Introducing the Nintendo DSi

Oct. 2 4:47 PM by Alicia Ashby

Possibly the biggest news out of the long-awaited Tokyo Press Conference is the official unveiling of the next model of Nintendo DS, the DSi. The DSi sacrifices the GBA slot, 12% of its thickness, and about 1/3rd of its battery life to gain internal flash memory, an SD card slot, 3.25" screens (improved from the DS Lite's 3"), a .3 megapixel (640 x 480) camera, built-in internet browser, WPA/WPA2 wireless support, and compatibility with the new DSi Store. The Japanese price of the DSi is set for 18,900 yen, or about $180 U.S.

The DSi Store is going to be the portable counterpart of the Wii Shopping Channel, offering games for download with prices ranging from free to about 800 Nintendo (formerly Wii) points. Currently the only games announced for the DSi Store are remakes of the two Brain Age games, but the DSi itself won't be launching in North America until "well into" (i.e., "probably November") 2009. That gives Nintendo a chance to get a lot of Western developers involved in developing DSi Store titles, as they did with WiiWare.

Comments

I'd be surprised if this picked up in the United States.

 

Yeah, not really feeling this one either...

 

Cutting down on the battery life makes this an inferior platform for gameplay than the original DS, in my opinion. I already bought a smart phone so I could take/swap pictures and all that other stuff.

Looks like I'll need to get another DS Lite at some point soon so I'll have a backup when my current one inevitably dies.

 

The R4 gonna work on this DSI cause R4 has made a new R4 call R4I i found it out at LINKS OMITTED i think its the link.

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Well i was posting the link and this came up LINKS OMITTED here's what the site name is: gbatemp

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