Has anyone heard of any way to pre-order the DSi in Canada? Amazon.com has it, but won't ship to Canada apparently, but Amazon.ca says it's unavailable. Does this mean Canada will have a later release date? (I really hope not!)
Just found out Future Shop has started pre-orders. So if there are any other Canadians out there wanting to pre-order a DSi http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pr...ngid=EN&sku_id=0665000FS10121166&catid=22018#
$200 CDN is the most expensive launch price I've ever seen for a Nintendo handheld. That is going to effect their success. In my opinion, I think the DS Lite is still going to go strong. Kids are Nintendo's main demographic and how many parents are going to buy their kids a DSi for $200 when they already own a DS Lite? Especially not in this economy. I know Wii is $280 CDN but that is a home gaming console and has its own line of exclusive games. DSi is a handheld and is more of a DS1.5 instead of a DS2. Aside from the small DSiware games and apps they have online, there's no real reason to upgrade. It's multimedia capabilities are primitive and worse than what you get from a flash cart. Its primitive 3 MP camera is not much of an incentive either. I think Nintendo will quickly abandon DSi for a DS2 in a year or so. Nintendo is making a mistake trying to branch away from the gaming-only market into multimedia when Sony's PSP offers a superior multimedia experience to the DSi.
I don't know, the DS Lite is still going for $140 new most places. While the improvements are minor, I think there are enough of them to warrant dropping the extra 60 bucks. I guess maybe it's not worth it to upgrade if you've already got one, but my touch screen isn't a touch screen anymore, which pretty much makes most of my games useless. Considering it leaves the PSP in it's dust, I think it's worth the $200.
