
The dimensions of the full-sized Nintendo DS are: 5.85x3.33x1.13 inches, giving us a volume of 22.01 cubic inches.
The dimensions of the diminutive Nintendo DS lite are: 5.24x2.91x0.85 inches, giving us a volume of 12.96 cubic inches.
While it might not look much smaller than the full-sized DS, the DS lite is in fact over 40% smaller by volume. To give you some context, we'll list the volume of some other devices you might be familiar with:
- Game Boy micro: 5.6 cubic inches
- Game Boy Advance: 17.64 cubic inches
- Game Boy Advance SP: 9.81 cubic inches
- Sony PSP: 17.52 cubic inches
- Atari Lynx: 68.53 cubic inches
- Xbox 360 power supply: 51.96 cubic
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(Update: To sate curiosity, the above dimension for the Atari Lynx comes from the original design. More interesting is that the redesigned Lynx II is actually larger by volume. Original Lynx dimensions: 10.75x4.25x1.5 inches, versus the redesigned Lynx II: 9.25x4.25x2 inches. The volumes of the two units are 68.53 cubic inches and 78.62 cubic inches, respectively. Who'da thunk?)
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/baby bitching
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i loved that thing, but it chewed through batteries.
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play games on it. The new ds isn't coming out for a few months.
I'm kinda bummed too since the new ds pretty much addresses most of the problems I have with the ds. I'll probably suck it up and buy a new one in the summer or something. And then donate my old ds to a needy psp owner ;)
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My XBOX 360 broke yesterday (the red ring of death). Sloopydrew's 360 January 7th, 2006 - January 26th, 2006. Aged 19 days. XBOX Live Arcade Gauntlet and Geometry Wars: $10.00. 3 mediocre games: $180.00. XBOX Live Gold subscription: $50.00. A broken 360? Worthless.
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http://trilancer.blogspot.com
In addition to an illustration of my own redesign.
I really hoped Nintendo would have added the LED lighted buttons. Maybe next redesign.
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The smaller, better looking unit means alot of folks that were put off by how clunky the original DS is will be getting on board with this one.
Me included!
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i am an xbox fanboy and i think the 360 launch was horrible. xbox 1 launch was 10 times better, because it launched with halo and had just as many games 18 vs 19 for the 360. the xbox sold 1.4 million compared the 360's 600,000 units in the same amount of time, because of very bad descions by microsoft, like not building enough.
i still can't find one in my area and i call everyday and i read some where before the launch that ms had partnered with three company's to assemble the 360, but they are just now bringing the third factory online. i mean HELLO
as for the power brick, all the penis envy over a power supply. please go get some blue steel or surgery and drop it. damn
attacking a poor consoles power stick because it is. umm, more well endowed is just shamefull and telling
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Damn the Lynx was killer though. Thank budda for the car lighter adapter though, that thing did eat through AA's!
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We have many things, including my dad's work laptop (I'm not gonna turn off security anyway, but that's a big reason to keep it on) that are all using WPA on the network. So my little brother got the USB dongle and it promptly broke a bunch of networking settings on the family PC. I never got it to work, and when I tried to uninstall it nothing worked. I can't even try a reinstall because the installer crashes now for some reason. Luckily I got it working on another machine so my brother can stop whining about it but it was a real pain in the ass, just because they decided to not support WPA...
OK, done with my rant. This is definitely a better looking machine. Thinking about a purchase... but it'd probably collect dust since I'm so busy all the time.
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As for the new DS, I'm kinda dissapointed in the new design. It's smaller, sure... but it doesn't look much more ergonomic, does it? My thumb's still going to cramp up when I play Mario Kart, and I'm still gonna have to hold it a little funny to get my fingers on the triggers. It looks nice, yeah... but I dunno. It just looks less comfortable due to the size.
My favorite portable to hold is the Gameboy Micro, I think. Small, but great buttons with good placement.
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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v99/therealdz/dsliteipod.jpg
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How do you know its too thin when the only official shots released are from face on? That angled mock-up does not look right to me at all. Wishful thinking i believe (its looks like its half the thickness when the numbers say its only 25% thinner). Also note the numbers given are only of overall dimensions. I expect the bottom half of the new ds to be thicker than the top to accomodate for the gba slot.
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