"Nintendo DSi" or "Bash DSi here" or "Look at my sob story"

[Wilhelmina Carmel]

A few days ago I "lost" my DS lite with pokemon diamond in it. I searched EVERYWHERE in the house. So, barely a week passes and I'm like "EFF THIS" and decide to go get the new DSi (I couldn't believe it either. I seriously thought that I'd be the last person to own one). Yesterday, I go out and blow all my money on the DSi. Guess what happens later that night? I find my DS Lite in the couch even though I thought I destroyed that thing looking for my old DS. So, I'm most likely going to return it within the week... somehow.

My first impression of the DSi was that it felt nice. Love the matte stuff. I got black, by the way, the blue one looked delicious and I was afraid I was going to eat it on accident. As always, turning on any DS for the first time makes you CONFIGURE THAT SHIT BEFORE YOU USE IT. ...So I did! I did that and, goddamn, what was the first thing it showed me? DSi Camera. NONONONONO, I want to play my game, not snap a picture of my face.

 

Honestly, my cell phone takes better pictures.




Face recognition is horrible, no mater the lighting, conditions, etc... Also my brother and I aren't related.

So, I had to sit all through those stupid instructions. Very, very, lame. SUDDENLY FILTERS. TONS OF THEM. Maybe fun if you're feelin' a little bored. Otherwise, stinky. Especially, the facial recognition ones.

Basically, it takes pictures and has gimmicks.

The next thing I see is DSi Sound. OH WOW HEY LOOK MUSIC I'M GOING TO PUT SOME ON THERE.......................................................... WTF AAC FILES ONLY I had to go download iTunes which was a hassle in itself and then convert them which was a pain because that means wasted storage and iTunes doesn't wanna put converted file into a folder where I can easily access them NOPE! It has to put them all over the place in my music drive!!

DSi Sound is one of the most ugliest things I've ever seen. I guess it's kind of cute in a way.


See DSi sound in action, but not really because I took out the SD card.

There are equalizers. Just four. Instrumental, echo, radio, and eight-bit. A LOT of visualizations, too. One of them is excitebike and the other is a Mario coin-collecting mini-game.

Not much about it. It plays music and has gimmicks.

One thing I like is that you can take out game cards while on the DSi menu (also in video). I forget if the other DS's could do that, so if someone could fill me in, that'd be great. You ca also re-arrange stuff on the DSi menu by dragging shit around.

[Wilhelmina Carmel]

obligatory posting from DSi

also, with the DSi, you get 1000 free nintendo points and you can download the Opera web browser for free...

[Nines~Tempest]

You can't take out cart's in menu on  DS phat/lite.

Looks retarded!

[Rosti LFC]

[Alex]

only plays AAC files?

before i read this post, I had a 0% chance of buying it.

now, i will rip it from the hands of anyone who purchases it. 0.3 megapixels? FUUUCK YOOOOU NINTENDO

[Rosti LFC]

only plays AAC files?

before i read this post, I had a 0% chance of buying it.

now, i will rip it from the hands of anyone who purchases it. 0.3 megapixels? FUUUCK YOOOOU NINTENDO

In their defence, 0.3 megapixels is also the resolution of the cameras for the PS3 and Xbox 360.

[Number 38]

No surprises.

[Wilhelmina Carmel]

tru fax

but playing a recording of I LIKE TO EAT POOP backwards can be pretty satisfying

[Fluffy Cocaine]

I saw the DSi a while ago and it wasn't appealing to me at all. I understood it, loosely, when people got a DS Lite when they already had a DS. I sort of did, even though I really bought a DS Lite so that I could give my DS to my sister. The DS Lite was genuinely nicer, thinner, more pleasing, etc. The DSi is a waste of time. The picture quality on both of those pictures is absolutely pathetic, and I don't really understand why, because it doesn't take that much more space to include a slightly better camera.

But hey, Nintendo knows how to make money.

[Alex]

Reminds me of the Micro, actually. Did that do well at all?

[Fluffy Cocaine]

Reminds me of the Micro, actually. Did that do well at all?

No.
Not by Nintendo standards.

[Cythrosi]

The Micro seemed neat but not worth the money in my eyes.  If it had been cheaper than the SP, I might have grabbed one.

[Alex]

No.
Not by Nintendo standards.

Thanks. Just as I thought. I'd predict that the DSi would do the about the same (it SHOULD do about the same, what a piece of crap :x) but obviously Nintendo's in a very different position now than they were when the GBM came out.

[Fluffy Cocaine]

Thanks. Just as I thought. I'd predict that the DSi would do the about the same (it SHOULD do about the same, what a piece of crap :x) but obviously Nintendo's in a very different position now than they were when the GBM came out.

Yeah, they are. Nintendo was dominant in the handheld section then, too, but they're more of a household name now than they were before. Nintendo wasn't really a household name before the DS/Wii. I do remember a lot of people thinking the company was called "Game Boy" back in the GBC days.

I don't expect the DSi to come even close to the success of the DS Lite, but it will sell, and already has.

[Number 38]

I don't think the DSi is anything like the Micro, really. The DSi is just the next DS Lite. The Micro was more of it's own branch, and a stupid one at that. While you could argue that they're both stupid, bear in mind that the DSi is improved in every way(CPU speed, hardware, screens, etc.) and the Micro IS SMALL. GAMEBOYS ARE ALREADY SMALL.

The DSi also comes with exclusive games which I believe the Micro did not have, although I'm not 100% sure. I think just as the Lite became the new standard, so will the DSi, eventually. Or atleast, they'll both be used and produced.

Man, the Micro was stupid. I didn't sell a single one when they came out.

[Rosti LFC]

The difference between the DSi and the micro isn't that large, in that the DSi is the third iteration of the DS series, and the Micro was the third iteration of the Game Boy Advance series (if you count the two SP models as one iteration).

The thing is, when the Micro had come out the DS was already released. We'd waited long enough for a new console and they'd delivered. This hasn't happened with the DSi. Technically it does have its own line of games and it has slightly more power in the RAM/processor department, but it's definitely not a leap forward into a new handheld console. Which is what I feel Nintendo should be getting around to by now. It's been nearly five years since the DS was released, we should be getting a bigger leap than merely adding some crappy cameras and slightly improving the graphical power.

[Genevra]

I still have my fat original DS, and I love it. I'll only get a DSi if my original breaks, no reason to get a new one when my current DS works just fine.

Sparky, I'm playing diamond too, we need to battle or something sometime. : )

[Fluffy Cocaine]

I think just as the Lite became the new standard, so will the DSi, eventually. Or atleast, they'll both be used and produced.

Well, yeah, the DSi will probably become the new standard, since I'm sure that Nintendo will slowly phase out the DS Lite just like they did with the launch DS when the DS Lite came out. I just think that now it's a question of the DS's market saturation, and I think it's pretty high by now. I don't think the DSi has enough to really pull DS Lite owners in long-term, and I don't think there really can be many more people interested in buying a DS that don't already have one, since the DS has already sold 100 million units.

[Alex]

If my DS Phat breaks, I'd probably just get a DS Lite. Depends on the DSi exclusives, I guess.

[Fluffy Cocaine]

If my DS Phat breaks, I'd probably just get a DS Lite. Depends on the DSi exclusives, I guess.

It does. If the DSi has some really killer exclusives, I may end up buying it, but I really doubt that it will unless DSi sales take off - developers will see how stupid it would be to limit their sales to the DSi market when the DS Lite/DS market is still (or at least, will inevitably still be) dominant at that point. The DSi would have to sell a LOT if it wanted to reach DS Lite territory before 2011.

Then again, if it has some really nice exclusives, people could see it as a whole new handheld instead of just an upgrade, in which case it may really sell. It depends how Nintendo promotes it, really.