According to Japanese gaming mag Game Laboratory, senior executives of the Nintendo met in secret to discuss extending the console's present 512MB storage with an external hard drive.

At present, the Xbox 360 has a 20GB hard drive and the PS3 (outside of the US and Japan) has a 60GB drive. As the number of games available on Nintendo's virtual console service increase on an almost daily basis, there is definitely a need to store all those games somewhere and as we all know 512MB can fill up very quickly.

According to gaming industry mag GamesIndustry.biz, Nintendo were quick off the mark to deny any rumours of a hard drive for the console but stopped short at saying the plans were untrue. But the company managed to confirm in the meantime that a new headset for its DS handheld console was on the cards and will go on sale next month with a new Pokemon game. The headset will allow players to talk online to others while training their animals to do whatever they do in Pokemon.

Luckily Nintendo take the safety and security of players very seriously and players will only be able to talk to each other if they have already exchanged friend codes and disabled for all other online players.