More DSi Info

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Since we officially know the Nintendo DSi is heading to the North American shores on April 5, 2009, we have started seeing more information pop up like crazy.

Gamepro’s “Five Coolest Features” of the DSi:

  1. Music
  2. Photos
  3. Downloads
  4. Storage
  5. Design

For explanations on each of these, head over to Gamepro.

MTV’s 30 Minutes with the DSi

  • The DSi is a bit friendlier to multi-tasking DS-users.
  • The new firmware features draggable icons that represent various saved applications.
  • The system can support up to 18 [recorded audio] clips, each of a 10 second duration.
  • The DSi also supports playback of music files off of the SD card and will play these songs back even if you close the system, as long as headphones are plugged in.
  • The DSi camera software is also going to be a winner for five-year-old nieces. But it has more potential for the rest of us — if you are entertained by making funny images with the DSi cameras and the lower screen as your viewscreen and editing page. The image software hosts at least a half-dozen applications.
  • I asked one of the Nintendo people if the new screen size was going to affect the relative size of the gap between the two screens and hurt the gameplay of games that spread the playe’rs actions across two screens as if they’re one big screen, like “Yoshi Touch and Go.” If the screens are bigger, shouldn’t the game be expected to calculate that the gap between the screens as being bigger? I was told that that shouldn’t be a problem. Nevertheless, that’s something worth watching for.
  • Two possible games available for DSiWare will be Decode and Wario Ware: Snapped.

For more information, visit MTV Multiplayer.

DSi Accessories are already popping up.

Other Random Info

  • The FREE DSiWare titles “Moving Notepad” and “Opera [Internet] Browser” will be available for download.

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