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Nintendo DSi Sells Out Quickly, Reviews Coming In

Posted by Soulskill on from the empty-shelves dept.

The Nintendo DSi was released in Japan on Saturday, and the initial production run of 200,000 units has already sold out. 1Up has done some comparisons to the DS, and they have a video feature tour of the new hardware (which, predictably, has already been hacked). The image editing software is reported to be rather bare-bones, and the browsing is slow, but both features could likely be used with games in interesting ways. Nintendo will be launching a series of WarioWare games to demonstrate the DSi's capabilities. The DSi will likely reach North America next summer.

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  1. Important info missing by abigsmurf · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Can someone confirm WPA support already? I know it's not possible with older games but WEP is the main barrier to me using the DS' wireless.

    Also, that power button looks a nightmare for lefties. you only need to tap it to reset the console? euch.

    1. Re:Important info missing by aliquis · · Score: 4, Informative

      I read on gbatemp earlier that WPA support was indeed there (see thread about Yasus hack/video for the post in question.)

      Why shouldn't it work with older games to? I think the network part is rather separated from the games, considering you have to restart the DS between configuration and using the network in Metroid Prime, and it always looks the same.

    2. Re:Important info missing by jibster · · Score: 3, Informative

      I understand that the network layer is not separated in the DS as you would expect. So the GP is correct, WPA will not work with older games *unless* Nintendo do some very fancy tricks to fool the game.

      This has been a critism of the system by developers from the start.

    3. Re:Important info missing by mollymoo · · Score: 2, Informative

      But greeted with indifference by the vast majority of end-users.

      A rapidly shrinking majority, if it's not already a minority of potential DS + WiFi users. At least here in the UK the biggest ISPs now ship pre-configured wireless routers with WPA enabled out-of-the-box. That means DS, DS Lite, and perhaps DSi owners with older games will have to have to reconfigure their router and every one of their computers and other devices to make the DS work. People are not indifferent to having to do stuff like that. Not supporting WPA in the DS has been an epic fail for Nintendo.

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  2. Hello World already running on DSI by richy+freeway · · Score: 3, Informative

    Allegedly someone has already got homebrew running on the DSi, no news on his methods though.

    http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=113637

    1. Re:Hello World already running on DSI by cosmocain · · Score: 2, Funny
      Well, THAT'S great news.

      No, i'm not totally shocked by the fact that the DSi has been hacked. It's more like: Erm, wouldn't you please stop reading the summary at line 1?

      (which, predictably, has already been hacked)

    2. Re:Hello World already running on DSI by Skidge · · Score: 2, Funny

      There are summaries? It's more fun to read the title and then skip to the comments to try to figure out what the hell the original article is about in the first place.

  3. Re:no GBA?! by Goaway · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because they wanted to remove the extra ARM7 processor, probably.

  4. Re:no GBA?! by Goaway · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Update: Here's a photo of the DSi circuit board, with only a single ARM chip on it:

    http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2008/1101/dsi50.jpg

    The ARM7 is definitely gone.

  5. Re:So the question I think everyone wants answered by Bones3D_mac · · Score: 2, Informative

    Last I heard, no. This thing apparently kills off support for at least 10 different types of mod/homebrew carts including the R4 ones.

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  6. Re:So the question I think everyone wants answered by Bones3D_mac · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ok, more specifically, the following carts are purported to have been tested and failed on the DSi:

            * R4DS
            * EZ Flash V
            * CycloDS
            * G6 DS Real
            * M3 DS Real
            * Supercard DS One
            * iTouch DS
            * FCard
            * NCard
            * M3 DS Simply
            * U2DS

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  7. Re:So the question I think everyone wants answered by tietokone-olmi · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Well bother. Where the heck does Nintendo expect device sales to come from now? ... well for the first couple of months the heatseekers will schlorp these up, and after that there'll be a DSi version of the R4 and the like. Oh well.