Nintendo DSi

[mnoed]

As some of you have heard, the Nintendo company has done it again! Featuring the newly modified DSi! (This is a new version of the DS)

RELEASE DATE FOR USA: April 5th, 2009

Some of the DSi's new features include,
-A power button on the inside.
-Volume buttons on the side, instead of a slider.
-2 cameras: one on the outside (for your friends), and another on the inside (for self portraits).
-An SD card slot.
-Built in online capabilities. (With no extra charge )
-12% thinner sides.
-Slighty larger screens.
-Music capability.

One thing I particularly like about the DS is if you accidentaly press the power button, then you can just select to return to your game on the main menu. Plus, if you accidentally take out your game while your on the main menu, you can just put it back in, no freezes :0! I have yet to see the point of having the volume control as buttons instead of a slider, though. Making it thinner, with larger screens is what they should've done in the first place :P. (No offense Nintendo)

I have noticed that the most popular (or what Nintendo likes the most) addition to the DS is the camera. You can edit your photos to make them silly or serious, send them to numerous people from your DS wirelessly, or upload them to your computer using something capable with an SD card. Although, what I'm really looking forward to is seeing what kind of games Nintendo can come up with using the camera. I am also looking forward to using the internet too! I mean it must be faster than my 1998 piece of crap.

It's interesting, (although I have never used it) that there is already a music player for the DS for $20, yet they add it to the DSi. But, I'm just going to guess that thing doesn't have the ability to change the pitch, rate, and record like the DSi.


If there's anything that I haven't already posted go ahead and post it :]

[StormKlowd61]

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It's going to fail. A music player and camera won't save the fact that there's no GBA port whcih means no GBA games, and (MUCH more importantly) no Guitar Hero: On Tour. I'll stick with my DS Lite. At least Nintendo's trying though.

EDIT: If you try to put in an SD Card with doenloaded games on, the system perma-freezes... kinda smart.

[supersonicpwns]

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isn't it going to be in HD? and i agree storm, its going to fail. but im going to get it just to see if it does or doesn't fail.

[SkySeal]

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hopefully the camera is well used in some games
im not very interested in taking leisure pictures with a game system
also the music capability is nice im curious as to how well that concept will work (player interface etc)
thinner is cool i guess, although i didn't mind the size of the ds lite
not sure about the SD card slot tho

[NFD]

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Yay.

$170, D:

[argo15]

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SD slot, mabey someone will make a DS homebrew.

[Izzy]

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sounds interesting.

[TheRapingDragon]

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SD slot, mabey someone will make a DS homebrew.

You're a bit behind the times.

Also, no GBA slot pretty much ruins it. I don't care about a camera. I don't care about a music player. I want to play games, not music and pictures.

[kylehaas]

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I think it's a sick attempt to get a few more pennies out of the DS.
I've hacked both my DS's, I'm not going to bother with a DSi. I've already got EVERYTHING.
Plus, it really pisses me off that Nintendo had to act all cool and put an "i" in the title.
Seriously, what the hell!?
I hate 99.99% of electronic products with an abnormally lower-cased "i."

Gah.
No, I will not praise this thing.

[mnoed]

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It's interesting how nobody talks about it's free online capabilities. Either nobody cares about it, or it's one of the good things about the DSˇ

[TheRapingDragon]

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It's interesting how nobody talks about it's free online capabilities. Either nobody cares about it, or it's one of the good things about the DSˇ

Again - who cares. DS already had wifi and I could play against people around the world so what's the difference?

[tsugomaru]

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I don't see how the lack of a GBA slot will cause this system to fail. People didn't buy the DS to play GBA games and people didn't buy the DSLite to play GBA games. When the Gameboy Color was still popular, there were plenty of great games that you could play on it. When the Gameboy Advance came out, I still played plenty of GBC games, but I eventually switched to all GBA games. When the DS came out, I still played several GBA games, but that eventually switched to DS games. I still have all three consoles like most people and if I ever wanted to play an older game, I could just use one of my older consoles.

People who buy a DS nowadays aren't going to be looking for GBA games to play on them, they will be looking for DS games to play on them. There are plenty of good DS games out there and because of the new hardware capabilities of the DSi, I have no doubt that a few developers will manage to come up with some brilliant game that works perfectly with that console in specific. There will most definitely be another Pokemon game released where it has extra features if used on the DSi through the improved online capabilities, improved graphics, and although it may be a far stretch, the cameras. This will further motivate people to buy the DSi.

Not only that, I have plenty of friends who were planning to get a DS Lite over a year ago, but after hearing the possibility of another iteration of the DS, they decided to wait until the DSi comes up before they decided to purchase one. Undoubtedly, they are not the only people in the world who has made this decision.

The console has already proven to be a relative success in Japan without any strong hardware support, I see no reason why it wouldn't succeed in America. Buying the console immediately may not make sense to you, it sure doesn't for me. I'd wait until several good DSi exclusives come out before I would start consider getting it. However, just because you don't think it's a good idea to buy it off from the start or you don't think many people would doesn't mean the console is going to fail.

~Tsugomaru

[JPjuice23]

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-2 cameras: one on the outside (for your friends), and another on the inside (for self portraits).

Its 0.3 megapixels. My crappy Razr is better then this.

Nintendo is trying to catch up to the PSP, which is dumb because they won the handheld wars due to the amount of games and its simplicity.

[tsugomaru]

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Catch up?

~Tsugomaru

[Chromer]

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Let me rephrase that. The DSi is trying to be the next iPod Touch and not doing a very good job at it. Nintendo should stick to making games and stop trying to copy off of Apple.