Last week’s big news was the official announcement from Nintendo that they would be releasing a new DS on November 1. The Nintendo DSi will be thinner, have bigger screens, 2 built-in cameras, MP3 player, web browser, and an SD card slot. More signifcantly though, is the DS Store that will launch with the DSi. You will now be able to download games directly to your DS via a WiFI connection using Nintendo points and save it via the SD card slot or increased on-board memory.
Nintendo says that the DSi will not be a replacement for the DS Lite but rather as a separate platform. This would mean that you can expect a lot of DSi-only games that will take advantage of its camera and card slots this coming holiday season.
On the other hand, you may be more excited about rumors of the successor to the highly-successful Wii. Dubbed Wii HD (although that may not be its final name) will feature HD-capability and a beefed up “next-gen” graphics processor while maintaining backward-compatibility with the current Wii. And with Nintendo’s increasing their R&D spending by three times since the launch of Wii, we can hope to see whatever Nintendo has in store in a 2 short years (Unless they spent $370 million dollars for developing the DSi, which I doubt).
For the rest of you preferring to look at the present for now, I leave you with a lineup of games coming to the Wii this fall. And they’re looking pretty amazing.
