Picture And Music On DS Machine Nintendo
Nintendo will launch a DS machine that can take pictures and play music, hoping to cement its lead over Sony's PlayStation and encroach into the territory of Apple Inc's iPod and iPhone.
The new model will be launched in Japan on November 1. It is slimmer and has bigger displays than the current model, and will sell for 18,900 yen ($179), up from 16,800 yen for the current model but below the PSP's 19,800 yen.
The Kyoto-based company, locked in a three-way battle with Sony and Microsoft Corp in the global video game industry, plans to launch the new machine, the DSi, outside Japan in 2009.
Nintendo's strategy to broaden the gaming population by offering innovative but easy-to-play games has been a roaring success in recent years as the DS and Wii console have attracted women and the elderly on top of traditional gamers.
White-hot demand for the DS and Wii console, which features a motion-sensing controller that lets players direct on-screen plays by swinging it like a racket, helped the company raise its annual operating profit forecast in August by 23 percent to 650 billion yen ($6.2 billion). Source and read more here
The new model will be launched in Japan on November 1. It is slimmer and has bigger displays than the current model, and will sell for 18,900 yen ($179), up from 16,800 yen for the current model but below the PSP's 19,800 yen.
The Kyoto-based company, locked in a three-way battle with Sony and Microsoft Corp in the global video game industry, plans to launch the new machine, the DSi, outside Japan in 2009.
Nintendo's strategy to broaden the gaming population by offering innovative but easy-to-play games has been a roaring success in recent years as the DS and Wii console have attracted women and the elderly on top of traditional gamers.
White-hot demand for the DS and Wii console, which features a motion-sensing controller that lets players direct on-screen plays by swinging it like a racket, helped the company raise its annual operating profit forecast in August by 23 percent to 650 billion yen ($6.2 billion). Source and read more here
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