They have developed another Nintendo DS Bundle to play with and are releasing it in the US in time for Mothers Day which is on the 3rd of May. The new Nintendo DS Bundle will be lime green and contain Personal Trainer:Cooking.
This could be the ideal gift if you mum is a handheld gamer and loves to cook. Or it might be an excuss for you to get your hands on one. Either way this is another Nintendo DS Bundle we can add to the score sheet.
Just a bit more proof of my ebay getting a nintendo ds cheap strategy working..
My three year old daughter has been pestering my young son to play peppa pig and a few other games on his DS Lite. With this becoming more frequent, I decided to once again use my ebay strategy to get another DS cheap. This time it only took 2 days to get my bargain…
Followed the tried and tested weekday and combined it with the times 4-6pm.. and viola I got a DS for £26 and this was a fully working one and not one of the faulty ones on ebay
I’ve now received it and my daughter is now playing peppa pig on he own pink ds…
We all know with christmas comming up, nintendo have been heavily promoting the new range of Ds colours that were released during the summer. I must admit that some of the new colours are pretty cool but is this the final push of the Nintendo lite ds bundle before the release of the much rumoured nintendo Lite DSi console in europe and america in the spring of 2009? Or has the market already been too saturated?
WHo knows? But the big questions I would like to ask is ‘How many of the current DS Lite and DS users will upgrade to the new console?’ and ‘What will the new handheld dsi unit offer them that the current unit does not?
The new DSi will have the following specifications:
- Increased screen size (up from 3.0 to 3.25 inches) - Dual touch screens - Improved resolution (640 x 480) - Dual 3 megapixel Camera Built in ( pictures can be merged together and distorted etc) - Thinner overall unit size (depth is reduced from 21.5 to 18.9mm) - On-board storage - SD Card slot to give full capability for the new features and storage - GBA Slot has been removed - Ability to play MP3 file - 12% lighter in weight - Built in browser with the ability to purchase and download games online
Now that sounds pretty cool, but will my 6 year old son need this when he wants to pay mario karts with his friends, have a game of super mario bros or sonic and mario at the olympics? I don’t think so and neither will any of his friends or more to the point their parents. Ands will I need any of these new and improved features to play one of the more integectual games such as ‘boggle’, ‘scrabble’ or ‘brain training’? again I would say no and to be honest I cannot see the point of many of these additional functions when the main audience in reality are under 12. A build in browser may me cool but it’s not something I want my 6 year son using without my supervision and what about the good old virus crowd? I doubt that before long the credit cards used to purchase game will be hacked as has happened with most of the major players already in those markets.
I can see this as maybe another sony type mistake in assuming that all the current DS users will upgrade to the new unit. It is still not clear on whether the current games will work with the new consoles or the new DSi games will be compatible with the current nintendo lite ds stock that is available. One feature that is built in however is that of region locked compatibility. What does this mean? it means that if you have a european locked console then games purchased from japan or other non-europe regions will not work on the new DSi console.
The console will be released in japan on the 1st of november and will have a price tag of JPY 18,900 (GBP 101, USD 179, EUR 129)
FurdLog » Video Games and the Record Industry – If that’s true, the music industry – another purveyor of digital goods – could not have been very happy when bloggers last week began sharing screen grabs from a popular new Nintendo game, which includes, among its many characters, a guitar-toting puppy who seems to extol the virtues of file-sharing. Those industry fat cats try to put a price on my music, but it wants to be free, the canine bard says in a dialogue bubble at the bottom of the screen, after performing and giving away copies of a tune. Slider, an insouciant inhabitant of the sprawling universe that is Animal Crossing: Wild World, a deeply layered community-building game released two weeks ago for the Nintendo DS, the hand-held gaming console introduced last year.
FurdLog » More on Nintendo Music Performers – Seim heard two Nevada Union High School classmates play a set of Nintendo cover songs at a talent show in 1999, he felt he had found his true calling. He joined the band on drums and began his career as a video-game-song cover artist. His video-rock band, the Advantage, consists of high school buddies (minus the original two members, who moved to Milwaukee).
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Video Game Bonanza! – Although I’m not a huge advocate of video games, I must confess that I had too much fun this weekend playing with Guitar Hero on PS2 and the new Nintendo Wii system. In an effort to cater to a larger audience (maybe this’ll attract more …
Jake’s Weblog Nintendo Wii – I had previously posted that my wife and I were looking for a Nintendo Wii (actually, it’s supposed to simply be branded Wii w/out the Ninentdo in front). We ended up getting one last week (3-Jan), but I never did get around to posting that update. Laura had been calling around to pretty much every [.
