Mad Catz announced new peripherals for Nintendo Wii and DS handheld

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Mad Catz Interactive has announced some of the new peripherals for Nintendo Wii and also for the DS handheld. Mad Catz is widely known for providing accessories for gaming consoles. Most of the new announcements of Mad Catz are related to portable gaming devices.

The Wii of the Nintendo is only getting the Wireless SenseBar. This accessory of it will allow the gamer to pre-set a timer for number of hours they have planned to use the connection. It allows them to converse the power and also to be sure that they can access the service always. This new gadget of Mad Catz is usable with both AC power and also with batteries.

On the other hand, the Nintendo DS and the DSi version are becoming a larger array of add ons. Out of the add ons, most of them are specially designed to protect the device which can get damaged as it is used on the go.

The two examples are Suede Game Wallet and the Premium Suede Folio Case, priced at 14.99 and 19.99 dollars, are well designed to allow gamers to carry the handheld abreast of extra stylus peripherals and also game cases.

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New wireless charger for Nintendo DS from Olin

Monday, January 4th, 2010

Recently Olin introduced in Australian market a new charging technology and all Nintendo fans may be happy to hear this news because the first product of Olin will be for the Nintendo DS. Now, with the help of this Olin charger, all Nintendo fans can now charge their device wirelessly.

This new universal wireless power system from Olin is called Qi, which means that the consumers can now simply lay Nintendo DS on a charging pad and within few moments it gets charged by electromagnetic induction.

The product will come with a sleeve and charging pad. The sleeve may also be used to protect the casing for your gaming console. Moreover, the product can be taken anywhere easily.

Installation is very simple of Qi. Only gamers need to plug in the pad and then place the Nintendo DS device into the sleeve. This sleeve is easily placed on the pad.

The Qi product for Nintendo DS Lite will cost only RRP $129.

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The big screen of DS Lite

Friday, January 1st, 2010

From the time of Nintendo DS Lite the idea came for a living room optimized Nintendo DS if we remember properly. In those days the Nintendo was developed to a DS Lite revision that had larger screens. It was never released, but was ready for the production of big screen Nintendo DS Lite. It had screens of 3.8 inch.

This 3.8 inch screen is larger than what we have the standard 3 inch screens on DS Lite. Well, it is on the other hand is smaller than the DSi XL’s 4.2 inch screens.

The Nintendo DS Lite will be flying away from stores and the big screen DS Lite of Nintendo never entered into production. But it is sure that the unreleased piece of hardware for the DS Lite became the base for Nintendo DSi XL.

Yes, much ahead of announcing this new one as the Nintendo DSi LL in the Japan market and as DSI XL in the North America market, the company tossed around other names. Shigeru Miyamoto liked the name Nintendo DSi Deka. This name is Nintendo DSi Large in English.

However, other members of the team suggested to name it as DSi Comfort, DSi Executive, DSi Premium, and DSi Living.

Even Nintendo thought of using the name of DSi XL globally before settling on the name as DSi LL for the Japan market.

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