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stanley2011 on 06 October 2008
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.jayderyu said:
NintendoMan said:

Pro's:

- Built in web browser

- Camera's

- SD Card Slot/DLC

- Better Speakers

- Bigger Screens

- Thinner

- Onboard flash memory

Con's

1   - No GBA Slot

2   - Camera's with laughable resolutions

3   - Reduced battery life

4    - Only plays ACC files (note to nintendo - apple does not rule the music world, there are more people with mp3's than ACC's)

5    - DS/DSLite owners not getting DSWare is disapointing, espcially if you do not want to/cannot upgrade to DSi

6    - DSWare is region-locked (understandable but annoying as Nintendo's handhelds have always been region free and europe/australia will likley get screwed over in terms of releases)

Possible Con:

7     - Web browser is from opera (my expireince with opera includes wii and previous ds browsers and desktop browser, i was left dissapointed and running back to FF with all 3)

 

Your thoughts?

 

 1. The needed demographic is small. Yes there are lots of people that still use it, but they still have the machine to use it.  The DSi is to slow phase out this archaic BC.

 

2. The DSi is not meant to take high qaulity imagery. The resolution is fine for casual pictures. What a lot of people forget though is that a Mega Pixel is Width x Height x colour bit depth and factor in the contrast ration. The external camera could reasonably take some really nice pictures depending on depth and contrast.

3. People were gloating the DS Phat life battery over the PSP. With the increase to the screen size and extra battery consumption power of the speakers, SD Card slot... it not unreasonable. If the battery life still beats the PSP why are we still complaining? sorry for brining the PSP into this.

4. umm yeah, this sucks. AAC? wtf? MP3 is the standard? question though does it cost a licsence to commercialy play MP3? This could be a reason why a lot fo small music players play MP4 isntead. We know Nintendo likes to minamize cost.

5. This is not a con. We might as well ask why the PS2 and GC can't have PSN or WiiWare.

6. This is a pretty standard con across the board everywhere. Does the 360 and PS3/2 have it too? This is a non factor in todays expecting society. Instead if it wasn't region blocked would be a pro.

7. Fire Fox while an awesome browser that I use on my PC. Is in fact a memory and CPU hogs. FF is incapable of running on minimal design and lesser systems. You shouldn't expect a browser only coded for medium end(500mhz,512mb) PC qaulity. Opera is a pretty darn good PC browser and it's kernel is extremly small,efficient and ready to be ported. They are the only good option for smaller devices. Safari doesn't count considering the iTouch/Pod as a 500mhz+ and good amount of memory.

The browser is not a con. It's a pure pro. It could come without it and appeal to less of the distant market. With the DSi having built in flash memory and a SD card slot. It could run better than the current Opera DS with it's limited 8mb expansion.

 

Anyways I really like it. I will get it. The time it takes will depend on how soon software it will have to replace my PDA.

 

 

^^^that.