Reggie Fils-Aime promised megaton-type announcements at this year’s E3 in July, and Famitsu boss Hirokazu Hamamura thinks a redesigned Nintendo DS is going to be one of them.

According to the oft-quoted NeoGAF forums, Hamamura, boss of Famitsu publisher Enterbrain, said Nintendo might use the glitz and glamor of one of the year’s biggest gaming trade shows to announce a new DS model. Hamamura’s remarks appeared in the latest edition of Weekly Famitsu, and was quickly answered by Nintendo with an industry standard “no comment.”

The PSP is surging in Japan right now, thanks to Monster Hunter, and Nintendo has been known to nip and tuck its handhelds in the past, so anything’s possible, right? Let the pre-E3 speculation begin…