subject: What's So Good In Nintendo Dsi [print this page] The Nintendo DSi wanted to bring in a change to the way games are played, and it did so splendidly with the introduction of the touchscreen interface in the lower half of the dual screens.
The gameplay gets so innovative with this addition, and one can sense that developers relish the challenge of creating a game for the system.
The fact that the touchscreen doubles up for various other tasks, such as the PictoChat, is only icing on top of a delicious pastry. While the stylus and handwriting recognition has lost out to thumb-based touch interfaces now, the DS remains very easy and delightful to operate.
Backwards compatibility - In coming out with a new console, it is easy to ignore what you have done before. Sony made the mistake with the PlayStation 3, as a lot of consumers never upgraded to it because their collection of old PlayStation 2 titles would be rendered obsolete.
Nintendo, thankfully, avoided this mistake with the DS; in fact, it bent over backwards to make sure that the customers could use their old GameBoy cartridges by not only including a slot for it, but throwing in the GameBoy processor for the games that required it.
The latest version of the console, the Nintendo DSi, has phased out this GameBoy slot, but has done so after most of the popular titles have become easily available to play through online downloads or emulators.
Some of the drawbacks are - While the dual screen of the Nintendo DS bought a change in the handheld gaming, they also took out the possibility of the system doubling up as a multimedia playback device.
Initially, it did not act as an MP3 player either; but the new DSi fixed that aspect, and also bought in a camera.
