Nintendo’s hit DS portable machine will come with a digital camera that will allow players to mix images, scribble on photos and create new faces, the Japanese game maker said Thursday. The Nintendo DSi will go on sale in Japan on Nov. 1 for 18,900 yen ($180), and will be available overseas next year. Dates and other details for overseas plans will be announced later by the company’s regional units later, President Satoru Iwata said. Iwata said the revamped DS is meant to be the first toy camera for children and a tool for network-building and party fun for older people in the company’s ongoing quest to make gaming popular with everyone — not just a niche crowd. One in six Japanese already owns a DS, according to Kyoto-based Nintendo, which also makes Pokemon and Super Mario games. But the goal is to make the DS a must-have for every Japanese, Iwata said. The improved DSi is thinner than the current DS model, and will have a bigger screen, he said. The machine also comes with an audio player, to play sound stored in a memory card. Users will be able to change the speed of the sound. In a demonstration, Iwata showed that players will be able to listen to a foreign language lesson at a slower speed, or distort music or voices to a shrill pitch for fun. Nintendo also demonstrated new game software for its hit Wii home console, including “Wii Music.” Players just need to jiggle their remote controller to feel as though they are playing any of 60 musical instruments, including a drum set, sitar, saxophone and piano, although there are only 50 preprogrammed melodies. Nintendo has sold 77.5 million Nintendo DS handheld devices worldwide, nearly 23 million in Japan, far outselling Sony Corp.’s rival offering, the PlayStation Portable, at 41 million globally — 10 million in Japan.
^^well for the price, its alright at least it has a built in camera now -unsure.. no clue what is the use for it though.. when it is outside of it lol edit: i wonder why this is in the technology section? isn't it suppose to be in the game section lol
lol, im so getting one, hope the graphics are improved too . and the touch screen doesnt get scratched so easily,
i'll bet you graphics won't be improving, it is all about their games that has the graphics in it lol. not sure about the touch screen getting scratched easy though.. doesn't seem like my ds is scratch at all. wait til 2009 have fun waiting lol
lol, i heard there a SD Slot in this as well, so its meant to put Games? or Music Only? lol , and shouldnt have have a camera on the inside as well? lol , if they made the screen bigger, then at least a SLIGHT improve on graphics?
^^music only i'll bet you. nintendo wouldn't want people to download games and then just put it on a sd card do they? they rather make you buy games lmao :laugh2:
lol, screw the r4 tho, the crew is dead, so no new updates and etc not sure if the r4 can even support the new ds games, lol but if it does work, import one for me as well
lol but i dont thinkmuch people will get the new DS, if there is no way of putting roms on it, after all, we're cheapos lol
lol well im sure another way of putting roms on the new ds will be released very quickly... and i still need to get the most recent update for the r4 because i haven't updated it in ages... like ever since i got it >___<
Still no WPA wireless encryption. You lose the Gameboy Advance slot to gain the SD slot. The camera is very low resolution. Hard to imagine that it will have good sound quality when playing music files. Nintendo might not even support MP3's directly. They could make you convert them into a new proprietary music file format before it can play them.
lol, not like anyone plays GBA games on the DS anyway thats what a Gameboy Advance is for , lol lol prob like a Nintento Mp3 file called the Np3
apparently thats cos they will have a link to their new nintendo download centre for the ds which means that u can download old gba games but the problem with that is u have to pay. so they are looking at a way to make money also i guess.
All businesses aim to make money. I heard that this DS was released to block out slot 1 card products like R4, M3 and other DS Slot-1 cards. They just made a SD-Slot so that any games you buy via download will be stored on the SD. This kinda reminds me of the PS3 and the Xbox360 where you can download on to the hard drive. But I think it may still be possible to download games for free and store them on the SD via the USB.
^ of course.... im sure some homebrew software will beable to load an executable from the sd card and basically emulate games....
