true, but the price of the iphone is roughly the same under some contracts. I'm having a hard time thinking that the dsi is better than it.
especially when you look at the price of the software..
I think the ds name will carry it through most of the sales. That and if that other poster was right about them discontinuing production, then dsi will be bought.

I myself am pissed about the battery life. It's really bad.

"really bad"? Come on now. Can you honestly tell me you are going to be inconvenienced by going from 19 hours battery life to 15 hours? Or whatever the number is, it's still plenty. I remember a time I accidentally left mine on in sleep mode and left it at work over the weekend. Then on Monday I played it some more, and took it home. Battery was still going.

Besides, isn't part of the reduced life (at highest brightness settings) becasue the brightness simply has a higher upper limit?

actually in some cases you get about half the battery power.
that 19-15 is if you run each without any of the perks they come with, lighting, sound and so forth.
Realistically you are looking at 10 hours compared to 15
at the highest brightness you get only 3-4 hours of life on the dsi, compared to 7-8 on the dslite.

I don't know about how much brighter it is. Could be the larger screens or smaller battery.

Btw, sleep mode lasts forever, you can get a few days out of it in sleep mode, thats nothing new.
http://www.slashgear.com/nintendo-dsi-battery-life-drops-up-to-50-from-ds-lite-0218027/

lol imagine that statement in second halof of 2008 - what kind of games would they mention? psp is getting finaly some games and recognition from western developers and Sony is already spining it to show psp as a ds? i love my psp thanks to japanese games but seriously, good luck with that.
and this year =/= diversity at all. psp is getting just 2 rhytm games,4-5 action games and as always for psp gazilions jrpgs/srpgs and racers(and i'm not talking about good ones but every title) then look at DS that is getting every year few good games from every possible genre and almost every subgenre(if you count every title then you get hundreds of games every year) - it's really hard to call psp lineup a deversity.

^what's funny is that this statement was made in the last half of 2008. Wired went back about 6 months for this.

Where are you getting that they had the sound off in those tests?  And I play in darker areas a significant amount of the time where I really want the brightness as low as it can go. 

It's probably more like 4-6 vs. 5-8 (taking out the extra brightness setting on DSi) with an added option of MOAR POWER to the lights.

finally big outlets stand up for the ds..
my fav system
(=

you cant beat the amount of games it has
..

nope

@Final fan
did you not check the link? It seems like you did, but I don't think everyone will be on the sub 10 hours.

I for one, like everything full blast. I'm just one of those people, but that doesn't mean I'm alone in that preference.

Also, I just assume they had sound off because otherwise they wouldn't have said what the maximum gameplay time was. That wouldn't make sense to me.

But isn't it kind of unfair -- even silly -- to complain about battery life being shorter due to an optional extra, higher brightness setting?

it may seem so to you, who plays in dark areas for some reason lol.

Needless to say, you will at least be losing 25% battery time, even if you don't use any extra settings. I would be losing somewhere close to 50% battery life.
I think that is a more than just a silly complaint.