Nintendo DSi LITE – NDSi

The Nintendo DS, much like the PlayStation Portable, is a system vexed by piracy. The DSi XL has some protection against copied games, but it’s still a problem for Nintendo. It seems, however, that the 3DS has some nifty new technologies to make sure that gamers come by their software legally. “The problem with the DS market in the last few years, particularly with the DS Lite, is that it’s just …

Excerpt from:
Nintendo 3DS packs extra weapons against piracy

It’s been well documented that rampant piracy is a huge wound to the handheld gaming market — in fact, a report just last month revealed handheld piracy cost the industry over $41 billion in the last five years. But according to THQ, Nintendo is confident the new anti-piracy technology they’re introducing into the 3DS will make a significant impact in this significant problem. “What excites me …

Visit link:
THQ Confident in Nintendo’s Anti-Piracy Tech for 3DS

[Gamasutra looks at the evolving handheld space as part of its NPD analysis, revealing that Nintendo DS software outsold PSP software by an 8-to-1 ratio in the U.S. in March 2010 -- and muses on Nintendo's motivations for launching a fourth simultaneously sold handheld.] Since our last report, Nintendo has announced that it will launch a successor to the Nintendo DS, currently called the …

Read the original:
Analysis: DS Games Outselling PSP 8 To 1 In U.S.

Since our last report, Nintendo has announced that it will launch a successor to the Nintendo DS, currently called the Nintendo 3DS, before the end of its current fiscal year (ending March 2011). The new device will incorporate a screen technology that allows 3D effects with the naked eye and will be backward compatible with the existing Nintendo DS and Nintendo DSi. Should that device come to …

Read more:
Analysis: The Great Handheld Battle Of 2010

Since Nintendo first asserted sole domination over the handheld gaming market with the release of the paperback-sized Game Boy in 1989, the company has striven time and again to make its pocket systems smaller, meeting fantastic financial success along the way. Nintendo did it with the Game Boy Pocket , the Advance SP , the Micro , the DS Lite and again ever so slightly with the DSi — the last …

View original post here:
Nintendo DSi XL review

Nintendo announced its lineup for the first half of 2010 at a press event in San Francisco today, finally sharing release dates for new products revealed over the last year.

See original here:
Nintendo reveals 2010 plans: Big DS March 28, new Mario and a mini Kindle (Seattle Times)