Reggie Fils-Aime, president and CEO of Nintendo of America, has said that the US won't get the recently-announced DSi until, "Well into calendar year 2009."
Continuing strong sales of the DS Lite were cited as the reason for the delay. On the upside, Reggie said that more Wiis will be shipped to the US over the Christmas period than last year.
The DSi is set to launch on November 1st in Japan, while SPOnG has been told that the device will be released in "Spring 2009" in Europe.
The revelation that American gamers will have a wait on their hands for the new hardware came from the Nintendo Media Summit held in the US, where a couple of other interesting snippets emerged.
Cammie Dunaway, executive vice president for Nintendo of America's sales and marketing, revealed that Club Nintendo, the company's loyalty scheme, is heading to the US.
She also announced the Wii Speak Channel, a dedicated service for the Wii Speak peripheral. Wii Speak, if you haven't come across it before and can't guess from its name, will offer online voice chat for the Wii for folk in up to four different locations or, as the old folks might call it, a four-way conference call.
It also emerged that the first couple of titles to land on DSware, the new online software store for the DSi, will be the two Brain Training titles, "re-tooled" for the new service.
The new SD card features, that will enable gamers to download WiiWare and Virtual Console titles directly to external storage, were also given another mention.
Source: Joystiq
Continuing strong sales of the DS Lite were cited as the reason for the delay. On the upside, Reggie said that more Wiis will be shipped to the US over the Christmas period than last year.
The DSi is set to launch on November 1st in Japan, while SPOnG has been told that the device will be released in "Spring 2009" in Europe.
The revelation that American gamers will have a wait on their hands for the new hardware came from the Nintendo Media Summit held in the US, where a couple of other interesting snippets emerged.
Cammie Dunaway, executive vice president for Nintendo of America's sales and marketing, revealed that Club Nintendo, the company's loyalty scheme, is heading to the US.
She also announced the Wii Speak Channel, a dedicated service for the Wii Speak peripheral. Wii Speak, if you haven't come across it before and can't guess from its name, will offer online voice chat for the Wii for folk in up to four different locations or, as the old folks might call it, a four-way conference call.
It also emerged that the first couple of titles to land on DSware, the new online software store for the DSi, will be the two Brain Training titles, "re-tooled" for the new service.
The new SD card features, that will enable gamers to download WiiWare and Virtual Console titles directly to external storage, were also given another mention.
Source: Joystiq
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YenRug 3 Oct 2008 13:19
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Wii Speak, if you haven't come across it before and can't guess from its name, will offer online voice chat for the Wii for up to four people in a virtual room or, as the old folks might call it, a four-way conference call.
Not quite right, it will link up to four "rooms" because the mic is used speakerphone style so anyone within range can talk to it. As to how many people you have in a room using it will depend upon the location and how much sense you want it to make at the other end.
Spinface 3 Oct 2008 14:45
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YenRug wrote:
Wii Speak, if you haven't come across it before and can't guess from its name, will offer online voice chat for the Wii for up to four people in a virtual room or, as the old folks might call it, a four-way conference call.
Not quite right, it will link up to four "rooms" because the mic is used speakerphone style so anyone within range can talk to it. As to how many people you have in a room using it will depend upon the location and how much sense you want it to make at the other end.
Cheers YenRug. What we actually meant was "for people in up to four locations in a virtual room". Four being the number of Wii's that can be linked into a conversation, "virtual room" being the rather abstract location of the online conversation a la a chat room. Looking back over it, that wasn't clear so I've tidied it up a bit in the copy.
Thanks for the spot!
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headcasephil 3 Oct 2008 17:49
3/4
i do not care if it dose not come out well in to next year as i will be buying from play-asia so hope to have one by December well i hope any way
jj 3 Oct 2008 23:14
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That's okay we can all import one, unlike Sony, Nintendo don't sue their exporters or go against the free market when it suits them.