A while back, probably in the Fall, I ‘remember’ a talk I had with Jordan about the upcoming slimline Nintendo DS. Shortly before Christmas I once again spoke to him about it, but he had aboslutley no idea what I was talking about. Seems that I dreamt the whole thing. I went away from the conversation wondering if Tinkerbell was right — did I have reality vs imagination problems to deal with?

Thankfully that bitch was wrong. There’s a new slimline DS coming. One of my beefs with the original DS was that it was a honking mass of ‘portable’ gaming. This slimline version is 42% smaller…. and although rumors say that the screens will stay the same size, here’s hoping that the smaller form factor doesn’t affect gameplay too much. After all, the DS has some pretty unique controls.

The DS-Lite is reported to launch in March in Japan, at 112 Euros. Considering the already impressive lineup of DS games, this console seems like a no-brainer to me. Read more about it at Eurogamer.