Yes, I do think the new DS looks great. I'm already hoping for a small list of color choices.

We've already seen the prelims on the Revolution hardware look, and this new DS Lite falls right into line. Was anybody doing this white thing before Apple? Man, imagine if that old Dalmatian iMac color scheme had exploded like this.

Given that the Revolution and the DS are going to connect up in some way, and further supposing that Animal Crossing will make its way to the Revolution in some form, I hope there's some sort of interplay between Wild World and Secret Unnamed Animal Crossing Revolution Project. At the least, I'd like to be able to move my character from one game into the other. I think it'd be the ultimate lifelong virtual pet... essentially a save file that you'll be able to take with you from game to game across decades. It's not so farfetched; if they had done this with the first AC, some of us would already be playing with avatars over three years old. Figure a new AC game every three to five years, it could be Nintendo's idea of a MMORPG: with no monthly fee and a guarantee that players will buy an entirely new game to get their beloved alter ego inside all the new content.

I'd also like to see a Game Boy Player-esque feature on the Rev that would turn it into a DS. Since so many DS games allow multiplayer with only one game cartridge, your Revolution would let single-DS / multiple-gamer households get in on some of the fun. It would be nice if this hypothetical add-on did not require additional hardware (just stick a DS slot around the side somewhere!) and did not run off a separate game disk (build it in!), because neither of those attributes did much for the Game Boy Player. Sure would be an easy bullet point for the Revolution's launch, wouldn't it? "Also plays all your DS games!"

Going from a successful next-gen handheld system to a not-so-successful handheld system, the GTA people seem to be planning to release the PSP exclusive title GTA: Liberty City Stories on the PS2 by May. Well done, lads. Now nobody has any reason at all to buy a PSP. Unless they really want to watch the Family Guy movie with a d-pad. Now, what assurance do we have that this will live up to the hallowed GTA3 trilogy, and not just feel/look like a GBA game ported to GameCube? Sure, it's an eleventh hour band-aid for a company that's bleeding money... but if it's as good as any of the GTA3 games, damn right I'll get it.

Of course, it could just be a really early April Fool's gag. Friggin hell I hate those.