I'm actually still using the original DS phat that I bought shortly after it's release. The touch screen got pretty bad a few years back, but I actually bought a replacement touch screen for a few dollars and replaced it myself.

Biggest problem is that it's hard to play on the bus when it's bright outside, which is the main reason I've wanted to buy a Lite. I ended up never buying it after all though.

I don't mind them making new revisions, as long as it doesn't affect support for the older consoles. Although I guess that the DSi might do exactly this… but it doesn't seem like any publishers are going to switch over to DSi-only games any time soon, right?

The PS3 doesn't seem any more unusual than what Sony did with the PS2 in stripping it down over the years, it's just that they redesigned it entirely so much faster.

So, in a way, Nintendo's DSi LL is very much their own “shameless” PSP-3000: not unwanted but inexcusable in that the single new change should have been in the prior model.

On a side note, someone pondered if Nintendo had originally intended to release the DSi LL all along. My guess is probably not, that it was kind of a scraping-the-barrel type effort when the media started attacking it for declining sales this year. SERIOUSLY, I don't get that at all and it ticks me off. How dare the financial industry start attacking Nintendo when it completely turned around its entire market and sales from the Gamecube/N64 eras and sold TONS of hardware? And it managed to perform so well in this terrible economy no less. And yet the second sales begin to drop-which they HAVE to anyway-then all of a sudden there are reports of Nintendo this, Nintendo that. Interesting how all of these 3rd party developer complaints are only surfacing now, for example.

I'm actually still using the original DS phat that I bought shortly after it's release. The touch screen got pretty bad a few years back, but I actually bought a replacement touch screen for a few dollars and replaced it myself.

Biggest problem is that it's hard to play on the bus when it's bright outside, which is the main reason I've wanted to buy a Lite. I ended up never buying it after all though.

I don't mind them making new revisions, as long as it doesn't affect support for the older consoles. Although I guess that the DSi might do exactly this… but it doesn't seem like any publishers are going to switch over to DSi-only games any time soon, right?

The PS3 doesn't seem any more unusual than what Sony did with the PS2 in stripping it down over the years, it's just that they redesigned it entirely so much faster.

So, in a way, Nintendo's DSi LL is very much their own “shameless” PSP-3000: not unwanted but inexcusable in that the single new change should have been in the prior model.

On a side note, someone pondered if Nintendo had originally intended to release the DSi LL all along. My guess is probably not, that it was kind of a scraping-the-barrel type effort when the media started attacking it for declining sales this year. SERIOUSLY, I don't get that at all and it ticks me off. How dare the financial industry start attacking Nintendo when it completely turned around its entire market and sales from the Gamecube/N64 eras and sold TONS of hardware? And it managed to perform so well in this terrible economy no less. And yet the second sales begin to drop-which they HAVE to anyway-then all of a sudden there are reports of Nintendo this, Nintendo that. Interesting how all of these 3rd party developer complaints are only surfacing now, for example.

And yes, I'm aware of the GB issue, but that was actually the “hidden” point: those were spaced out over a decade whereas the DS has been spaced out over a 5 (6) year period with two of the four released coming in the past year. So it's a bit excessive.

portables are the future portables with tv out hd will end consoles DSi – XL is a tester for slightly bigger hand-helds as nintendo's going

HYBRID CONSOLE NEXT -GEN super ds acts as super wii hd wen tv connected

tis comith the god's have told mii

portables are the future portables with tv out hd will end consoles DSi – XL is a tester for slightly bigger hand-helds as nintendo's going

HYBRID CONSOLE NEXT -GEN super ds acts as super wii hd wen tv connected

tis comith the god's have told mii

Well, that's why MS has gained a big point w/ me recently, by fixing my Jpn system in the US right before my 3yr warranty was up (of course, hardware failure shouldn't be there in the first place). To be more accurate, they didn't fix it, they sent me another working Jpn system that looks almost brand new (but it's an older model w/o HDMI same w/ the one I sent in). I was pretty much expecting them to tell me to screw myself and not provide any type of service to a system not from the same region, but was I pleasantly surprised. I hear I was one of the lucky ones too. Before I bought a US 120Gb HDD and the transfer disc was region locked, and MS didn't help me then (I was also lucky someone here sent me an Asian transfer kit for free). If it's any consolation, we are able to d/l from Wiiware or DSiware w/ a non-Jpn credit card from overseas (like Nintendo's throwing us a bone), but we need to have a Jpn DSi or Wii of course… while PS3 and 360's PSN/Live could be accessed as long as you register w/ a Jpn e-mail account, but buying requires us to import PSN tickets or Jpn MS point cards.

Oh, and as for that 1000 DSi points you have? You might as well use it; it won't carry over. In fact, it's locked to that machine. So it's not on your account, it's on THAT DSi. It's the same idiocy that I just described above.

Then I can finally start playing Devil Survivor again!

lol, I think I made myself sound like an old man, I just turned 30 several months ago. But yeah, I can't slouch over a portable for very long at its current screen size. It's okay, I know you didn't mean me specifically since I've just about had it up to my neck w/ the big N's constant updates as well (don't get me going for them region locking the Gamecube memory cards).. but like you said, it ultimately comes down to marketing and money and them butting heads w/ Apple and Sony… but this big screen is long overdue.