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Hello, I am Mark but you can call me Steve Phoenix as that is what I go by pretty much everywhere. I generally play games on the seXbox 360, i'm a little bit of a fanboy, I also have a Wii but generally I can't be arsed playing it as it's mostly just full of games like imagine:babies and horse riding, although i did buy House of the Dead Overkill and that's very good fun. I now own a PSTRIPLE as yet i am still waiting for games to arrive, Little Big Planet and MGS4 are the first on the list.

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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 Avatar - Comment posted on 02/19/2009 07:55
Projectexodus
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 Avatar - Comment posted on 02/19/2009 08:59
Diverse
Where on that image does it say that both screens are touch screens?
Xiofire's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/19/2009 09:55
Xiofire
Yay, it comes out on my Birthday. :)
Still not going to get it though.
stevephoenix's Avatar - Comment posted on 02/19/2009 16:54
stevephoenix
@diverse, the bastards changed it, as it did say it on the page as well. guess they realised their mistake.
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