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For the (with us not yet available) Nintendo DS appeared an adapt round to play music and video off. With the help piece, the handheldconsole must be better armed against its rival by Sony, the PSP. The double role as a console and portable media player is after all the large trump of the portable PlayStation.

The adapt justest in the sleuf for memory card and let the Nintendo DS MPEG4-video and MP3's play. Temporary only in Japans is the expansion available, under the name Play-yan. It is not also compatibel with the GBA Socialist Party, but with the old GameBoy Advance.

On the Play-yan, a reader sit for a SD-card and is there support for SD-Video. Because of this the DS video can taken up play on digital videorecorders of among many Panasonic. Notably that is adapt has the an own audio-exit, so that MP3's played become directly - and thus not through the DS -.

With the introduction of the adapt will Nintendo clear its handheldconsole as a rival for the in Japan fit introducede Sony PSP raise. Accidental with Play-yan the same as the portable PlayStation is not the cost price of a Nintendo DS. Nintendo hopes possibly that gamers will fall for the extra positions of their apparatus, as the double screens (of which the bottom an apt screen is), the thread lynx possibilities and the better autonomy.

Temporary are no available of both apparatuses in Europe. Expected becomes that as source the Sony PSP as the Nintendo DS in the course of the spring their opwachting will make in Belgian stores.