Nintendo Announce DSi - Updated

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Nintendo Announce DSi - Updated

Post by Steve Farrelly @ 11:16am 03/10/08 | 17 Comments

Nintendo Co Ltd (Nintendo of Japan), have revealed an updated version of the DS, simply called Nintendo DSi. The new system still features a touch screen and regular screen (both larger than the original DS screens, though), as well as a 0.3 megapixel camera. It also features a built-in web browser where you'll equally be able to visit a DSi Store to purchase DSiWare titles as they slowly roll out from the system's Japanese release date of November 1.

According to Nintendo, the DSi features much improved sound, the ability to adjust pitch and playback and can also take SD Memory Cards.

Currently there's no word on when (or if) the system will hit outside of Japan, but it seems likely
we'll see this sometime in 2009. Hit this link for a video of the new Nintendo DSi running, or here for images.

UPDATE: Nintendo of Europe have confirmed the DSi will be hitting the region in 2009 around March. We've contacted Nintendo of Australia with no response yet, but an educated guess would put the machine on our shores during the Easter holiday, 2009.

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Mr Hardware
Posted 11:21am 03/10/08

DS injected?

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ViscoS
Posted 11:24am 03/10/08

Wonder what the trade in price will be like at EB.

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d0mino
Posted 11:28am 03/10/08

i'll be in japan for the launch, doubt i'll be able to get my hands on one though. ... .. . .

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Nailbomb
Posted 11:36am 03/10/08

Nintendo have been just as bad as Sony with handhelds of late. I'd much rather they announce a true nextgen successor to the DS and PSP rather than these rehashed models.

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Midda
Posted 11:38am 03/10/08

I've read a whole lot of mixed reports about the camera. Half of the sites are saying that the external camera is 3 megapixel, and the inner one is 0.3 megapixel, and the other half are saying that it's got two 0.3 megapixel cameras. The latter doesn't make much sense to me, 0.3 megapixel seems retarded, so I hope it's a mistake.

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`ViPER`
Posted 11:46am 03/10/08

fyi, the reports that it has 2 touchscreens is wrong, only one is touchscreen, but they are both bigger.

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Midda
Posted 11:57am 03/10/08

Wonder what the trade in price will be like at EB.

Something like this I'd imagine:

Trade in your DS Lite and 7 games to receive $50 off the price of the DSi!

Anyone who does those trade-ins are fucking idiots.

My girlfriend was telling me that they get in serious trouble if they try to tell a customer not to bother with the trade-in and just buy it.

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Steve Farrelly
Posted 12:06pm 03/10/08

Nintendo of Australia are closed today until monday - what a jib. I need Aussie release info :|

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Hyperslide
Posted 12:28pm 03/10/08

0.3 megapixel camera WTF ...what a waste of time a 0.3 MP camera is

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partyhat
Posted 01:19pm 03/10/08

Nailbomb, making a new portable for Nintendo right now would be one of the stupidest things they could do. The DS basically prints money and isn't showing signs of slowing down for anytime in the future, especially with new features like these.

It does make more sense for Sony to need something before Nintendo though.

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Raven
Posted 02:05pm 03/10/08

0.3 megapixel camera WTF ...what a waste of time a 0.3 MP camera is

Why, it only has an 0.3mpx screen or somewhere thereabouts anyway, so what's the point in higher since it's obviously designed for device-to-device interaction.

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Jum
Posted 02:48pm 03/10/08

i cant see myself upgading from my DS lite, i don't really care about any of those features (the web browser would be nice, but i would rather put the money towards an iphone or something if i really wanted to use the net on the go)

edit: and thats assuming its actually better than the shitty opera ds browser

last edited by Jum at 14:48:55 03/Oct/08

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d0mino
Posted 03:39pm 03/10/08

new portable hardware for nintendo has aaaalways been a slow burn.

gameboy -> gameboy colour -> gameboy sp -> nintendo ds -> ds lite -> dsi. every system is always backwards compatible. so your either on the nintendo portable train or not.

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Midda
Posted 03:54pm 03/10/08

gameboy -> gameboy colour -> gameboy sp -> nintendo ds -> ds lite -> dsi

You missed the Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Advance and Gameboy Micro. Slow burn indeed.

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Anonyname!
Posted 01:43pm 05/10/08

The article doesn't mention the fact that the newer model lacks the Gameboy Advance game slot. So its no longer backwards compatible with GBA games...

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icewyrm
Posted 01:51pm 05/10/08

You missed the Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Advance and Gameboy Micro.

There was a Gameboy Light too.

The article doesn't mention the fact that the newer model lacks the Gameboy Advance game slot. So its no longer backwards compatible with GBA games...

Kinda lame imo, GBA slot is handy.

last edited by icewyrm at 13:51:39 05/Oct/08

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Midda
Posted 09:30pm 05/10/08

Yeah, that's odd. Doesn't the Guitar Hero game on DS use that slot?

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