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From The Sunday Times
October 5, 2008

Gadgets of the week: Nintendo DSi

Alex Pell

£100 (estimated), www.nintendo.co.uk

WHAT IS IT?The next version of Nintendo’s popular DS hand-held gaming console. After months of rumours, details have finally been confirmed about this update. The DSi will be only marginally trimmer than the existing model but will boast two slightly larger screens. It will also feature two cameras, where the current DS has none. One is a decent snapper, the second is a low-res webcam. It will have built-in memory to store downloadable games, pictures or music, whereas the present DS can store only music and needs an accessory to do so. The DSi forgoes Nintendo’s proprietory GameBoy Advance (GBA) slot in favour of a more useful SD memory-card slot. This will make it easier to play songs or view snaps, but the trade-off is that the DSi will no longer play GBA titles. It goes on sale in Japan from December, and in the UK from next spring.

SHOULD I BUY ONE?The promise of a processor that’s “twice the speed” of the DS, along with beefed-up sound, is appealing. Only the reckless would buy a DS now, unless, of course, it was going for a song.

Nintendo's new DSi is only for Japan for now

The new handheld games console wlll miss the critical Christmas period in the US and Europe

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I think the DSi sounds great, but we'll have to wait for the reviews and even more importantly first hand experience.
The GBA slot had to go sometime and after five devices that can use GBA cartridges it seems the right time.
Video would be nice, but it wouldn't be very 'Nintendo'.

Tashi Sherpa, Windermere, U.K.

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