Well that's no surprise then. What did I tell you? You can't remember. Well, I told you it was too damn early for a new DS.
And I was right. Following on from our report last week
about the possibility of a new DS to be announced at E3. The news came
from Hamamura-san (head of Japanese publishing giant Enterbrain) and
has been squashed by both Nintendo of Japan's head of PR Ken Toyota and
Enterbrain.
Toyota said:
"We cannot comment on the specifics of what will be
announced at E3, but at the very least there won't be anything like
what Mr. Hamamura suggested, so would like to clearly deny this."We're having a hard time understanding what kind of evidence (Hamamura) had for saying this."
And Enterbrain said:
"It has been reported in the media that our president,
Hirokazu Hamamura, made comments at the video game industry seminar we
hosted on April 11 stating that 'The possibility exists that an
announcement will be made this summer regarding a new model of Nintendo
DS.'"However, no such statement or announcement was made by the president.
"We
reported at the seminar that we expect the video game market, which has
a recorded all-time high in its domestic market size, to continue to
further expand globally as well as domestically."During this
report, Mr. Hamamura commented that he has to 'continue to pay
attention to the direction in which the Nintendo DS is heading' and
that he has 'great expectations again this year for E3 (the Electronic
Entertainment Expo), where many new announcements regarding games are
made.'"He did not, however, make a comment about the possibility
of an announcement by Nintendo concerning a new model or successor to
the Nintendo DS due to its current scarce product availability caused
by its worldwide popularity."
And that, as they say, is the end of that chapter.
