Should I get a Nintendo DSi?

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#1 SBF9304
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What color should I get? Black looks more cooler but someone said the scratches show up more.

Someone said it's region encoded, is this true?

How good is the Internet? Does YouTube work?

Someone claims you can download games, are they any good games or just stuff like tictactoe?

How good is the camera on it?

Some says it plays MP3, can you upload music to it?

How much space do you get (like hard drive space)?

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#2 NintendoG33k
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go check the dsi sticky on the front page. i think it will answer most of your questions

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What color should I get? Black looks more cooler but someone said the scratches show up more. - Doesn't matter. Both are good. I have black, and it doesn't scratch at all.

Someone said it's region encoded, is this true? - Yes. Only with future games. Games out (from other regions) already will work. Also, DSi Ware is region protected.

How good is the Internet? Does YouTube work? - The Opera Browser is great. No Youtube.

Someone claims you can download games, are they any good games or just stuff like tictactoe? - List here. Most are bad, as of now. Some are really great.

How good is the camera on it? - It's really underrated. The pictures come out great. It makes phone cameras look like crap, that's for sure. The editting on it is nice.

Some says it plays MP3, can you upload music to it? - Who told you that?... It plays AAC (MPEG4) Files which are better than MP3's. It does not play MP3's.

How much space do you get (like hard drive space)? - It has enough... I don't have numbers, but I have like 70 pictures, and 6 DSi Ware games, and it's not filled.

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Yeah, use the sticky, but I'll answer anyway.

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#4 Kiki250
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What color should I get? Black looks more cooler but someone said the scratches show up more.

Someone said it's region encoded, is this true?

How good is the Internet? Does YouTube work?

Someone claims you can download games, are they any good games or just stuff like tictactoe?

How good is the camera on it?

Some says it plays MP3, can you upload music to it?

How much space do you get (like hard drive space)?

SBF9304

I can answer a few of those questions....

I didn't get black, I chose the aqua blue, the black did look like scratches would show up more but if you take extremely good care of it, nothing should go wrong

I can't help you with the Region part, don't understand it

The internet is awesome, but Youtube doesnt work, you can get on youtube, but videos cannot be watched

Yes, you can download games, and they aren't like tic-tac-toe they're more advanced games

The camera is decent, it can switch from inside view to outside view and it has pretty good picture

It does play MP3, but you have to store the music into an SD card, then it can play on your DSi

And i'm not sure about the hardrive space

Hope my information helps, the DSi is definitely worth buying! =D

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"It makes phone cameras look like crap, that's for sure"

LOL, seriously I love my DSi but the camera is not good, nowhere near as good as most cell phone cameras

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#6 Kiki250
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"It makes phone cameras look like crap, that's for sure"

LOL, seriously I love my DSi but the camera is not good, nowhere near as good as most celphone cameras

Eric_Drav3n

The picture is OK, but my cell phone camera does get better picture, still, the DSi is awesome!

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What color should I get? Black looks more cooler but someone said the scratches show up more.

Kinda, but most scratches come off. You'll be fine with which ever color you get.

Someone said it's region encoded, is this true?

You can't access the DSi Shop from other countries or access other countries' content. US DSi= US DSi Ware only.

How good is the Internet? Does YouTube work?

It's a pretty goodmobile browser. No, youtube doesn't work, nor is there a chance of itworking in the future.

Someone claims you can download games, are they any good games or just stuff like tictactoe?

There's small gamesas well asfullgame being released.

How good is the camera on it?

It's a'ight. It's nice for messing around with and it will be used in a few games. User motion sensing, Augmented Reality, and Photo textures being a few uses.

Some says it plays MP3, can you upload music to it?

You can only use AAC, a superior format that should have killed MP3 years ago.

How much space do you get (like hard drive space)?

It's flash storage, and you get 256MB, more than enough considering DS games are pretty small.

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"It makes phone cameras look like crap, that's for sure"

LOL, seriously I love my DSi but the camera is not good, nowhere near as good as most cell phone cameras

Eric_Drav3n

What kind of phone are you using?

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I have a Nokia 6220c, 5 megapixels
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#10 SBF9304
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Thanks everyone. My only main concern was the region encoding because I can't wait for cool games like Tunguska, Puritas Cordis, Undercover, Sinking Island to come out in the USA so I buy them from the UK. But that's interesting that only future encoded games won't work.

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What color should I get? Black looks more cooler but someone said the scratches show up more.

Someone said it's region encoded, is this true?

How good is the Internet? Does YouTube work?

Someone claims you can download games, are they any good games or just stuff like tictactoe?

How good is the camera on it?

Some says it plays MP3, can you upload music to it?

How much space do you get (like hard drive space)?

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Whatever you'd like.

Only for DSi-only and DSIWare games.

Depends on your wi-fi. Videos do not work yet, so no.

Yup. Japan's got some pretty good ones, but NA is still waiting for some.

I love the camera. It's not as good as say, professional, but it's very good.

If you have an SD Card and convert to MP3s to AAC.

Don't remember but it doesn't matter if you have an SD card.