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)

The nintendo wii exclusive game, “Wii Play” – which features a collection of nine entertaining & interactive ”minigames” has finally passed the 10,000,000 mark in units sold, since its release 2 years ago in Feburary. Following this acheivment, lets have a little look back at the success of Nintendo Products over the previous year.

The actual Wii consoles sales were up over 70% early last year, with both the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS becoming the top-selling gaming systems of that year.

Its not only the hardware that was doing brilliantly last year either… half of the Top 10 games of last year were nintendo made, including the hugely popular Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii/DS & of course, Wii Play. A total of approx 1.5 million of these games were sold.

Lets hope that Nintendo continue in their creation of brilliant and innovative products, as well as high quality games. The huge sales of seperate Wiimotes suggest that the Wii is fast becoming the social gaming system – in reality & online.

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So… the soon-to-be-released nintendo accessory “Wii Motion Plus” has gotten quite a lot of attention recently. It promises vastly improved gameplay, due to an increased amount of accuracy & recaction time when rendering movement in a 3D space.