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| |  | DS Lite & DSI Accessories | Home » » Nintendo DSi Matte - Black | | | | | | | Description: | | Nintendo DSi is a new hand held portable game system for anytime, anywhere fun and more. Enjoy the largest screen size, best audio quality and thinnest design of any system in the Nintendo DS family. Download exclusive games, clocks and calendars via the Nintendo DSi Shop. Take pictures using either an inward or outward facing camera and chose from 11 different lenses to customize your shots. Connect wirelessly to browse the internet, share photos and play with others. Access your music in the AAC format off any standard SD Card. The DSi cannot play GameBoy Advance titles. | | | Features: | |
• Enjoy the largest screen size, best audio quality and thinnest design of any system in the Nintendo DS family
• Download exclusive games, clocks and calendars via the Nintendo DSi Shop
• Take pictures using either an inward or outward facing camera and chose from 11 different lenses to customize your shots
• Connect wirelessly to browse the internet, share photos and play with others
• Access your music in the AAC format off any standard SD Card
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 9.0 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 2.0 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.47 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.9 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.45 pounds | | Release Date:
| April 05, 2009 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 294 reviews |
| | | Game Information: | | | Platform:
| Nintendo DS | | Media:
| CD | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
| | | | Customer Reviews: | |
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 Very goodJul 25, 2010
I bought this as a used product, and it looks great and works great. Thanks so much for the fast shipment.
 got me back into games!Jul 21, 2010
I used to be a really avid gamer, but i started enjoying them less and less and less after the PS2 came out. I got maybe five games for that, and i liked them, but then i began to find my interest seriously waning, especially with the new emphasis on what i consider 'Xbox'-y games (i.e. shooting things and driving cars). So i really had not played much of anything video-game-wise after maybe 2003.
However, i recently had a renewed interest in Pokémon and a few other game series that i knew had been released on the DS, so, after playing around with a friend's DS Lite and another friend's original DS, i decided to buy a DSi. I'm really glad that i did, because i don't think i would have ever progressed past my 2003 mind set if i hadn't.
Not only have i enjoyed several remakes of games i'd already played, like Pokémon SoulSilver and Final Fantasy IV, but i've been surprised by the huge library of original non-remake games out for the DS that i'm actually interested in. This is in contrast to the PSP, which seems technically superior in several ways, but has an incredibly mediocre selection of games. Out of the entire international library there are only maybe three or four PSP games i could ever be bothered to play, whereas with the DS i've literally got dozens queued up for playing as soon as i finish the ones i'm on.
Anyway, regarding the console itself:
PROS
- The touch screen is much nicer than it might seem. I initially thought it was a gimmick, but after using it i've come to appreciate it. It's especially nice when you're feeling lazy, since you can control many games at your own leisure with just one hand.
- The screen quality and brightness is great, and the brightness can be controlled via hardware at any time, unlike on the older releases. The screen is larger than the ones on the DS and DS Lite, which is over-all a good thing (but see below for one down-side).
- Although i don't personally use it, it's nice to know that i have an entire library of downloadable content available through the DSi store thing. It also has a browser that's pretty OK in a bind.
- Sound quality seems good, although i think i liked the DS Lite's might be a little better (?).
- I like the LED indicators on the DSi more than the DS or DS Lite. Not only do they look nice, but they're more informative. You no longer get your battery indicator taken over by the WiFi activity light when you're playing over wireless.
- Battery life is good, although i've heard it's slightly worse than the DS Lite's.
- Non-DSi-exclusive games (which is nearly all of them) have no region locking, so playing imports from any region is super easy.
- Again, the game library is great and if i had to pick one top 'feature' of the DSi it would be this.
CONS
- The DSi has no Slot 2, which means you can NOT play Game Boy Advance games on it. I personally don't have a problem with this, since i didn't like very many GBA games, but it could be a deal-breaker for some.
- It is not as ergonomic as the PSP. It's basically just a box, there are no grips or curves or anything. Also, the button placement is a little weird. I don't have large hands, but even i feel slightly cramped when using it. It's almost like it would be better if the buttons were up where the speaker grilles are. If you do have big hands you might want to get the XL.
- I hate the included stylus. I've always hated all of the DS styluses. They're too short and skinny and the little top thing digs into my hand constantly when i'm using it. I purchased my own third-party PDA styluses instead.
- Although the screen quality is great, and 99% of games look fabulous on the enlarged displays, there are a few minor issues. You can expect occasional jaggedness or slight blurring. One particular thing that i've noticed is that, when playing Pokémon on the original DS, it is very clear when there is only 1 HP remaining on the health bar; however, on the DSi, the little red sliver of HP becomes practically invisible due to the up-scaling. It's mildly irritating.
- Although the layout and responsiveness of the DSi menu system are better than the DS and DS Lite's, aesthetically it looks really horrible. Text is incredibly jagged and ugly and everything just looks really blurry and poorly rendered. I almost can't believe Nintendo even released it like that, it just looks awful.
- Although the DSi supports WPA, for some unfathomable reason they decided to make it so that each individual game has to implement their own wireless security protocol support. In essence this means that although you will see WPA support touted as a feature of the DSi, IT IS COMPLETELY USELESS. You CAN NOT use WPA with 90% of the games released for the DSi, including newer ones like Pokémon HG/SS. WEP was deprecated before the DS was even released, so i find this a little ridiculous.
- Nintendo removed the auto-boot feature (where the console will automatically load whatever game is in the slot when you turn it on). This is a regression from the previous DS systems, presumably done to discourage piracy or something.
- You still can't turn off the annoying health and safety warning.
- The cameras are totally worthless, the photos they take are of even poorer quality than ones from a cheap mobile phone. I've seen exactly one instance of the camera's use that i thought was worthwhile (a Japanese DSiWare game that uses it for head tracking), but otherwise i feel like they're useless and unnecessarily inflate the price of the system.
- Although it's an improvement over the one on the original DS, i still don't like the volume slider. There's not enough control, i constantly feel like it's either too loud or too quiet.
I list more cons here because i assume the negatives are more useful to people, but overall i would really recommend it, it's been a fabulous investment for me despite the handful of problems it has.
Also, to anyone who is worried that it would be a bad idea to purchase a DSi now that the XL -- and eventually the 3DS -- is out, i say don't be. The DSi is still perfectly good and in fact there are several reasons you might want it specifically over the XL (size being the main one; the XL has almost twice the overall dimensions of the DSi, which makes it less portable).
This gift was a big hit!Jul 21, 2010
I was amazed by all the things my granddaughter could do with this game. She especially enjoys taking pictures of people and morphing them into silly pictures.
dsi is the BOMB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Jul 21, 2010
The dsi is the most obsolete handheld gaming system of its time
>very thin makes pocket storage a breeze
>camera makes close images very high quality
>alot of memory space
>recomended for ages 5-100
It was a gift for my grandaughter, and she was thrilled!!!Jul 20, 2010
It was so easy and efficient to order on Amazon and it was cheaper than in the local stores!!!
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