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ndo DSi improvements

The new Nintendo DSi console boasts larger brighter screens than its predecessor and two motion sensing cameras. The new screens are 3.25 inches versus the 3 inch screens of the DS Lite. The audio (mic and speakers) is also improved and with a set of headphones the DSi can double as a personal music player. The GBA slot (used for playing older Game Boy Advance games) has been replaced by a SD card slot for memory expansion. It also has a faster processor and Nintendo have managed to squeeze all of this into a thinner case.

DSiWare and Nintendo points

DSiWare is Nintendo’s online store for DS software where you will be able to download games and applications for your new DSi console. During a keynote presentation by Satoru Iwata at the games developer conference in San Francisco, Bill Trinen demoed a DSiWare game called WarioWare Snapped, a camera based Wario mini-game. In anticipation, Wii Points have been renamed to Nintendo points which can be spent on either Wii or DSi software

The DSi has already sold over 2 million units in Japan and is expected to do just as well in Europe and North America.

DSi stock and preorders

Three years ago the wii-console stock locator site was created to find Wii consoles in stock for people in the UK searching for this hard to find item. As well as tracking stock for other Nintendo products such as Wii Fit, the website also has a stock tracker dedicated to tracking stock for Nintendo DS consoles. These handheld consoles can be particularly hard to find in certain colours, especially at Xmas time. Now with the launch of the new Nintendo DSi console another stock tracker has been setup to help people find stock of this new handheld console from Nintendo.