Nintendo DSi LL in the Flesh
What does a DSi LL look like compared to a DSi? How about a Nintendo CEO? Plus, take the yen to gram challenge!
Posted Oct 30, 2009 at 10:15, By Anoop Gantayat
You've seen Nintendo's DSi LL renders and studio pics. You might have even seen Inside Games' hideous self-made DSi LL unit.
Now see what the heaviest current generation portable gaming system looks like in the flesh. A television station covered Nintendo's financial briefing yesterday where Nintendo prez Satoru Iwata most definitely did not label the Wii a failure. At the conference, Nintendo had a DSi LL unit set up for display beside the older DS units. It looked a little something like this:
Now here are a couple of pics showing what DSi LL looks like in comparison to a Nintendo CEO.
The DSi LL has a much larger screen compared to the standard DSi, but does not offer increased resolution. While this shouldn't come as a surprise, it appears that there's been some concern that games will look super pixelated on the LL.
You can see our first DSi LL gameplay footage in this clip of a news program that covered the financial briefing earlier today.
In other DSi LL news, a 2channel poster posted some weight comparisons for all the various portable systems out there. My Game Flash passed along the information.
The LL does appear to be the heaviest current generation portable. But, with exception to the original DS fat, it has the best yen to gram ratio:
- 158g PSPgo ¥169.6
- 189g PSP-2000 ¥104.8
- 189g PSP-3000 ¥88.9
- 214g DSi ¥88.3
- 218g DS Lite ¥77.1
- 275g DS ¥54.5
- 280g PSP-1000 ¥70.7
- 314g DSi LL ¥63.7
If you're looking for the most gram for your yen, definitely don't buy PSP go!
In still other DSi LL news, today's Nikkei has a short article covering the financial briefing. According to the paper, Iwata took the LL in hand and said that he wanted his and his wife's parents to use the new system. Just in case you were wondering if Nintendo really is targeting an older audience here.
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ToxinVictus @ 2009.10.30, 11:38
lol, I knew Nintendo would try to shut up about the DS Phat! So much for the one feature that the DSi LL is being released for. Though, of course, people need to be reminded about these things.
As for what it's really about, I think piracy is their real concern–much like the PSP Go. They should be able to stop it for about a month, I give.
anoop @ 2009.10.30, 11:40
Hmm... they haven't mentioned any additional security prevention measures yet. This is something that will hopefully come up in the Q&A session from the financial briefing, which Nintendo usually puts up in the days following the briefing.
yowvapa @ 2009.10.30, 14:38
While Sony and Microsoft targets the limited young male demographics, Nintendo targets everyone, includes the elderly. The DSi LL may be the first handheld gaming system to target older audiences. It is larger than most of us thought of.