With the DSi coming pretty soon, it looks like the DS Lite’s days are numbered. Well, maybe not. Nintendo UK General Manager David Yarnton was asked about the presumably-bleak future for the little handheld, and this is what he had to say:
We’ll let the market decide. We expect some people will upgrade, but we also anticipate that we’ll win over people who were still undecided on DS – the extra features will help convince them. [...] With the DSi we see multiple consumer types for it. As with everything now, we look at our target market being five to 85, offering different things for different people. The functions of the device really open the platform up to more consumers – it gives the DS format unlimited potential.
So the DS Lite could end up sticking around for a while longer. What are the odds that it actually will, though?
