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BREAKING NEWS: the Nintendo DS will be buttonless

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A quote from Famitsu's president Hirokazu Hamamura has sent the gaming world into a state of deep confusion.

"This will not be a machine where you push the 'A' button or 'B' button and move the direction pad, but a completely different way to interact with the device."

This interesting quote has sprung many ideas and a while ago it was suggested that the DS would have a touch screen. Expect proper details on Tuedsay at E3.

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What the hell is wrong with buttons, anyway? Were they not making enough money replacing GameBoy cases lined with sugar-encrusted gunk from grubby 7-year-ols hands?

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DJ_Haruko said:

Theremin gaming maybe?

If they'd include the wacky sound, it would be a great experience.

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I read a rumor in EGM that the second screen could be a touch screen, but it didn't say anything about being buttonless.

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I hope it's not going to be one of those stupid "voice controled" systems or games. I hate those, half the time you have to repeat yourself.

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Maybe you have to turn it to move it. I bet it would look damn funny to see a bunch of kids moving in spasms to play it. Heh.

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I hate touch screens, voice activation, and VR mumbo-jumbo. This better include some kind of never-before-seen technology, or its going to be the biggest flop since the Virtual Boy.

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Whether you hate it isn't going to affect its eventual popularity all that much.

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Touch-screen would be cool. Though I've heard rumors that it will have buttons (Megagames.com reported that X and Y buttons were being considered this time around).

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I predict this will be Nintendo's new Virtual Boy

Arioch said:

Lovely, grease coated, fingerprint plastered touch screen.


don't you ever wash your hands!?

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Cyb said:

don't you ever wash your hands!?


What's the demographic on prepubescents with excellent hygiene?

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DS must stand for Dumb Shit. Their sorry excuses for a digital control pads and lack of a good button layout were bad enough. Now they're going for the awesome control of a touch screens which of course are known to be almost as responsive and accurate as a some Mad Catz or Interact/Performance/STD shit soaked in molasses.

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Numbermind said:

What's the demographic on prepubescents with excellent hygiene?

Or pubescents, really. You get a lot greasier as you go through puberty.

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Great, first cars that look like mussels, then online final fantasy games, now this..where will the madness end

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Well, I'm not buying the DS then.

Unless you can put yourself in games and actually feel the burn.

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Cmon don't decide yet, it might be something cool, or not even true at all. I still don't see a link.

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What does the DS stand for?

And yes, what the HELL is wrong with control pads?

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Lengis said:

DS stands for Dual Screen

Or "Die Sony" as it might stand. (blatantly ripped from gamespy's Fargo)

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I suspect it'll be a tilt type machine. I remember they sort of experimented with that a while ago

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