Not to stir up a hornets nest here, but how do you guys feel about the announcement of the new larger DSiLL?

I own a Micro and an SP so I can play all the GBA and GB and GB Color games I have. I won’t purchase GH on DS and only have one game that uses rumble (Metroid Prime Pinball) so I’m set.

A DSi and one 2000 Nintendo Points Card will be purchased on July and all will be well.

I traded my DS Lite in at Game crazy and got $90 shaved off the top of the DSi’s price. I then traded in 2 Wii games I didn’t play and got another $40 knocked off. I only payed $40 plus taxes for my DSi, at just the $80 it would’ve been a good price, at $40 it was a greatdeal and a worthy upgrade.

Without my DS Lite I’m only missing the GBA port which I did not use. I have two gba sp’s and a micro. The SP’s have batteries that last about 3x as much as the DS’s. The rumble pack is loud, and honestly on the DS and DSi sound is good enough to provide a feeling of rumble when used right and works much more better than Nintendo’s rumble pak. Sound rumble is more noticeable and enjoyable on the DSi.

I don’t care about the DSi’s Guitar Hero issue’s. The team is working on one for the DSi now that I fully expect to plug into the SD card slot and have an SD card slot pass through and downloadable songs and improved controls. I probably won’t buy that one either. I’m just not a huge gh fan.

The DSi is mostly potential at this point, but a lot of it should be realiazed in the future. Some of it’s being done right now. So many people are giving this upgrade so much flak. This is a much larger jump of going from the DS Lite to the DSi then it was from the DS Phat to the DS Lite.

That first jump made games look more beutiful and made the system slimmer. The second one made the system more slimmer, the screens noticeably larger and brighter, the sound is improved, it has non-gaming related features built into the sytem that can be added to DSi only games, it adds 3 new spaces for wifi connections and updated wifi support with the possibility of a future update that could allow for more save slots and other featres; The system has an updated version of Pictochat (ya, I dont use it) and many other things that can simply be done straight out of the box when you first buy it.

When you first connect to the DSi Shop you get 1,000 Nintendo Points added toyour account and th chance to download the Opera Web Browser for free. So at $170 you’re getting a massive upgrade with plenty of potential since the system has been changed so much. You get the ability to download at least two free games and a free web browser that works great (no flash, but you can still hit news sites, forums, blogs, facebook, ebuddy for im’s and many other great things accessible only through the web…). The stylus is longer and more comfortable, you can reset the system back to the main menu without shuting it off and switch a game without shutting it off. You can cheat in Animal Crossing with swithing off the sysem too.

This system just adds so many perks. It’s even possible to manage your Wifi connection settings without using a wifi enabled game now. It’s possible to change scren brightness while in-game. How may times have you played Pokemon only to be stuck in a battle and find yourself with a red light glaring at you for too long? It usually happens that one time you decide to up the brightness and go crazy battling. You can’t save, quit and waste precious energy in the middle of a battle to lower the light. Just a aimple act of holding down the select and using the volume button saves your Mewtwo from defaulting a battle against a lesser pokemon

Yes, the sound is improved. The speakers on the system are loud, the ear phones are just a bit above meh. They did weaken it purposely, head phones are still on par wih the DS Lite, but you can tell Nintendo is trying to protect peoples ears instead of giving us a choice. Maybe that’ll be fixed in an update or something?

The DSi may not be the ideal music player, but it can be a godsend when your other device dies or when you just want to play some real games and then switch to listening to a few good songs like Thriller.

The DSi is a major upgraded for a person like myself who primariy games on the go. The better our preferred hand held device is the more we love and use it. The DSi does not need to be a Zune or a cell phone or anything else, but its’ inclusion of new gaming and non-gaming features have made it a device that I spend more time with and enjoy much more thoroughly.

Please don’t let trash like the fake Warioware DSi game turn you off from the motion sensing abilities of the DSi’s cameras or the gold mine the DSiWare can and will be. That Virtual handheld is coming only after DSiWare has some serious legs to stand on. A VH would canibalize it right now.

Please don’t let the limited music playing ability of the DSi turn you away from having custom sound tracks in DSi and DSi Enhaned games. Don’t let the fact that you only use two connections turn you away from having a wireless network with improved securty.

The screen size may have seemed not worthy of being looked at, but that slight increase makes it noticeably more comfortable to play stylus based games. And increasig text size at a constant rate with the rest of the game is never a bad thing. It won’t let your grandma play Hotel Dusk, but it will let you keep the system further away from your eyes.

The DSi is completely worth the upgrade, especially if you got a deal like I did. It’s so many things now and will be many more in the future.

The true reason for the DSi was to be able to bring up the price of the DS. It costs £50 more (in the UK) and they are now abolishing the DSLites now, so they are essentially upping the price and people are dumb enough to pay for it.

It’s a more powerful system. It’s not just the same hardware with a camera in it.

“Well all i have to say to justin is what happened to the ps3 when they took out ps2 compatability?It started failing.What is now the destiny of the dsI by comparison.”

This shows a real lack of understanding of the PS3’s situation. It has very little to do with backwards compatibility, and the part that does have to do with backwards compatibility is just that it was taken out when there weren’t enough PS3 games to play. The DS has an incredibly strong library (much stronger than the GBA) that can support itself.

The DSI is WAY to expensive. $130 for the DS Lite was to much and the DSI barely has any new hardware features worth the additional $50.

Two low-res cameras: 20 cents each
16mb of slow ass ram: $.20
Ripping off your loyal fans: Priceless

The DSI needs to be $100. Then i might buy it. But my biggest interest in DS arent games i buy, if you know what i mean