• 16Oct 08

  The DSi

  First things first, this is my first post, so I'll keep it short. to anyone saying that the DSi is going to be no good, I think it will be good:

  1. No GBA slot. I think that Nintendo will have Game Boy/Color, and GBA games for DL anyways, so GBA slot is needless. if you say, 'then how will we play Guitar Hero?' since the DS came out in November of 2004, Guitar Hero is the only game that really needs the GBA slot. there are many DS games that can unlock stuff if you have a certain GBA game inserted, but GH is the only game I can think of that actually uses the GBA slot. Metroid Prime Pinball uses rumble, but no other games that I can think of uses rumble.

  2. The screen is only 17% bigger. my question is why make a screen bigger if the games will still have the same resolution? take any picture and stretch it 17% bigger. the pic will look bad. so there is obviously another reason as to why the screen in bigger:

  The DS uses 2 separate 3-inch TFT LCD, resolution of 256v x 192h pixels, dimensions of 62 x 46 mm and 77 mm diagonal, and a dot pitch of 0.24 mm. The gap between the screens is approximately 21 mm, equivalent to about 92 "hidden" lines. The Super Nintendo Entertainment System has 256 width x 224 height dots.

  Take the DS height and multiply it by 17%, and you'll get 224.64. my theory is that the DSi will finally be a portable GB/c, GBA, NES, and SNES, since that Nintendo stated that there will be some downloadable content for the SD card slot.

  If this is all true, Nintendo has definitely sold one of these to me

  • Posted Oct 16, 2008 4:09 am PT
  • Category: Editorial
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