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April 6th, 2009 at 11:58 am
I picked up a blue and black one on Sunday. A black one for me and a blue one for my fiance. We both really like it me being a little more intense about gaming I am a little more excited about it than my fiance. The buttons and d pad feel a lot better. Also the screens are noticibly brighter and bigger. The touch screen feels better and sturdier and the DLC is great. I got my free 1000 Nintendo points and down loaded Wario Ware Snapped and it is a lot of fun when it works. You have to have perfect conditions to get the camera to register but when you can get it to work its a lot of fun. I also downloaded the browser and it works pretty well and I played with the cameral and it was good as well.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Hannah Montana… Jack… please. Can we do something about that picture? Maybe Photoshop a dagger in her head?
April 6th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
As for the article, the DSi is for kids? Last I saw the “kiddy” DS had the most diverse (and one of, if not the best) selection of games on any handheld system in history.
As for the question, I love the idea behind the DSi, but my old 1st gen DS still works just fine, so I don’t think I’ll be buying it. (That and my Zune (30GB) just broke so that’s another $200 out of my pocket)
April 6th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
ZOMG! Sony said something rude and slightly true about their competitors new product, the nerve!!!
April 6th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
@DaveRage
“Slightly true”? How is claiming that the DSi is a “kiddy” system remotely true? It has something for everybody on it; kids, teens, and adults alike.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
@HyperPhazon
The new iteration offers a below average cell camera and aac player. This is something only a child would desire, as most adults have had these perks on their cell phones for years now.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
“ZOMG! Sony said something rude and slightly true about their competitors new product, the nerve!!!”
Well you’ve just given anybody who reads your comments reason to doubt your objectivity. Didn’t we hear from the DS skeptics for years that the DS was for non-gaming grandmas and housewives, and seniors? Now as it passes 100 million, it’s back to kids? This is pathetic, and only a hardcore Sony fan would think otherwise.
It’s this kind of mud-slinging crap that got Sega lost in the woods for the SegaCD/Saturn Era. Sony should have learned.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
yeah- the sony rep starts off well. the psp is definitely a more robust platform for media beyond games.
but he sure loses that sense of coherency fast!
April 6th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Unless Hannah Montana comes packaged with the DSi, I’ll pass. Not nearly enough different from a DS Lite.
Now if Miley was included, the system would definitely be NOT be considered kiddy.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
“The new iteration offers a below average cell camera and aac player. This is something only a child would desire, as most adults have had these perks on their cell phones for years now.”
Well that seals it. You’ve gone off the deep end. You don’t even know what you’re saying anymore, only your own judgments of what a child might want. Not worth arguing.
April 6th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
@Jeff
Though the Sony comment is filled with much hyperbole, there is some truth in there. The new DS model isn’t doing much to expand its already present adult market. Outside of DSiWare, the changes are mostly superfluous and likely to draw the attention of youth.
April 6th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I picked mine up at midnight….only one at my local walmart….but it’s great. The best part for me is the arrival/return of the “clicky” dpad.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
The battery on my first generation DS is starting to go bad. It used to last for, like, eight hours on a single charge, and now it seems to be having trouble staying alive for two to three hours. So I’m going to have to upgrade pretty soon. I guess I don’t have much of a choice.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
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April 6th, 2009 at 6:44 pm
I bought mine on Sunday. I’m loving it. I haven’t gamed on a handheld since the GBC so I’m pretty hyped up about the console.
The camera is actually pretty cool. I wasn’t at all interested when it was announced, but it takes pretty decent pictures and has some neat filters to play with. The DSi also tags your pictures by days on the calendar so you can have a nice timeline of when you took pictures.
The web channel runs pretty well, I’m a fan of Opera’s browsing technology. I posted a few comments on this site via the browser last night, posted some updates to Twitter, read my Gmail mail, and posted comments on Facebook. I find the non-mobile versions of pages annoying as you have to constantly pan around to read pages. Luckily you can change the browser format to column mode, which smushes everything on the screen. Some bigger sites have mobile versions too which work perfectly on the DSi. I wasn’t able to load regular Facebook on the DSi, it kept complaining about browser memory running low, but other than that no issues.
I bought Phantom Hourglass and Pokemon: Platinum. I probably won’t play Pokemon until I beat Phantom Hourglass, but yea.. Zelda is really fun. I’m amazed by the graphics (again haven’t gamed since the GBC) and the touch screen and mic elements are really cool. I thought it was neat you had to physically blow out candles, you got to draw and make notes on your maps and you had to yell to get people’s attention.
Great purchase in my opinion.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
I preordered mine from amazon so it came in today (monday). I got a black one and its great. I downloaded the free browser and its pretty damn good. I’m actually typing this on my DSi. Infendo looks good on here lol.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
got a black dsi on launch day. definetly satisfied about the new features. posting on infendo on the dsi seems to be fine
April 6th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
got a black dsi on launch day. definetly satisfied about the new features. posting on infendo on the dsi seems to be fine
April 6th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
Well, I think my current username says what I think, right?
I reserved a black DSi at GameStop. Having all 3 versions of the DS, I notice a major difference innthe designs. The clamshell is slimmer and feels nice. The buttons are slightly bigger, and there is a noticable comparison between the screens and speakers of the DSi and the DS Lite.
By the way, later in the week I will make a YouTube video comparing the three generations of the DS.
@ John:
You wanted to draw a dagger in her head? Use the Graffiti filter on the DSi camera to draw as many sharp objects as you like.
April 7th, 2009 at 1:00 am
Anyone know if and when specific software will come for the DSi besides DLC?
WarioWare Snapped is great!
April 7th, 2009 at 9:13 am
@Lite
I checked Wikipedia (even though it is not 100% reliable) and all of the release dates in the US are TBA except the ones that came out on launch day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DSiWare_games_and_applications
April 7th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Meh.