Comments on: Video Review of the Nintendo DSi – Is it worth the upgrade?

By: the moulin rouge costume

the moulin rouge costume — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:17:54 +0000

The big problem with the DS is that it has to be backwards compatible and a huge part of the market is people who own the “DS” or the “DS Lite”. The features for the DSi must be compelling enough to upgrade – the question is are they?

The best point is that the DSi can use WPA which is a more secure wireless algorithm but legacy programs (i.e. hundreds of titles) are not automatically enhanced to this protocol.

So for old games you still can not run the DSi over a network in a secure manner – bit of a shame as I would think adding a protocol converter from WEP to WAP is not impossible – it’s really just a bit of hardware and software.

Of course what Nintendo really wants you to do is buy a new unit and new games – all over again!

By: Mobile Depot

Mobile Depot — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:28:25 +0000

You have an informative write-up my buddy. Keep up churning out useful article like this. Cheers!

By: Holly

Holly — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:48:44 +0000

Lol Dwayne, I think the DS Lite would like to have a word with you. I don’t think anyone really cares about the camera, I sure don’t. DSi is already more successful than previous models.

I noticed the review mentions the RAM upgrade but not the Processors? I don’t see the point of mentioning some hardware instead of all or none.

By: George

George — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 21:21:55 +0000

Thanks for the information.

Just about to tweet this story.

By: Dwayne Black

Dwayne Black — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 05:28:08 +0000

I still believe this will be a massive flop! Just like the eyetoy (for playstation) just another gimick that will get old! There is only so much you can do with a camera to before it gets boring.