It seems that Nintendo DSi owners in Japan have already started digitally receiving their copies of the newest firmware, v1.4. The refresh brings little more than the Facebook photo uploading we heard (very little) about back at E3 2009. How little more, you ask? The Nintendo Japan page also lists "faster image display speed in [the] DSi camera." That's it.
Nintendo announced during E3 that the functionality would be hitting American DSis "this fall." We've asked the company for a more firm release date in other territories and will update this post if we hear back. In the meantime, check out a quick walkthrough that our pal Ittousai from Engadget Japan put together for us, just after the break.
Update: Nintendo has responded to us by saying "We have not announced a launch date."
So both Nintendo and Microsoft are working on connections with social networks. I really hope Sony doesn't let this opportunity pass by and actually works on similar functionality. I love me my social media and I love me my PlayStations.
myspace sucks. for me it started out with asianavenue for the asians then it was xanga, then myspace, and now facebook. twitter is coming along but that thing is like some blog you can follow instead of meeting new people
Facebook became popular when it appeared that MySpace was being overrun by the dregs of society.
The fun part is that those "dregs" will move up too, and "ruin" facebook for the hipsters eventually, and they'll have to move on to somewhere else. Then the cycle will begin anew
Darn. I thought we'd get it by the summer. I'm going to be going on a trip and my only internet-compatible device is my DSi.
Do you know whether it actually makes it possible to visit Facebook and/or update your status? Because I've tried going on there with my DSi, but it always runs out of memory long before the page can fully load.
How do you find out if there is a new firmware available?
On the Wii it's easy as it has WiiConnect24 and the blue pulsing light. None of which the DSi has. So how do you know/where do you go to download the firmware?
I really don't want facebook to get any more popular in Japan. I don't want to have to deal with friends from there too. Only one or two or them really know what it is right now.
Wow. Anybody else who has a large fanbase of rabid 16-year-old emo girls that must know exactly what you are doing at the exact moment that you are doing it needs this to make life easier.
Nah, not a mass panic, people are more cool-headed at GBAtemp then you think. Many DSi compatible carts are updateable themselves, Acekard 2i, Supercard DSi One and M3i Zero to my knowledge can be updated to my knowledge. Some others like the non-piracy iPlayer cannot though.
Yeah, I only have one Japanese friend on Facebook, and as far as I know she's only there to keep in touch with American friends from when she was an exchange student here.
