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RUMOR - NVidia teams with Nintendo on next-gen DS to debut late 2010
BSN is claiming to have insider information on the next Nintendo portable, which would be a DS successor. Check out a snippet of what they have to say…
As the time passed by, Nintendo started to work on the successor of its handheld console with a debut planned for late 2010 [Tokyo Game Show?]. According to our confidential sources, Nintendo is going to use Tegra System-on-Chip processor for the successor of DS/DSi handheld console. Unlike the current design, nVidia offered a single-chip proposal to Nintendo, a company famous for keeping the hardware platform absolutely simple.
Given the fact that Nintendo DS hardware is based upon 16-bit and 32-bit ARM cores, it looks like Next-Gen DS could be backwards compatible with the DS application library. According to our sources, all of the apps that came for old DS could run on a single ARM11 core, yet alone the next-gen CorTex-A9-based Tegra, leaving graphics subsystem to do “something smarter”.
I’m not touching this one with a ten-foot pole. I’m just bringing you guys the rumor, as it’s quite the juicy one. It also fits in with what was recently said by a Japanese analyst…that Nintendo would show off a new version of the DS come June of next year. Huge thanks to RockRules for the heads up!