Nintendo DSi Sells Out Quickly, Reviews Coming In 72
The Nintendo DSi was released in Japan on Saturday, and the initial production run of 200,000 units has already sold out. 1Up has done some comparisons to the DS, and they have a video feature tour of the new hardware (which, predictably, has already been hacked). The image editing software is reported to be rather bare-bones, and the browsing is slow, but both features could likely be used with games in interesting ways. Nintendo will be launching a series of WarioWare games to demonstrate the DSi's capabilities. The DSi will likely reach North America next summer.
Important info missing (Score:4, Interesting)
Also, that power button looks a nightmare for lefties. you only need to tap it to reset the console? euch.
Thousands were stolen (Score:2, Interesting)
Two trailers with "thousands" of them were stolen from a harbour in Gothemburg/Sweden last weekend. According to a commenter the exact number is 18000, but [citation needed] on that one... Link in Swedish [www.idg.se].
Re:no GBA?! (Score:4, Interesting)
Update: Here's a photo of the DSi circuit board, with only a single ARM chip on it:
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2008/1101/dsi50.jpg [impress.co.jp]
The ARM7 is definitely gone.
Re:So the question I think everyone wants answered (Score:3, Interesting)
Well bother. Where the heck does Nintendo expect device sales to come from now? ... well for the first couple of months the heatseekers will schlorp these up, and after that there'll be a DSi version of the R4 and the like. Oh well.