The Nintendo DSi
On October 2nd Nintendo announced a new handheld. The DSi, which is really what the DS Lite is to the original DS. The new features are:
- Gameboy Advance Slot taken out.
- SD Card reader
- Music player (reads from SD)
- 2 Built in Camera’s, one 3 mega-pixel, the other 0.3 mega-pixel
- Both screens are now 3.25 inches rather than 3 inches
- 12% thinner than the DS Lite
- Built-in web browser
- Downloadable DS Ware (Games and Applications)(Some costing Nintendo Points, some free)
- Internal Memory (unknown amount)
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Personally I think this product is a bit of a waste of time. It doesn’t really add any ‘key’ features. Sure all this stuff is useful perhaps, but its not exactly revolutionary. This seems like a slightly more worthwhile update that the DS Phat to the DS Lite but, as far as I can tell it will make some games such as; Guitar Hero: On Tour obselete because of the lack of a GBA Slot. The DS Ware features of the DSi WILL be region locked. Which means anyone who imports a Japanese DSi most probably won’t be able to get any English DS Ware titles onto their DSi.
Either way, I won’t be buying a DSi unless some really groundbreaking stuff is released as DS Ware. Even then, £100+ is a lot of money to pay for an upgrade that doesn’t really add much if you have an MP3 player and camera already.
- Jackreyes
