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I saw it in a newspaper a few minutes before seeing this article. This might actually change my mind on whether or not I get a DSi. This and the camera photos. High five!

i have mine preordered got a black dsi on its way woop

Congrats Webbstar! Now, will it be delivered to you on launch day or sooner or do you have to pick it up? Details!

just gotta pick it up on the day
had to put a £20 deposit down for it and when i collect it trade in my old ds lite and hand over £50 and its mine

Oh, so you're in the UK? That means you took advantage of GAME's trade-in program? Shhhhweeet! Just out of curiosity, what color is your ds lite? And I wonder what they'll do with all those used systems they'll get (cough...sell them!...cough)

yea i took advantage of their offer yea uk
my ds lite is white
yea they will prolly sell em not much else they can do with them really
are the dsi region locked do you know ?

I'm not sure... Ed? You're the one previewing the DSi, is it region locked?

DSiWare titles and (presumably) DSi-exclusive retail titles are region locked. Nintendo DS titles are not region locked.

lets hope not i got a few imported games that i still play

As for region locking on DS card games - I think all systems will still play most games (obviously guitar hero, etc will not), just like the DS/DS lite. So no region locking on DS Card games.

I have a Japanese DSi now, and it plays all my normal games and my American and Norwegian DS lites both play Rhythm Tengoku, the Japanese version. Also my Norwegian DS lite plays all of my American games. But in case that was confusing, my Japanese DSi plays my American games fine.

With regard to the DS Store, if I had points, I could download DSware to my Japanese DSi, but I'm looking at the Japanese DSi store from a Japanese DSi. I believe the American and European DSi's will see their respective stores. I'm not sure the point cards will work in other countries stores, though. so like, if you have a European DSi, and buy American or Japanese Nintendo Points cards in the future, they may be invalid on the European DS Store. So I'm not sure I'll be able to easily add points to the Japanese DSi - because i think i need to register it, and add Japanese points.

When the DSi comes out in the US I will periodically check the Japanese store vs. the American store to see the differences - I assume there will be many, just like the Wii, and assume the same for the European store.

i think i get ya ! another question lol so i guess nintendo are making the wii points card for wii and ds points ? so lets say i add points on the wii will i be able to spend em on my dsi (asuming i have it all on the same nintendo account) ?

no, here's how it works:

You buy a new Nintendo Points card.
You can use it for the DS Store or the Wii Shop Channel, which I think is going to be renamed Wii Store.
You apply that whole card to one store or the other and those points can't be used in the other store.
Nintendo Points cards become either DS Store Points or Wii Shop Channel Points.

Not too unreasonable.

I know the logistics implicated in such function would be quite troublesome for Nintendo, but I think the points should be applied to ONE ACCOUNT; whether those points are used either at the Wii store or the DSi should be up to you, and you shouldn't be forced to deposit all of your points in a specific store IMHO.

kinda sucks then mean i would have to buy to sperate point cards to use on each console :/

And you live in a 'mainstream' country! Us, poor latams, don't even find Point Cards that easily!

oh yea lol they are really easy to get hold off here just really exspensive dont get alot for your money