A Bad Rant About the Nintendo DSi
Current flu status: I have a bad case of bleeeegh. It’s an official medical term. Ask your doctorb.
I’ve pointed out some good articles on Kombo.com, so it’s with head-scratching regret that I speak about a mess on Kombo.com. I wholly admit that I’m not very excited about the Nintendo DSi (yet), but I also believe that the reasons I offer are well thought-out, or, at the very least, coherent.
If you’re sick of sane arguments though, have at you.
I was hoping for something from Nintendo that would restore my faith in them as a company who cares about hardcore gamers, instead what I got was yet another toy that was made with preteen girls in mind.
This is intriguing. With so many sites in a stumbling rush to scream about how Nintendo has abandoned the hardcore gamer, at least one was bound to say something completely idiotic.
We’ve seen pictures of the Nintendo DSi. It doesn’t look very different from the DS Lite. It’s a bit slimmer, the screen’s a bit bigger and there’s a hole that you can use to take magic pictures. Or you can stick your finger in it and excite the DSi and yourself.
Yet the article’s author dismisses the DSi as “another toy” that will appeal to “preteen audiences.” In comparison to what? The original DS Phat/DS Lite? There’s a whole lot of DS ownership going on out there and it ain’t just restricted to pre-teens.
Thanks, Nintendo, I can’t wait to fire up the next Nintendogs and take pictures of all my super-hunky crushes.
Because only preteens take pictures with cellphones or mp3 players. Oh, and Nintendogs is awesome–although I haven’t walked Shiro in a few years.
Moving on–oops, I skipped right to the end of the rant. How about that.
I end this angry rant by asking a simple question, why on earth should I give the DSi any of my attention whatsoever? I already have a camera, I can take pictures. I already have an iPod, I can listen to music. I already have a DS, I can play games. In short, the DSi has nothing to offer me, and it has nothing to offer any of you either.
Thank God I have the Internet to tell me what I need and what I don’t need. I was worried I might start thinking about picking up a DSi since I never did get a DS Lite. Or maybe some clever developer will find a useful way to integrate the camera into gameplay. Oh wait, shame on Nintendo for innovating. Next they’ll be coming out with crazy ideas like stylus controls.
(Image copyright Nintendo. Source: CIO Today)
No Sir, I think YOU are being a bit of an idiot here. In the last paragraph you say ‘Thank God I have the Internet to tell me what I need and what I don’t need’. Well, the author of the rant (while being rather over-the-top) is not telling you not to do anything he is expressing his opinion, so I assume you don’t like to hear the opinions of others. You also skirt round the argument and ridicule the author instead. Basically the DSi doesn’t offer anything that we don’t already have, and the new things it does offer us are of worse quality than what is already available. So basically it doesn’t succeed in being a Jack-of-all-trades even as it can’t even perform its new features adequately. Basically, far too much money for no better games (it is a console after all, not a PDA). And thus ends my own little rant, good day to you sir.
Dsi sucks. Just a sorry excuse for imatating the psp. Dsi bad. Period.