Earlier today, Pacific Crest Securities analyst Evan Wilson made a bold claim that Nintendo was working on a successor to the DS Lite. A Nintendo spokesperson has responded to said claim, calling it nothing more than “rumor and speculation.” Doesn’t mean we won’t see a new model eventually, as this is not an outright denial.

In his original report, Wilson was quoted as saying that the new model was “thinner, has on-board storage, and larger screens.”

New DS Lite model “rumour and speculation” [GI.biz]

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