Nintendo DSi Release Date

It’s official! The Nintendo DSi is going to be released on April 5!!!

The official notice has been posted on the Nintendo website and the official Nintendo DSi website is found here.

The price of the Nintedo DSi starts at 169.99 and the available color releases are Blue and Black. It comes with the Nintendo Camera Software, Nintendo Sound and the Nintendo DSi Shop.

Nintedo DSi comes in Black and White

 Upon searching for new technoligies on the interwebz, I stumbled into the upcoming, long awaited (well, in the US anyway because it is already available in Japan in Japanese, duh!) Nintedo DSi.

As you can see from the video, it looks promising and now has the Nintendo Wii feel to it menu-wise. It does come in two colors at the moment: white and black and is only available in Japan in Japanese but I guess the whole world has to wait! Anyway, in further research, I found these mouth-watering specs that will truly keep this portable game device on top.

Pros:

• 3.25 in dual screens (the DS Lite has 3 in)
• Power button has been moved to the left side of the Screen which is also works as the HOME button
• No more volume sliders: they replaced them with buttons so you can’t accidentally hit it while playing
• It finally has an SD Card slot that can take in photos, videos and some of your music. I haven’t checked out if you can play homebrew games throught that but there’s a pretty good chance that someone will hack his way through it.

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• TWO CAMERAS!!! Yeah, you heard me, the Nintendo DSi has two cameras, one facing you and the other one facing the other way
• With the two cameras integrated into the DSi, it also comes with multiple softwares wherein you can warp, colorize, paint and some other ways you can destroy your pictures.
• Although you can’t play MP3 audio files, it does support AAC Files. It also comes with weird music playback softwares where you can warp, edit and listen to music and have fun while doing so.
• New Menu (which has a Wii Menu feel to it)
• You can now “Hotswap” wherein you change the game cartridge by going to the Menu and by not having to turn the entire system off just to play another game.

Cons:

• No more GBA slots (say goodbye to your Guitar Hero attachments!)
• Not an MP3 Player just an AAC Player
• Although  you it does come with a web browser (or you can buy the Opera Browser for ### “DSWare” Points), it’s a pain to use.