Juicy Handheld Rumours: NeoGAF

For those of you who are into hand-held gaming, someone at NeoGAF has some scans from a magazine and translated parts of it to give us some spicy new rumours to speculate on.

1. New version of DS next spring, with a mobile digital TV/radio tuner.
2. Square Enix make a RPG for DS with Shonen JUMP characters.
3. [Dragon Quest 9] also available for PSP.

New DS? That's understandable. It's the best selling gaming device of all time. I remember how many people laughed at Nintendo for even the thinking of creating something like the DS, especially since it would cut into the sales of their, at the time, best selling Game Boy Advance even if the hand-held was a winner -- which of course, it turned out to be. It's clear that Nintendo isn't by any means, stupid. If they think this will help sales of their already hot DS then I have no objections to them going to town with whatever crazy additions they want to include in the next SKU.

I'm not so sure about these new features, I'm fairly confident Nintendo will release a new DS SKU soon.

Shonen Jump RPG? Well they did make Mario Basketball so we know they can develop something other than Final Fantasy oriented content. Licensing could pose a problem, but it's no lie that Shonen Jump is popular in America, especially amongst kids. I wonder if it would be an RPG similar to Super Mario RPG.

The probability for this game to be made is high. Square-Enix is big into the anime industry so I don't see why they wouldn't make this game. Whether or not it will come state-side is a bit to early to call, but it's not impossible.

Dragon Quest IX on the PSP? If you've already forgotten, this game is supposed to be a DS exclusive. Square-Enix loves all gaming platforms, so I wouldn't blame them if they did bring Dragon Quest IX on over to the PSP, especially since all the recent prequels to IX have been on a Sony system. When Square does make a game exclusive, it usually stays exclusive -- at least for a few years. So even if Dragon Quest IX does remain exclusive to Nintendo for now, I wouldn't be surprised if it's ported over to PSP a year or two later.

Remember folks, these are all rumours. They could be all be true, they could all be false. We'll just have to wait and see.



[Source: NeoGAF]