[DS] Nintendo Announces DSi - What?

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

Here's a quick question for those of you above questioning the lack of a GBA slot: do you own a GBA or GBA SP? Also: do you plan to sell/trade your DS/DS Lite?

Technically I own a GBA, but Tritoch has had it for at least a year. At any rate, I play GBA games on the spur of the moment (often when my DS battery light turns red, but still has juice to play GBA). I'm not going to carry around two gadgets, so if I were to buy a DSi, I doubt I'd touch my GBA games again. It'll depend on what sort of downloadable titles come out as to whether I pick one of these up.

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Nintendo says the DSi will be region-locked for DSi-only software. You can play your imported DS games, but not imported DSi games.

Originally Posted by 1up

As for the region lock, Nintendo explains that the system's new internet features are the reason. "DSi is region locked because DSi embeds net communication functionality within itself and we are intending to provide net services specifically tailored for each region. Also because we are including parental control functionality for Nintendo DSi and each region has its unique age limit."

Not a deal-breaker, since I haven't imported that much over the years, but it's still disappointing.

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There'll probably be games that can only run on the new hardware. Like when the Gameboy Color came out, and there were some games that would run on both old and new, and some GBC-only games.

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