WORLD EXCLUSIVE: SECRETS IN SEATTLE - STUNNING NEW DS ANNOUNCEMENTS REVEALED!

Details of Nintendo top-brass presentations and unbelievable revelations inside!

13:04 As you must be aware by now Nintendo are holding a huge press conference in Seattle today and tomorrow to make a series of announcements about DS and reveal new details.

Well, check this out: we don' t have to wait for the announcements to be made. We know them already.

After introducing the DS and discussing its innovative control methods including the touch screen and in-built mic, Nintendo president Saturo Iwata will drop the first of several awesome bombshells.

The DS' s much-vaunted wireless features won' t only let you play multiplayer games - you' ll actually be able to download games and play them. Nintendo are calling this feature " Game Sharing" , and it means that multiple DS owners will be able to play multiplayer using only one copy of the game.

This instantly obliterates the problems of everyone needing to have a copy of the game to play multiplayer, and makes Nintendo' s boast that you' ll be able to play ' anyone, anywhere' absolute truth. Nintendo plan to promote production of titles with this " Game Sharing" feature, and several early titles including Super Mario 64 DS and Daigasso Band Brothers will support it.

Revolutionary? Yes, and it gets better. Nintendo plan to implement downloadable demos to let you play time-restricted versions of games before you buy them. Initially it seems that this will be restricted to retail outlets.

And more? Yup. Plans are afoot to implement connectivity between the DS and the movie screen during showings of Pokemon movies. Iwata will discuss how DS owners with a GBA Pokemon game cart in their DS will receive bonus materials beamed straight to them!

It seems that DS' s wireless capabilities are beyond anything we expected. As you can imagine, the potential for these kind of features is amazing.

After Iwata concludes his speech Shigeru Miyamoto will take to the stage and demonstrate a number of games including Nintendogs and Mario 64 DS.

He' ll be joined by Yuji Naka, president of Sega' s Sonic Team, who will demonstrate I Would Die for You (also known as Feel the Magic: XY-XX) and announce that a DS Sonic game is also in development.

This will be followed by a confirmation from Square-Enix that Final Fantasy III, previously only available on NES, will be coming to DS with overhauled visuals and new control features.

A new Pokemon game, called Pokemon Diamond, will be confirmed. Pokemon Dash, which is a Japanese DS launch game, will also be demonstrated, and the president of the Pokemon Company will show off how extra tracks can be unlocked by inserting GBA Pokemon game carts.

But the most exciting game announcement for Nintendo fans? We' ve heard that Miyamoto will confirm that a Legend of Zelda: Four Swords game is in production for DS.

Hopefully more details about this huge news will emerge at the presentation, and we' ll keep you up to date.

So how' s that? Awesome wireless revelations, stunning cross-platform connectivity, and the possibility of a new Zelda game to chow down on. Don' t say we' re not good to you.

More info as it happens.

Graeme Boyd