I recently purchased a brand new, Nintendo DSi in London. It was a part-purchase, part-exchange, as I payed about £20 as well as giving in my old DS lite.

My first impression, when I got it out of the box was… “urghh”. I though (and still do actually) that it looks ugly. I can’t put it plainer than that. Of course, you should never judge a book by its cover… but when its a games console/gadget that costs upwards of £120, I’d expect it to like nice. The look of my old DS Lite was beautiful in my eyes and I don’t know why they couldn’t have left it like that.

However… upon opening up the beastie-looking thing, I discovered that its true beauty lay on the inside! The menu system has changed to be more “Wii-like”, with a row of boxes containg all the options, as well as empty ones for possible game downloads from the new online store. You can now enter in and out of games/settings without having to restart the DSi… which is nice too!

All in all, I adore the new DSi, the online feature is constantly updating and the features such as the camera & sound/picture editor just enhance it further! DSi FTW in my book, but a prettier outer shell wouldn’t be a bad thing Nintendo (Hint, hint)