New DS to Hit Europe in March

Nintendo’s latest addition to the DS line has finally been given a release date in Europe and, surprisingly enough, it looks as though it’ll be before the US release date.

As a rule, games consoles tend to hit Europe last, though after the fairly furious backlash from Sony’s PlayStation Portable launch delay over here, it seems that the effort is being made to ensure that Europe gets hardware in a timelier fashion than once we did. Now, it seems that Nintendo will reverse the trend, offering it’s the new, bigger version of its DS hardware in Europe from March onward, though there’s no real detail on the US release date (which has been tentatively penned in as “Q1.”

Nintendo to Launch New DS

Less than a year after the launch of the DSi, the successor to Nintendo’s DS Lite handheld, Nintendo has announced that it is to launch another new model of its tremendously successful portable.

The new DSi boasts a far larger screen setup than the current device, and is rumoured to include Nvidia’s Tegra chipset, for which it had been reported Nintendo recently signed a deal with Nvidia. Gamespot is reporting that the biggest change to the new DSi that’s been confirmed so far though is the screen size, which has now been stretched out to something a bit bigger than the current 3.25-inches. It’s unlikely to replace the current DSi for a few different reasons.

HP Touts Touch-Screen Win7 Display

For many, Windows 7 seems to be a working replacement for Windows Vista, but it does add an awful lot, including a feature called “Touch Pack” that allows reliable integration of touch-screen displays with the OS.

For those already using touch-sensitive displays (and HP has been marketing them on machines like its TouchSmart for a few years now) the addition of the Touch Pack to Windows 7 will be welcome news indeed. One of the biggest problems with touch-sensitive displays is that different manufacturers had different ideas about how their functionality should be employed in Windows itself.