Hmmm... I don't claim to know much about hardware design, but I doubt that its quite as simple as just spending a little more money to like, check texture off a list of graphical features or something.
I think the idea here is that Nintendo really thought it wouldn't make much much of a difference. Of course, the hardcore gaming public defers, but when I can play Mario 64 in better than the original fidelity, I'm happy.
As far as I'm concerned, DS is a perfectly capable of 3D games. Obviously its not the most ideal system for it, but its more than pasable. You are absolutely right though. if PSP never came along, we would be praising Nintendo to high hell for such amazing advancement in handheld graphics. Thats competition for ya.
DS a system based around a specific input device. Graphics are not its forte. The same will become of the revolution. All you people trying to convince yourselves otherwise are setting yourself up for disappointment. I mean come on. Nintendo says so themselves.
The way I see it, when Nintendo finally does release images of say... Smash Brothers Rev, we will be floored. Not because it looks much better than other next gen stuff out there, but who doesn't love seeing Nintendo's franchise characters go through that upgrade each generation?
The devs can create some seriously large and detailed worlds, especially as we're talking about SDTV here. Not only that the extra ram will also help with load times and caching.
