Nintendo DSi unstoppable in Japan

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

The Nintendo DS is simply unstoppable in Japan. The Nintendo DSi has managed to sell over a million units in Japan. Thanks to the new DSi, the whole Nintendo DS line has managed to sell over 24 million units in Japan alone. Not too shabby hey?

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Nintendo registers new Nintendo DSi patents

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Nintendo has registered a few new patents that they’re planning to use for the new Nintendo DSi and other Nintendo DS projects. There’s a few interesting names in the list that definitely sound promising… (more…)

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Importing Nintendo DSi will cost you $300

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Our most recent site poll indicates that about 56% of all gamers is planning on importing their Nintendo DSi from Japan. If you really want to import a NDSi at launch, you’ll have to play a lot of money for it. You’ll need to pay at least $300 to get one on the day it launches. After you heard this, are you still planning on getting a DSi from Japan? Continue reading if you’re still in the mood to import one. (more…)

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Nintendo DSi Japanese features tour

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

On November 1st, which is only a week away from now, the Nintendo DSi will launch in Japan for 18900 Yen. The promotion for this redesigned version of the popular Nintendo DS handheld has already started. Today Nintendo released this video to show off the features of the new NDSi, enjoy!

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Nintendo DSi games line-up montage

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Reader Nick has noticed that there was a cool video that was shown during Nintendo of Japan’s Media Summit that we haven’t posted yet. In the trailer above Nintendo showed off a bunch of cool upcoming games for the new Nintendo DSi. There’s a list of all shown games after the break, so hit the jump to check them out! (more…)

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Nintendo DSi size compared to PSP-3000 and iPhone

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Joystiq made a nice comparison between the Nintendo DSi, PSP-3000 and iPod Touch/iPhone. Massively wrote a nice article about the MMO potential of all three systems.

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Pedometer and Fitness game coming to Nintendo DSi

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Not only did Nintendo announce the new Nintendo DSi, it also announced a brand new accessory for the Nintendo DS handhelds. The Nintendo DS pedometer will be used in an upcoming fitness game from Nintendo. The name of this game hasn’t been announced yet, but it will probably be something like Lifestyle Rhythm DS. The pedometer and the fitness game are due to come out this November in Japan.

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Nintendo DSi launching in North America after April 2009

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

When the new Nintendo DSi was announced during Nintendo’s Media Summit we found out that the device would launch well into 2009 in North America. Reggie Fils-Aime has announced in an interview with G4 that they won’t be launching the new DSi until the next fiscal year, so that’s after April. Meanwhile, Nintendo wants to boost the sales of the Nintendo DS Lite. In the interview he also talks about the importance of the new DS Shop function.

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Brain Age 1 and Brain Age 2 being republished for DSi

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

Nintendo is reproducing both versions of its popular Brain Age games for the Nintendo DSi. Brain Age 1 and Brain Age 2 will be the first titles available in the DSi Shop. Nintendo’s developers will implement some special DSi features in the game.

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Nintendo DSi announced during Japanese Nintendo Media Summit

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

During its Nintendo Media Summit press conference in Japan, Nintendo’s CEO Satoru Iwata has revealed the Nintendo DSi, the latest Nintendo handheld with an even slicker design and more features than the extremely popular Nintendo DS Lite.

The Nintendo DSi is 12% or 2.6 millimeters slimmer than the Nintendo DS Lite, but Nintendo had to sacrifice the GBA slot in order to make the Nintendo DSi smaller. The Nintendo DSi has two beautiful 3.25 inch screens and better speakers. The device has a 3 megapixel on the outside and a 0.3 megapixel VGA camera located next to the DSi’s microphone, both have a 640×480 resolution. Thanks to these cameras, the DSi has different camera and audio functions delivering new and innovative gameplay.

There were rumors that the NDSi has two touch-screens, but there’s only one touch screen. Only the bottom screen of the DSi is a touch-screen and can be used for adjusting sound playback, editing pictures and other new features. You can export pictures to your DSi with SD-cards, but the device also has some internal memory for storing apps purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. Some of these apps will be free, others will cost 200, 500 or 800 Nintendo Points. Japanese gamers who purchase the Nintendo DSi by March 2010 will receive 1000 Nintendo Points as a gift.

The Nintendo DSi will come out in Japan on November 1st for 18900 Yen. More details to come! (more…)

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