Recession? Hardly! While people try and make thriftiness a fashion statement (because you can't do anything in the West without it being "trendy"), it seems that people always have money to spare for Nintendo, throwing away their DS Lites in droves to make the DSi one of the most successful machines in town.
In the UK, the DSi has become the fourth best-selling console of all time, outselling all other currently available systems combined and shifting 92,000 systems in just two days. Apparently, a little camera and the ability to make MP3s sound all 8-Bit is exactly what Brits wanted, and now all their dreams have come true.
I'm yet to upgrade myself, but may do in the near future just for fun. I've heard conflicting statements, however, as to how worth it the upgrade truly is. What do the Destructoid community say about swapping out the Lite for an i? Can 92,000 people be wrong?
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10:00 AM on 04.07.2009
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Make an awesome gadget - shunned and avoided, seen as geeky.
Make an average gadget, make it pink / pretty - they buy it in droves.
Hmmmmmmmm. I've seen no marketing, no adverts, nothing, how do the non internet gaming trolls even know about it? Let alone have decided to buy so many!
I want you to check and see how many people voted for bush in 2000 and ask yourself that question again.
(Sarcasm aside)eh no I really don't see a reason to upgrade from a ds lite to a ds I.
The platform is ripe for homebrew, so I'm going to hold off until someone makes a properly compatible R4/Flashcart.
I'm probably going to be proven wrong in the future and the DSi will probably have some awesome killer app at some point, but I'm not holding my breath.
-My Lite, a launch model, it beat up, dirty, and has a semi-busted hinge
-I don't own a digital camera. Yes, this one is shit, but it'll suffice
-I stopped playing GBA games years ago what with there being 7 ways to play them
-DSiWare
-Early birthday gift to myself
That said, I'm falling more and more in love with it as I play it. The buttons are the best out of any handheld I've used (in my opinion). They're clicky like the original DS, but still have the right shape like on the Lite, so everything feels really right. The built in features are a lot of fun to play with, and I'm confident DSiWare will pick up some serious steam, what with the DS having a far greater install base than the Wii.
I can understand why people are holding off. It's certainly justified (though I do still think the "no GBA" argument is kinda silly...), but I think the DSi is a really solid upgrade and will probably become the norm at some point later on once DSi-exclusive stuff becomes more and more common.
Overall, I'm very happy with the purchase.
I bought one yesterday after trading in a ton of games that I don't play, and IMHO, I feel the DSi is a worthy successor to the DS Lite. It feels sturdier, the screens are noticeably bigger and brighter, the speakers are so much better, the buttons don't stick out as high, and you're able to hot-swap game carts when you're at the DSi menu.
If you really are steamed about the DSi not having a GBA port, don't buy it. But I already have a GBA to play those games, and I still have my link cables so I can play them in multiplayer anyway.
DS lite here I come.
There are too many DS and PSP models for that matter but i'm still on my first (fat) psp or at least i was till the power switch broke last week (just when games i wanted actually came out) but i'll probably hold off till E3 for news of the fabled psp2 to decided whether to upgrade to a 3000 or just buy an old 1000.
It's true the cube was pretty much a flop but that's before Nintendo became the hot thing among the populace and gaming (or atleast playing the wii) became cool. Now anything with the Nintendo name on it sells regardless of its worthiness.
there is nothing innovative about the dsi. you nintendo fans really just can't seem to ever get enough. replacing a perfectly working ds fat with a ds lite with a dsi is the dumbest thing i've ever heard. do something useful and give that money to charity or something. i can't wait to hear you all clamor to buy a new version of the wii that can finally do hi-def.
Goddommot I hate my DS phat. It barely fits in my pockets and overall it's just god awful. What was I thinking in 2004?
When I get the money I don't see why not.
Cameras? I couldn't give a flying f***, decent buttons? Hells yes.
And yeah, huge populations can be wrong sometimes (not necessarily here, I might add). US presidential elections, 2000. :)
I do hope Nintendo gets this under control.
however, nintendo's core market nowadays has tons of money to spend on 4 versions of nintendogs, 3 versions of pokemon, 2 cooking mamas, and a brand new dsi.
This just feels like Nintendo slapping the DS on life-support far too early. It feels like an expansion, like the Sega CD. I'll certainly consider it when Nintendo makes a real upgrade to the hardware.
I honestly don't get it.
Though, i was tempted by the HMV deal to trade in a DS Lite and get DSi for 75pounds.
Legit firmware? On a launch PSP? Spartan this is madness!