To all the people who are complaining that you cannot play imported games, stop complaining and read again. It clearly says that the SOFTWARE is region locked not the games. "and still play non-local DS games on the DSi" which is said. So that means you still can play games from other countries but cannot download the new software (Probably updates to the photo editing it has or something like that).
Nintendo: DSi is region-locked
Oct 7th 2008 1:49AM (Joystiq Nintendo)"and still play non-local DS games on the DSi" which is said. So that means you still can play games from other countries but cannot download the new software (Probably updates to the photo editing it has or something like that).