DS Daily: Three hundred dollars

rofl troll

Me, the biggest DS fan on this site, I'm a troll?

Bowser voice: har-ha-ha.

If you're too intellectually weak to come up with a rebuttal then please stand down and shut the fuck up. Moron.

i totaly agree with you. These@enchancements simply not worth of that money and kinda crappy in general. For me GBA suppport is more valuable than shitty cameras and SD slot (thus kinda useless when u have flasher)

There's always one fool who ends up swearing over something as trivial as this.

How petty you truly are. I pity your type.

majorfalcon, I agree with him. This is the weakest update to a product ever. Nintendo should be ashamed...

"This is the weakest update to a product ever. Nintendo should be ashamed..."

I dunno, there have been some pretty weak Gameboy and PSP updates...

majorfalcon is just one of the many idiots on the internet.
You're calling the 1st poster a troll just because he enumerated a few pertinent reasons for choosing not to import a DS? (especially with $100 over its retail price).

@TFoK

No joke, PSP fans upgraded to a smaller PSP with a screen that has awful tearing and in some cases the display doesn't even work. Atleast Nintendo's products always work.

The BEST thing about the DSi is that it ditched the awful enamel finish for a more matte finish, much better for a portable device that has your hands all over it and should be able to slide into your pocket without a case to keep it from getting scratched.

http://www.gamekyo.com/videoen13429_nintendo-dsi-one-more-video.html

DSi video ^

Going to have to agree with Bowser on this one. It may be a nice perk for new buyers, but paying a premium to have one now is a little nuts.

lol Bowser got trolled.

ITT: Irony

Rawrzilla is a straight A student. Look how he nailed the definition of irony, folks.

Bowser, you would be funny if you didn't hammer your own wit into the ground by forcing it and just sounding like an ass. Subtlety is, itself, an art.

@scissors125

I really agree with you on the region lock situation. I really can't understand why anyone in their right mind would want to import a system that can't play games in a understandable language.

Although the lost of gba playability is a little discouraging, I believe I'll still be getting a US DSi. Its about time for a upgrade anyway, my DS phat's touchscreen has been acting all screwy. The extra screen space should be great for homebrew like colors ds.

Please see my comment a little bit above yours

Dropping old technology and advancing hardware is what is known as "progress", nintendo's not moving backwards by any means.

graphical enhancement isn't easy when you have to:
1) maintain asect ratio and pixel dimensions for backward compatibility. The best they could do is offer bigger and better screens (larger pixels) like they apparently have. Unless you like playing with black borders a la Game Boy Advance on the DS (I dislike playing GBA on DS with a passion), and even if you got graphical enhancement you'd be left with games that only work with one or the other device. I don't think this will go down well, at least not now. Compatibility is important.

2) speaking of which, it's probably time they removed that GBA slot, as they have. Like some have said, anyone who really wants GBA has a GBA device, I would think. There is probably a minority who would miss it, and that's too bad. It's not like you could even play multiplayer with GBA on the DS anyway, so... I tend to think it's about time they tossed it, but it is a bit of a shame, too.

People still have plenty of time to buy a Lite or original DS (second-hand), and it means a Lite isn't 'totally useless' given this new hardware.

3) Carrying your DS Lite, MP3 player, digicam and portable DVD sounds like a chore, and I doubt the DSi is aiming to compete squarely with all these devices, but Nintendo have made it a more social, fun and useful device; in fact the upgrade is quite substantial, if you ask me. Nobody is forcing you to buy it. Nintendo make an offering, you decide if it's worth it.

4) they have made many fun enhancements to the device and some much needed storage, and more internet capabilities. I think they have done well under the circumstances. I just hope the battery is user-replaceable like the current Lite.

For this price I think it's low-value, but not to worry; you don't have to import in about 6 months. I fail to see the views of people calling this a minor update when so many Game Boy And Game Boy Advance and DS updates before this offered far less (and also omitted backwards compatibility).

Great going Nintendo, I say.

tekdroid you have a valed point i really think that they have a pretty big upgrade considering what the ds started out with( touch screen and a mic ) and even before that was the game boy sp and that was in only 2005 that it cam out and it only had a light up screen that's a three year upgrade right now the ds is being used for everything but gaming.

so the fact that nintendo is even putting out a piece of hardware like this is amazing i mean com on we cnat forget the people that dont have a homebrew card or the one's that have NEVER ever heard of home brew.

and other than gutair hero who really use's the gba slot now.

after the dsi comes out if want to play a gamebot game then i will just pull out my old gameboy advance

Exactly. People who can't bother to wait a little longer for what I feel isn't even a worthy upgrade are just extremely unwise. You've got all kinds of financial crisis all around you and you're willing to dish out 175 or so extra bucks for no better reason than to show off your DS camera a few months sooner than the rest of the country.

I'm not even getting one when it DOES come to the States because I don't have a need for any of the add-ons. It's cute, but very unnecessary.

i feel the same way

I agree, all these dsi hate articles are annoying as hell. I'll probably steer clear of DSFanboy for a while.

I don't think I'm insulting the DSi by saying it costs three hundred dollars to buy one. I think that's what we call a "fact," and one that may have bearing on people's decision-making process.

I took your language to imply a dig, while not at the DSi itself, at Japanese exporters for marking the price waaaayyy up.

That, or I have simply mistaken blogging for journalism again. I suppose I should stop expecting bloggers to have even an iota of journalistic ability, when the internet is all about conspiracy theories and the self-importance of the reader. I apologize.

Oh come on, you've been whining over and over about the friggin' gba slot. backwards compatibility helps when a system has a weak selection of games, but the ds is a big boy now, it can stand on it's own merit. and besides, the back compatibility wasn't that great to begin with.(no multiplayer, gbc/original game boy games didn't work, e-reader only worked with the lite)

I also have to believe anyone who loves the game boy advance that much has at least one other device that can play them.(there's even a portable dvd player with a gba slot for god's sake)

as for the slot 2 accessories, there's really nothing so good that you should be upset about losing them.(again, anyone who cares probably already has a phat/lite that can make use of them anyway)

Well I hope she can speak Japanese. They removed all options to switch to English and reigon locked it.

....Also considering that people are reacting to the JAPANESE price, as well. The DSi will not cost 200$ USD. It will probably cost 200$ CAD, but that's just because nothing makes sense in Canada.

I'm pretty sure sega has the say in whether or not to make pso a dsi only game, unless I missed the part where nintendo is developing it. and even then it'd only be dsi exclusive if they decide that downloadable content is integral to the phantasy star zero experience.