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England gets DSi earlier and for more money.
stevephoenix | 5:13 AM on 02.19.2009 4 comments




All of the usual sites (game, gamestation amazon etc..) seem to have the DSi up for pre-order now, available April 3rd for £149.99, clearly we're being ripped off.

For those who don't realise how much £149.99 is in dollars it's $215.84, now when you consider that America gets the DSi for $169.99 which is £118.16 we're clearly paying the price for living on an island which refuses to co-operate with the rest of europe. Yet for some reason we get a bumped release date. I suppose it's an extra two days of idiots paying over the odds for it.

Personally I couln't care less about this, i enjoy playing the DS I have and see no need to update to this. i have a phone which can do all the extra new features the DSi offers, and the fact that you can download games means nothing unless i can put my virtual console games which i've already bought on my wii onto here for free, other than that i dislike the wii shop channel and how it works so the less i deal with it the better.

The only thing that does appeal to me is the fact that both screens are now touch screens, which i honestly didnt pick up on until i saw the above picture from GAME UK.

Anyone else going for it?



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Projectexodus's Destructoid Blog
I live in Norway, and we have to pay 240$ for this thing. But hey, at least we Europeans earn more money than Americans, so it kinda evens out a bit. Plus we get it earlier!
Diverse's Destructoid Blog
Where on that image does it say that both screens are touch screens?
Xiofire's Destructoid Blog
Yay, it comes out on my Birthday. :)
Still not going to get it though.
stevephoenix's Destructoid Blog
@diverse, the bastards changed it, as it did say it on the page as well. guess they realised their mistake.


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