldn't be bothered to track down a DVI adapter), we ended up hooking the DS-1500 up to both of our Media Center PCs.
Users will be able to purchase 3-D movies to watch on the device's 3.5-inch screen -- larger than most previous DS systems and about the size of the iPhone's -- or stream video from Netflix.
And so when people talk about how we're doing vis-a-vis the Nintendo DS, again, it's not the whole story.
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Nintendo, in addition to delivering classic games electronically with its next-generation Revolution, will distribute DS content through its free Wi-Fi access initiative.
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The company says that makes the DS the best-selling videogame system in the country of all time.
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Nintendo's 3DS sold 250K, while the aged DS moved 275K -- not too shabby for an eight-plus-year-old console!
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The launch of Nintendogs is responsible for making Nintendo DS the best-selling system in Japan, outselling the PSP by three times.
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Their jobs are often described as the 3-Ds (dirty, difficult and dangerous).
The bottom screen is 3 inches and is a touchscreen, like that of the Nintendo DS. A 3-D depth slider on the right side of the top screen lets you control how much 3-D effect is shown, from completely off to fairly deep 3-D.
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The bigger picture is that Nintendo has sold more than 125 million units worldwide of the current-generation DS systems (including DSi and DSi XL models).
When Nintendo released its now-popular handheld DS portable gaming system in 2004, lots of early reviews predicted it would fail.
Iwata also demonstrated several of the DS's new software titles featuring the innovative features of the DS: voice recognition, touch-screen control and, of course, WiFi.
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But for outsiders probably the most important result is that, unless the SNS forms a government without the DS, Serbia's pro-European Union stance is unlikely to change.
Mr. GEOFFREY YORK (Reporter, Globe and Mail): When you look at the strategy that they're supposed to follow, I mean, they're supposed to be doing the so-called three Ds: development, diplomacy, and defense.
He also said that the company plans to try putting e-books on the DS again, a concept it experimented with earlier on.
Both the Nintendo DS and the Wii have finally become highly-appraised platforms.
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