Nintendo DSi XL to be released in March

Monday, January 18th, 2010

Nintendo is planning to release the next version of the portable console DSi XL in the first week of March at Europe. DSi XL has large screens each measuring about 4.2 inches. Its screen resolution is 256×192 pixels and the computing power of the console remains the same.

The console weighs about 314 and also has large plastic stylus for easy handling. The battery is charged upto 50 percent which gives optimal level of brightness as well as increases the duration upto 8 hours. The device is sold in many attractive colors and comes with a title of DSiWare Dr. Kawashima’s Gehirn-Jogging Art-Version.

Additional feature of the console is that it is provided with a digital dictionary and web browser. The other two versions of DSi XL are still in market. DSi XL will cost around 180 -200 in the store. Game lovers are waiting for the release of this wonderful gaming console.

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Region lock in Nintendo; It really works

Sunday, September 27th, 2009

The Nintendo DSi-capable cartridges are region locked. This was announced by the company almost a year before.

The Nintendo DS cartridges that features DSi-enhanced camera functionality released in the US market works well on a system in US and it boots very fine but the same when brought to a Japanese system, the icons of the game does not appears in the menu. Thus it prevents from playing on that system.

Well, this lock-out is not applicable to playing on standard DS or DS Lite systems because they don’t have the same specific territory firmware as of the DSi units.

Remember this properly that this DSi lock-out is not only limited to the DSi Shop and DSiWare downloads.

Nintendo announced last year about it and then it mentioned that the reason behind doping this is because of the cartridge lock-out is due to the specific internet connectivity of the system and also the incorporated parental controls.

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