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Antabus on 11 January 2011
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Viper1 said:
Antabus said:

Yeah, I don't get why DS and DSi are counted as one. Isn't DSi with a better(twice?) processor and more(8 times?) ram?

How it is with wii and gamecube? Twice as powerful processor and twice as much ram?


The DS series has 2 CPU's.  The DSi and DSi XL have 1 of the CPU's clocked twice that of the same CPU on the DS and DS Lite.  But it's only accessible to DSiWare downloadable titles.  All retail titles reduce the clock rate back to the DS and DS Lite speed.

RAM is similar.  The DS and DS Lite have 4 MB's and the DSi and DSi XL have 16 MB's.  But the extra RAM is not accessible to retail titles.  Only the system operating system and DSiWare downloadable titles.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_DSi

There it says that DSi has 2 cpus? Where did you see that it has only one cpu?

So... If DS can't run all the DSi titles and DSi has 2 times better processor and 4 times more memory, why is it considered the same?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DSiWare_games_and_applications