TWRoO on 01 September 2009
Ok... conclusion time.
Consoles, being placed static in the home, can easily be given add-on peripherals for specific games.
Handhelds do not have that luxury in all cases, so seperate models are sometimes needed to refresh interest in the platform.
A platform is only of a new generation if it is intended to be so.... Nintendo WILL release another handheld eventually which has the purpose of being a seperate system. It may be able to play DS games as a backward compatible function, but it will be primarily for new games.
If the DSi were a new generation, different from the DS/DSlite, then we would already have had dozens of exclusive retail games for it.
