Rumors about a new Nintendo DS have been going around for quite some time and Nintendo’s history of continually reissuing its hardware has fueled even more speculations. Now, a report on the financial news service Bloomberg Japan indicates that a new Nintendo DS could be unveiled at E3 2008.
Hirokazu Hamamura, who is the president of Japanese magazine publisher Enterbrain, said that he believes a new model of the DS will be shown by Nintendo at this year’s E3 Media & Business Summit. Enterbrain is the parent company of Famitsu. However, it is still uncertain whether Hamamura made a prediction or whether he has any kind of information on which he made the statements. As the norm is, Nintendo Japan said that they did not have anything to announce, while Nintendo of America representatives were not available for comment.
There are also speculations as to whether it will be an update of the DS Lite or whether they are coming out with Nintendo DS 2. Nintendo does keep on coming out with new iterations of the DS, but they are usually the handhelds that have different color combination. A few weeks ago, they had introduced a Cobalt Black Nintendo DS.