E3: More Nintendo DS Media!
Laptop Battery Somewhere between 11 am and 12 today, Nintendo revealed its mysterious new handheld, the third pillar, the Nintendo Dual Screen.
The company showed off, with it, a new Metroid title, Metroid Hunters, and a new Mario title, Mario 64x4. The first, Hunters, lets gamers play against each other in first-person multiplayer game from the Metroid universe, while the latter is a multiplayer version of Mario 64.
According to Nintendo, the Nintendo DS will allow for up to 16 gamers to play via wireless LAN within 100 ft of each other. Also impressive, Nintendo spoke of a wi-fi network that would allow internet play. Details are scarce on this, but we'll know more soon we imagine.
GameCube Advanced will have more on the DS, including hands-on time, throughout the upcoming days. Until then, feast your eyes on the first screens of the DS in our media section to the right.
In addition, Minagawa said, "Like our Nintendo DS portable game machine, our home game machine must offer an experience that can be enjoyed by adults, children, or women. We would like to show this at E3 next spring." And they will. According to Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun, who quotes senior Nintendo executives, Nintendo's next home console will be shown at E3. However, the E3 in everyone's minds is not the E3 Nintendo plans to show the N5 off at. Nintendo plans to have the N5 ready for E3 2005, not E3 2004 which is just three months away.
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