New slide sensor peripheral for the Nintendo DS

Posted Aug 9, 2007 at 9:17PM by QJ Staff Listed in: Nintendo DS Tags: GBA, Japan, motion sensor
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Nintendo Japan has just released a new peripheral for the Nintendo DS. The peripheral, attached to the GBA cartridge, will take up the entire bottom part of the DS and put it on a sort of platform.

Slide controller peripheral for the DS - Image 1 


The platform is a motion sensor, and acts as another way to input movement into the DS. You move the DS around on a flat surface and the whole handheld suddenly becomes a mouse with a screen. It's interesting to see how that would work though. It's one thing to sit down and move a stylus around to move your character, but to have to move the whole DS on a steady surface may defeat the whole purpose of gaming-on-the-go. Or, on the optimistic side of things, quite possibly redefine it.

The peripheral will be bundled up with a new game for the DS, Slide Adventure: Mag Kid, which has you play a robot that rebuilds itself from parts of destroyed enemies. The whole thing will be priced at JP ¥ 5,800 (US$ 49) in Japan but there's no word yet if it will be released for the US.

 
 
 

Comments [refresh]

by Tyr0 - 2007-08-09 16:09
» Beat Ya!

This looks pretty cool. But I still use my psp more than the ds.



PS first post!

by D3 - 2007-08-10 01:41
» HA

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