Nintendo DS gains hefty 3rd party support

[Alex W.]

Is any of this based on fact? Kay, the two screens, but otherwise?

Nintendo filed a patent in 2003 for motion-sensor technology in a handheld games console with interchangable cartridges, and Telegames are releasing their Card Games and Brain Games compilations on the machine with support for touch-screens. Wireless networking... I can't remember where that came from, some press release or something.

So they're reasonably plausable, but not certain yet.

[Alex W.]

has no one thought of the fact that one of the machines DS or PSP(or maybe even both), might not use TFT?

Ever heard of OLED?

Basicly, the sharpest display available, and it uses almost no power.

Go OLED!

Monochrome OLEDs are the only ones on the market now, and even then they're not cheap.

[vamecum]

Monochrome OLEDs are the only ones on the market now, and even then they're not cheap.

nah. I've seen OLED been put to use in some kodak-products. full colour-screen in their digi-cams. But I think kodak may have some patent on that, as it's only in kodak products I've seen it.

they consume less power, and as soon as production levels get higher it should be cheaper than TFT-solution.

[Alex W.]

nah. I've seen OLED been put to use in some kodak-products. full colour-screen in their digi-cams.  But I think kodak may have some patent on that, as it's only in kodak products I've seen it.

they consume less power, and as soon as production levels get higher it should be cheaper than TFT-solution.

I thought it was just monochrome OLEDs in Kodak products... although I've seen prototype OLED displays on show in the press, they were meant to be a year or so away.

Well, that shows me. It would be nice to have OLED displays on games machines, they are indeed very efficient, and comparatively cost effective. If the PSP doesn't come with an OLED screen, I could see it getting on on later hardware revisions...

EDIT- I've thought of something; Kodak could be using a matrix of monochrome OLEDs with a film of coloured pixels over the top. This would get them a coloured screen without having to mess around with coloured OLEDs.

[vamecum]

kodak OLED

Here it is, kodak's OLED tech. I'm not sure if it's colour-OLED for real, or if it's the hack you were talking about.

[Alex W.]

It doesn't really reveal it, but it looks like Kodak are manufacturing the display and interfaces for third-parties... which would mean you can't rule out a handheld.

Neat-o.

[PopeSmokesDope]

Well, Well , Well, what do you know, 10hr battery life.

[Alex W.]

A TFT LCD too.

Not too bad. Apparently more drive-heavy games will lower battery life though. Still pretty reasonable, I wouldn't mind leaving it charging overnight most nights... assuming there's a way for me to replace the battery without sending the unit to Sony, in which case they'd be cocks.

[PopeSmokesDope]

Like you do with Mobile phones.. i always charge mine over night.