Nintendo reveals six DSiWare launch titles

Author: Joe Martin
Published: 3rd April 2009
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Nintendo reveals six DSiWare launch titles

Nintendo has detailed the first six titles it will have available in the American and European DSi Store.

Nintendo has finally confirmed that it will have six titles available for the DSi Store initially, with further updates and new releases to follow in the future. The DSi handheld platform is an upgraded version of the original DS and DS Lite and goes on sale across Europe today, while America will get it in a few days. Japan has had the console since last November.

The new DSi comes with some extra features over the DS Lite, such as new firmware, two cameras, an SD card slot and an online store - but you can find more details on the console in our DSi review.

At launch the DSi will have just six titles available for American and European players, though it will come with 1000 Nintendo Points in the box, worth about $10 USD or £6 GBP. Just as with the Nintendo Wii, players can use their credit cards to buy more points directly from Nintendo if they run out.

Nintendo will also be offering the DSi Internet Browser, which was originally a retail product and which is based on Opera, as a free download for everyone with a DSi.

The remaining releases include WarioWare: Snapped, Brain Age Express: Math, Bird and Beans, Master of Illusion Express: Funny Face and Art Style: Aquia. Most of them are the usual selection of brain training and camera-orientated mini-games, while Acquia is an underwater puzzle game.

“The concept of entertainment is clearly expanding to enable self-expression and creation in ways never before possible,” sais Nintendo of America's Sales and Marketing EVP Cammie Dunaway in a press statement.

“Nintendo DSi is loaded with software to help people do exactly that. It’s not just about the cameras or audio playback, but what people can do with these features that makes Nintendo DSi such an enjoyable game system.”

Are you planning to pick up a DSi, or are you happy with the your DS Lite or PSP? Let us know in the forums.
Quote itazura 3rd April 2009, 11:17
i'm gonna stick with a ds lite, although i like the inclusion of 1000 points with the console.

just a shame it's £50 too much, heh.
Quote Denis_iii 3rd April 2009, 12:20
way overpriced IMO
Quote steveo_mcg 3rd April 2009, 12:25
DS might get cheap now though, just in time for my long distance flights.
Quote kenco_uk 3rd April 2009, 13:58
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Brain Age Express: Math

Maths, surely?

Unless it's not being released in the UK.

/pedantic
Quote delriogw 3rd April 2009, 15:46
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Originally Posted by kenco_uk
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Brain Age Express: Math

Maths, surely?

Unless it's not being released in the UK.

/pedantic

it'll be an international title, hence it therefore has to have the american term or they might explode through having to think too much
Quote wafflesomd 3rd April 2009, 17:07
They'll lose a lot of money by making the store available only to dsi owners.
Quote docodine 4th April 2009, 07:09
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Originally Posted by delriogw
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Originally Posted by kenco_uk
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Brain Age Express: Math

Maths, surely?

Unless it's not being released in the UK.

/pedantic

it'll be an international title, hence it therefore has to have the american term or they might explode through having to think too much

Mathematics - ematics = Math

:-|
Quote Golygus 4th April 2009, 15:57
I'd like one just for the WPA/WA2 ness. But its not worth upgrading from my lite, especially as the cost.

British born and bred, but I'd still take the term math over maths any day.
Quote Omnituens 5th April 2009, 23:22
Sticking with my DSlite, I like my GBA slot thanks

*rocks out on guitar hero*
Quote Ending Credits 6th April 2009, 10:08
All it boils down to is the camera. DS lite is superior in every other way.
Quote kenco_uk 6th April 2009, 10:15
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Originally Posted by docodine
Mathematics - ematics = Math

:-|

Mathematics - ematic = Maths.

:-/
Quote benjamyn 6th April 2009, 13:46
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Originally Posted by wafflesomd
They'll lose a lot of money by making the store available only to dsi owners.

Nope because lots (millions) of gullible fools will happily sink £150 into a DSi, chances are Nintendo are making more than 50% profit on it anyway given how old the tech is now.

The saddest part about the DSi for me is that it will delay the next generation Nintendo handheld by a couple years :(

Dsi is stupidly high priced though, about the same as an xbox 360 premium FFS!!
Quote themax 7th April 2009, 16:34
Just like Gamegear. Nintendo let someone else do all the leg work in advancing the handheld tech (Aside from the touch screen which wasn't dont yet on the handheld) , then they swoop in and everyone raves about added features to the device that we're already done before. I don't buy it. Outside of the camera, the PSP was already a multimedia device, with a browser and downloadable content but everyone will happily put down the money on a brand new DSi to get the same features they snubbed the PSP for and in the past snubbed the Gamegear. (colored display and backlit screen when Ninty was still pushing the black and white 8 bit graphics well into the PSone Era).

And I'll stick with my DS Lite. I need my GBA Slot. You can't take away my River City Ransom. NEVER.
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