Bigger doesn't always mean better...
We have all experienced the mundane phenomenon of fads and trends. One day something is the talk of the town, the next week it isn’t. Apply this to any facet of industry and you have an equation to predict the rise and fall of profit. Take the proverbial trend of thin VS fat.
At the beginning of time, big or fat things were at the top of society, having a larger woman was a sign of wealth. Needless to say nowadays that isn’t the common practice. Electronics were looked at in the very same way. Back before flat screens and slim DVD players, hardware was big and space taking. Having them present in a room brought attention to them. Those who didn’t have it wanted it, and those who had it wanted it bigger. After a while someone, most likely a “have not” created the exact same appliance/electronic made it smaller and its fashion sense caught on. Thus the trend was born.
So why bring this up now in the age of slimmer faster products that are essentially Gods in their own right? Nintendo seems to be at it again testing the market to see what they can entice us into buying this holiday season. With that said though who isn’t?
Nintendo has announced the Nintendo DSi was getting a makeover. Apparently the word makeover essentially means: bigger casing and the addition of more letters to its name. Nintendo soon released a photo depicting said difference…and this said difference is size and two letters. Lets take a look shall we? Go ahead take a look; I’ll give you a moment.
So now the question is…how big is it? Well the rumor mill churned the idea of the screens being at an estimated 4.2’’inches. Apparently this hand held isn’t exactly targeted to the younger members of the fan base. That’s right guys; this is being marketed to the older crowd. Isn’t it obvious that they are implying that older people need bigger screens because they don’t see so well? Whats an insult Nintendo, apologize right now.
All kidding aside though, the screens and the casing aren’t the only things being beefed up: so is the stylus. I mean look at the size of that thing. But like all things Nintendo, when you get one thing you most likely are losing something useful.
If you have been a Nintendo hand held fan you are aware of how easy transferring data from one DS to another DS is…well was. When the shift went from DS to DSi, it rendered Game boy Advance libraries useless. So what can Nintendo take away from us now if we opt for this newer DSi LL? The answer is your previously downloaded content. All those “awesome” (Note the parentheses) Wii Ware titles you’ve bought that are stored on your DSi cannot be transferred to the new one. Well thank you Nintendo for adding more stress to our lives.
At least for the time being this is only being made available over in Japan. However who is to say it won’t make its away around the world? No one.
There is a plus side though; the new DSi LL does offer 3 hours of battery life before having to be rushed to an outlet for a charge. This battery life seems to be parallel to that of the DS Lite. Regardless I don’t know how beneficial that will be to a fan base that Nintendo perceives are half blind.
Labels: DSi, Nintendo, Pandalicious
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