This coming November, mobile gaming will take on a new shape all over again. That’s right, the Nintendo DS will be released here in the US for all to enjoy. It will be interesting to see if their newest product takes off as quickly as the original Gameboy did.

For the first time the gaming giant, which dominates the portable games market, is releasing such a device in the US before Japan.

The gadget will go on sale on 21 November in the US and 2 December in Japan. Europe will see the device on sale sometime at the start of 2005.Rival Sony is set to release its portable PSP at the end of the year.

It is widely expected to go on sale in Japan first, however.

Nintendo also announced the DS will have a price tag in the US of $149.99 (£84), and 15,000 yen in Japan (£76).