• 2Oct 08

  Oh really Nintendo?

  New DS model announced, labeled 'DSI' link (please read beforehand).

  Whoah, a web browser, music and image players, two cameras and an SD slot all in this new DS model. For real? Ya, it seems so, Nintendo just did the worst turn of their handheld history.

  Let's back up a bit, throughout Nintendo's handheld history, it's been great, you got your sturdy little box and you put a another smaller box in and you turn it on, portable gaming awesomeness is go. Simple and idiot-proof, no bells attached, just you and the game, the way it should be.

  Adding all these superfluous and unnessecary abilities into the DSI is just the wrong way to go. Firstly, let me use the competition as an example (not trying to start any system wars thing here). Sony's PSP can do lots of stuff; play movies, music, show images and play games, hell it even has Skype and web browsing support among other things. Too bad it doesn't do any of that stuff well, I won't go into the details, but Im sure you know about the nuisances of using the PSP. The DSI will just go down that same path, with every new funcitonality and ability it will come with a compromise that sacrifices something.

  Secondly, we don't need this bilge. Most people already have some other electronic device that serves as a music player, and probably even doubles as something else. Majority of phones can access the world wide web and anyone without a camera phone today is just pathetic (looks at his camera-less phone...damn). Tell me, are you going to whip out your DSI to show your friends photos or just use your phone? Are you going to play music using SD cards on the DSI or just use your .mp3 player? Are you going to take out the DSI to find the nearest pizza place online or just use your phones browser?

  As a bane of many multimedia devices, the DSI suffers by not including them all. Yes you could surf the web and find that pizza place, use it to show photos and play music, but you'll still need to carry your phone and you'll want to bring your music player along as those SD cards will just be an annoyance, right? Also who even carries SD cards around with them? Hell, the only thing I use SD cards for is digital cameras.

  Oh sure all that new stuff may at to the gameplay. The internal camera I'm betting won't be very good and it seems like a gimmick as a gameplay element. Yes bigger screens and a slimmer shape overall are great, but those are expected of new designs, well not the bigger screen, but screen quality is. One of the worst things is the lose of the GBA slot. I don't know about you, but any new console/handheld had better be able to play the last generations console/handhelds games or it's just total bollucks.

  Really what it boils down to is that all these new things in the DSI are bringing the platform away from what it should be, and that's a handheld gaming platform. I play the DS, for games, not to surf the web or do other stuff. I thought the PSP's somewhat lackluster sales would show that gaming platforms as a multimedia device don't work out. I'm well aware that this could (key word: could) be a success, but in my eyes it's just not happening.

  The most surprising thing is that this is a Nintendo handheld, if Microsoft announced this I wouldn't bat a crusty eye at it. Like I said earlier, Nintendo has had amazing success in the handheld gaming market by focusing on games and games only. The DSI is breaking this tradition and I for one will not support it as I want Kirby Canvas Curse 2 rather than a internet browser and an SD cart slot.

  • Posted Oct 2, 2008 4:12 pm GMT
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• 22Sep 08

  You haven't done this in a while.

  

  Got it.

  Unfortunately, I didn't get the special retail packaging with my purchase of Megaman 9:

  

  ^ So awesome.

  But I did download it off WiiWare, having it digitally is fine by me, as long I have it. Guys and gals, Capcom was either going to port RE4 to the N-gage (not true actually) or make Megaman 9, I'm glad they did the latter. Enjoy it; you all are buying it afterall right? RIGHT?

  • Posted Sep 22, 2008 5:00 pm GMT
  • Category: Cars
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• 20Sep 08

  hurm.

  New review is up, you know what to do.

  link

  (opens up in new window/tab)

  • Posted Sep 20, 2008 8:01 pm GMT
  • Category: Movies
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