Nintendo DSi

Nintendo will be releasing a new Nintendo DS. One that includes cameras (no clue why they're needed), SD card slot, NO backward compatability and bigger screens.



Reading about it on Wikipedia (which has everything correct on any subject in the world) left me saying I won't buy it. I think I'm done with Nintendo. The isles at Target are divvied up like this: on the Wii wall more than half the wall is accessories, not games. On the 360 wall more than half is games not accessories. I didn't buy a system to keep buying additions and toys and accessories. That's a waste of my money and not a clever way to cover up the fact that the games are boring or frustrating. Yes, the Wii can tell you're moving the wiimote BUT accuracy is WAY off.

The way I look at it, the only way that Nintendo can release this and convince me to even think of buying it is this: With the SD card slot offer every single game boy/gameboy advance game as a downloadable program from the internet (accessed by home computer). If I can pay five bucks for any GB/GBA game and store them on the SD card basically making the DS a portable emulator, then that might be worth it since SO many great game boy games cannot be found anywhere.

This is the only way I'd ever consider it. I don't feel any draw to any current DS games and think their utilization of the touch screen feels forced and it makes gameplay awkward.

Boo.