Cell-ing the DS2 by Christmas

The Nintendo DS has officially fallen behind sales of the PSP in Japan. As Nintendo is the dominant gaming company in the market, I don’t think they are going to take that sitting down. With analyst Michael Pachter portending a new DS by the end of the year and fans clamoring over what the new Nintendo portable will do and look like, I think I’ll jump in with my own wish list.

Of course, I could dream big, and have a wish-list that included a Shetland pony with every purchase, but I’m gonna keep it as real as possible. As Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” And the giants of gaming and portable technology are Apple and Nintendo. So, fusing their most successful ideas together (Wii, DS, and iPhone) I’ve come up with the next Nintendo portable: the DS Mobile.

Besides the fact it would be a cell phone that actually had some good games on it, the DS Mobile opens up a whole new set of possibilities for games. Imagine actually being able to download Virtual Console games straight to your DS Mobile from anywhere. So if you suddenly get the urge to play some old school Kid Icarus, you don’t have to wait to get home to play it.

Mix in OS-level voice recognition technology that will work to dial friends in your address book, and actually have a Brain Age reading activity that really registers every word you say. You could train your dog in Dogz to actually sit on command. A multi-touch screen could let you pick the pooch up… and toss him across the yard if you’re sick like me.

But how bad-ass would it be having GPS system to get you from point “A” to “B”, and then boot-up Pokémon and find real Pokémon out in the wild?! It’s kinda like Pokémon geocaching. Then load ‘em to the mobile network, and trade a physically region-specific Pokémon to someone across the world. Hell, you could sell it for cash. You know somebody will buy it.

Finally, toss in an accelerometer for some motion control and you’ve got a mini-WiiPhone. Granted, waggle control is becoming more commonplace in gaming, but think of the applications for phones. You know that annoying girl you work with that keeps calling you, “just to talk?” Well, now when you throw the phone down on the coffee table, it also sends her straight to voicemail. Not only do you not have to talk to her, but you feel better after throwing your phone, too. Of course, you’re gonna get stupid pissed if you break it.

I doubt that this new DS iteration will be out by the end of the year, but it does give us fans something to chew on. So, as all us Nintendo gamers wonder what more they can come up with; I say they keep doing what they’ve been doing. Only, wait… now for something completely different, go into the phone business, and turn the mobile phone world on its head.