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Forums - Nintendo - So, DSi XL is out... anyone got one yet?

Then depends of our needs I guess, I did not need it but my accuracy is better with that screens.
Btw buttons are, in case some people hasn't realised before exactly the same size of the DSi



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Gintoki said:
Got one though I was not hype at all for it, but my girlfriend bought me one; screens are huge and it is comfortable.The perfect home portable console imao

Soon to come, a home console for travel.



Galaki said:
Gintoki said:
Got one though I was not hype at all for it, but my girlfriend bought me one; screens are huge and it is comfortable.The perfect home portable console imao

Soon to come, a home console for travel.

Here you go http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/the-wii-laptop/



Too much work, I need it packaged nicely like every other retail boxes.
Mod doesn't count.



Galaki said:
Too much work, I need it packaged nicely like every other retail boxes.
Mod doesn't count.

yeah guess you have a point.See for yourself there has to be some stuffs already maybe Gamecube is playable in a car



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I do miss the GBA slot. Is there a way to transfer GBA games to an SD card and play it on the DSi or DSi LX. I'm not advocating piracy but I have a decent amount of games I wouldn't be able to play if I "upgraded". I just want to know if it's possible at all to play a GBA game on an SD card on the DSi.



hduser said:
I do miss the GBA slot. Is there a way to transfer GBA games to an SD card and play it on the DSi or DSi LX. I'm not advocating piracy but I have a decent amount of games I wouldn't be able to play if I "upgraded". I just want to know if it's possible at all to play a GBA game on an SD card on the DSi.

I sent you a message, I hope I can help you. This is the only way you can play gba games on the DSi/DSi XL, but it works "fine".



I dont have one but am DEFINATELY getting one.  The store I work for already broke street date on the two new pokemon games.  (started selling them Wendsday night)  Got mine.  Now I just need that BIG touch screen...



mirgro said:

So that's what my answer was to the DSi, absolutely no. But back to my quesiton, if space was the problem, why doesnt the XL have a GBA slot again?

Honestly? Because 99% of DS owners just don't give a crap about GBA games. DS replaced GBA in 2004, six years ago. GBA games are no longer made nor supported, so Nintendo and 3rd party developers can no longer make any money off the system or its games. Why would they support a system and its games when those are no longer profitable to them, and which the majority of consumers likely doesn't even know exists anymore? At some point, they just have to let it go.

Besides, there are hundreds, maybe thousands of games available for DS, and that's more than enough for consumers. The extremely tiny majority of hardcore gamers who still care about and play GBA games will have a GBA or DS/DS Lite to do so anyway, and Nintendo will not waste millions upon millions of Dollars (I'll come to that in a minute) to maybe please a tiny and shrinking minority.

Also, and probably the single most important point is, you have to understand Nintendo is a business. And not just any business, a BIG business. DS is at what, 120 or 130 MILLION sold right now? Let me paint you a picture: Let's say producing and implementing a GBA slot into a DS systems costs $10 (just pulled that out of nowhere, could be any amount). Now let's say Nintendo sells 10 million of those systems (a very small amount, for a system as popular as DS), WITHOUT this GBA slot...

They just made 100 million Dollars.

See what I'm getting at? Nintendo, as a company, will do anything they need to to cut costs, while still striving to offer as best a quality product as possible. Especially in the console/handheld business, and especially in Nintendo's case, when selling tens of millions of systems, even the slightest of small reductions in cost can yield mind-bogglingly immense amounts of money.

Of course, space-wise, they could have included a GBA slot, easily. But they chose not to, because it has become irrelevant. When the DS first launched, it had a GBA slot because nobody knew if DS would be a success, and GBA was still very much alive and kicking. It was a back-up, that also allowed users of the new system to play a large amount of games on it, when the system's own library was still very limited. These days, DS is the new king in town, in fact it's Nintendo's (and soon to be videogaming's) most successful product ever, while GBA and its games have simply faded away.



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I think I'll get one in the U.S. when it comes out, I just wish it could connect to my TV like my PSP.



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