Nintendo Unveils Large Screen Nintendo DSi

Maybe if I got a good trade in deal for my DSlite, I'd consider it, but I dont know. I rarely play my DS lite.

oh man skipping over the DSi has paid off!

New Nintendo DSi! Now, with half the battery life!

Several people have made the same comment on Slashdot:

This thing wasn't designed for us. It's designed for old people whose main complaint about the DS is that their eyes are going out and they can't see the screen very well.

The DS has saturated the hardcore gamer market, as well as the mainstream gamer market, and the casual gaming market. Now they're going for the super casual gaming market - your mom, your dad, your grandparents. This is one of the reasons the Wii is so damn popular - in addition to appealing to mainstream, casual and even the occasional hardcore gamer (like me), it appeals to the older crowd. Nursing homes are buying this for their residents. Physical rehabilitation centers are putting it down as a bullet point in their brochures. People who haven't bought a game console in years and years are buying it.

Nintendo has moved way past the normal gamer crowds. They've got them this round with both the Wii and the DS. Now they're expanding to everyone else.

And besides, I sort of miss the good old days when every move from a console maker wasn't so calculated. I liked the good old days when Sega was insane enough to put enough add-ons to the Genesis that you could build a small vacuum cleaner with it. I miss the days when people like 3DO or Atari would take big risks. Nintendo is like Apple in that it still does business the same way it used to and I think that's awesome that it's paying off for them.

Wish they'd put the GBA slot back in. I understand that most people probably never use it, but I love being able to play all of my GBA and DS games on one device.

Dudes, stop complaining about the gba slot removal. Hold onto your old phat or lite if you want to play GBA stuff.

Then get a DSi too so you can enjoy the downloadable stuff as that gets good (at least 2 good titles so far), the brighter and bigger screen, the new DSi OS, and DSi required games (as they arrive).

Also, it's funny how the DS has become like Nintendo's ipod of sorts. Yearly releases (sometimes just new colors but it seems they do have a new DS at least once a year now, sometimes we get spiffy new hardware specs like the DSi or DSi XL).

I'm still rockin my original DS Phat... maybe I'll pick up this DSi Phat when it's released...

Why don't they add something actually worthwhile? Like an accelerometer. Or both screens touch screens. Honestly.

This is turning into the George Foreman grill of handheld consoles.

North American release confirmed for early 2010, same time as the European launch.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/29/dsi-xl-dated-for-q1-2010-release-nintendo-confirms/

sorry nintedo, ive already bought the same device from you about 2 other times. maybe if you made some actual improvements to the hardware underneath id be interested.

Now that its so much bigger I guess the real reason for the GBA slot removal was piracy and not realy size.

When is it ever enough for these handhelds? I love my DS and PSP, and am not just naysaying to naysay, but these things have been out for what, 5 years? Has portable processing speed/ graphical power really leveled out?