New DS to be Unveiled at E3 2008?

Japanese Gaming Magazine Famitzu’s publisher Hirokazu Hamamura has been doing some speculating recently. According to him, Nintendo will unveil their successor to the wildy popular DS Lite at E3 this year. The Google translated version of the page is hard to understand, but makes it seem like this is pure speculation from industry chatter. And it makes sense to me because Nintendo has a thing of releasing handheld iterations every year or every other year. The last upgrade was the Gameboy Micro (who wants a Gameboy anymore) two years ago, so it makes sense for Nintendo to release it this year.

My brother was planning to buy a DS Lite in the coming weeks but I’ll tell him to wait a bit longer till E3 comes around and we know whether Famitzu was right or wrong. I suggest you do the same to anyone you know who was planning to buy the DS in the near future. No one should suffer by buying something that may have a new version coming out in the next few months. Plenty of iPod owners would feel the same way.