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Nintendo Sold 1.5 Million Wii and DS Systems During Black Friday Week

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 04:38:28 +0000

Nintendo has sold 1.5 million Wii and DS video game systems during Black Friday week. Of this number, about 600,000 Wii consoles were sold and 900,000 DS units were sold between November 21st and the 27th. The Wii bundle costs $199 with a Wii Remote Plus and 2 games. The DSi XL sold with 3 games for $179. The DSi with only one game sold for $149. Nintendo of America president said that the Nintendo sold around 9,000 systems every hour during Thanksgiving week. [VentureBeat]

Nintendo DSi Going Green and Orange Just In Time For Black Friday

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 01:42:22 +0000

Nintendo has announced that there are two new DSi colors. Now you can buy a jello green or pumpkin orange Nintendo DSi. These new colored DSis come with a copy of Mario Party DS at an MSRP of $150. [Joystiq]

Thanksgiving Console Rush: Nintendo Sells 500K Wiis, 1 Million DS/DSIs; Sony Sells 440K PS3s

Amit Chowdhry — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:34:35 +0000

Sony and Nintendo have both released the numbers of their console sales over the Thanksgiving weekend and they are big! The Sony PlayStation 3 sold 440,000 units in the U.S. for the week ending November 29th. Nintendo announced that they sold over 1 million DS and DSi handheld console units. And the Nintendo Wii sold over 500,000 units for the week ending November 28th. Microsoft’s statement was that they sold twice as many 360 consoles during Thanksgiving week compared to the week before.

Nintendo DSi Getting Some New Color Options In Europe On October 23

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:25:46 +0000

Nintendo is getting ready to launch the DSi in 3 new colors in Europe. The new colors are red, blue, and turquoise. In the U.S., Nintendo launched the DSi in pink and white earlier this month. Facebook photo uploading will come preloaded with the new colored devices. The devices will also have the Flipnote Studio application.

Black Wiimote On Its Way To USA, But No Signs Of Black Wii

Amit Chowdhry — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:01:31 +0000

In Japan, Nintendo has released a black Wii but Americans were not given the same option. However Nintendo is willing to meet us halfway by allowing us to have white Wiis have black Wiimotes. The black Wiimotes and nunchucks will be available this holiday season. Nintendo will also have a pink and white DSi added to the line-up on September 13.

Facebook Photo Uploading Added To Nintendo DSi

Amit Chowdhry — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:30:32 +0000

Facebook photo upload support has been added to the Nintendo DSi. The feature was actually added on August 3rd. The feature was added after a system update. Facebook integration was added in the camera/photo gallery module. Your Facebook account can be set up by selecting the icon next to the Star, Shamrock, and Heart.

Tapping the Facebook icon causes a pop-up to appear. There is a Facebook login page that appears in the pop-up. Once you enter the information the first time, it remains auto-filled after that. After selecting a photo, you confirm that you want to upload it. After uploading the photo, it appears in an album called “Photos from Nintendo DSi” on Facebook.

[via ZDNet]

Nintendo DSi Camera Gets A Zoom Lens

Amit Chowdhry — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:06:06 +0000

The Nintendo DSi has a built in digital camera, but the resolution isn’t that great and there isn’t much of a zoom either. The digital camera is 0.3 megapixels. Nyko invented a solution to enhance the zoom camera on the DSi. Nyko’s Zoom Case is a plastic cover that slips over the DSi. An 8X-optical-zoom lens is screwed to the camera. After attaching the external lens, the camera can take 640×460 pixel images. Although there is no final price announced for the Zoom Case, it is rumored that the cost is between $20 and $40.

[via PCW]

ColorWare Gives DSi Wild Paint Job

Amit Chowdhry — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 17:54:28 +0000

ColorWare is a company that takes game consoles and dazzles them up with wild custom paint jobs. Above is one of ColorWare’s latest creations: a DSi painted in all sorts strange color combinations. The price of the above model is $374. Another option is to send in your own DSi and have it colored your own favorite colors for $174.

[via Engadget]

Colorful Nintendo Summer: Black Wii and Red DSi On The Way

Amit Chowdhry — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:02:21 +0000

If you’re bored of the generic colors that the Wii and the DSi comes in, Nintendo is getting ready to provide additional options. More specifically, there will be a black-colored Wii and a red-colored DSi shipping from Japan soon.

The black Wii is code-named KURO Wii and it has been a rumor for about two years. The black Wii will cost about ¥25,000 ($255) and the red DSi will cost ¥18,900 ($192). The two new colors for the consoles will be available in Japan on August 1st.

The black Wii will have similar colored Wiimotes, nunchucks, and classic controllers. Availability in the U.S. is still yet to be determined.

[via Engadget]

Sean Kenney Builds Human Sized Nintendo DSi Out Of Legos

Amit Chowdhry — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:19:39 +0000

On Sunday the Nintendo DSi officially arrived on U.S. soil and it hit the European markets on the Friday before that. How did it do in the U.K. on the opening weekend? It made a killing. It became the fourth fastest-selling console in U.K. history after the PS3, Wii, and PSP. This is not bad for being a follow-up console.

In celebration of the DSi launching in the U.S., Nintendo hired Sean Kenney to build a large Lego sculpture of the console complete with stylus slot and power connector. The Nintendo DSi Lego sculpture is taller than the size of an average human.

If you live or plan to visit New York City, you can see the DSi on display at the Nintendo World Store at Rockefeller Center.

[via CNET]