Not a lot of demand for DSi?

With all the advertisments and fan talk and midnight launch at some locations, i expected the usual Nintendo sell out at retail. But thats not what happened at my local Best Buy. I walked in to the store at 2:00 in the afternoon and found out from the sales girl that they had sold only ONE DSi since opening. Now thats odd. Could it be Nintendo made a mistake on this one?

I'm picking one up, but I just had to pay another $800 to my school last week. So it can wait.

No ones buying them because they aren't worth it. My DSL works just fine, I don't need gimicky cameras and an SD slow for $170.

No ones buying them because they aren't worth it. My DSL works just fine, I don't need gimicky cameras and an SD slow for $170.

RStar9

Well it does offer quite a bit in hardware advancements, but it's not worth it if you already have a DS Lite. Unless the games they start bringing out for it are worth a purchase alone.

Aint worth the fee if you already got a dsl.

I know that they didn't sell like Nintendo expected in Japan, but Nintendo is banking in a BIG Way for those American Dollars.

I would wait a few weeks before we know if The American audience jumped on the DSi, or is more conservative like the Japanese have been

It's $170 (Half the price of a PS3, almost the same as a 360!), we are in a world wide recession, it lacks GBA BC, and it has no real crucial DSi content for the system.

It will be worth it when exclusivegood games for DSi come up.

The only people going to the midnight launch are those that follow gaming news.

Those that follow gaming news either own a DS or aren't interested.

Most of those that own a DS and follow gaming news aren't interested in the DSi until there's some quality exclusive software.

Very few people cared for a midnight launch.

A majority of the DSi sales will come from random consumers anyway, so a bad midnight launch that random consumers didn't know about doesn't mean the DSi will sell poorly.

In fact, I'm pretty sure it'll sell just fine. (Maybe :P)

if it had gameboy bc i would buy one but too bad

Its not really good value for money tbh,especially if you already have a DSLite.

I suppose Nintendo is banking on those *ahem* "uniformed consumers" for more sales.

There will be but not right out of the gate. Most people already have a DS Lite and will upgrade sooner or later.

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No ones buying them because they aren't worth it. My DSL works just fine, I don't need gimicky cameras and an SD slow for $170.

lundy86_4

Well it does offer quite a bit in hardware advancements, but it's not worth it if you already have a DS Lite. Unless the games they start bringing out for it are worth a purchase alone.

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No ones buying them because they aren't worth it. My DSL works just fine, I don't need gimicky cameras and an SD slow for $170.

dramaybaz

Well it does offer quite a bit in hardware advancements, but it's not worth it if you already have a DS Lite. Unless the games they start bringing out for it are worth a purchase alone.

I'd agree, but if they actually use it, instead of just sticking DSi downloadable titles out, it could bring in a lot more people.

Maybe they all bought DS Lites by accident. Since, y'know, they're pretty much the same thing with the same games.

come christmas time u wont be able to find one

I'm not surprised.I'll probably end up getting one just in case there are DSi exlusives, though.God dang you, Nintendo....

Maybe people is tired of playing for stuff they already own... twice!!

It's too expensive.

Well it seems to be a waste of money if you owned a DSL IMO.

To me, it's like the GBmicro. It's cool and all, but I just don't really see the point.

I was just at Target and they had about 10 in stock. 5 of each color.

From what I know some retailers actually had record high pre-orders on the DSi. More than any other video game related item in history.

Your Best Buy just failed.

You can't base figures/assumptions just because you walked into a store and found a DSi. Sheez! :)

Well it seems to be a waste of money if you owned a DSL IMO.

Wanderer5

It's a waste of money even if you don't own a DS Lite. What reason would a gamer have not to opt for the DS Lite right now if it is £50 cheaper? There is, thus far, not a single exclusive application for the DSi.

i dont know why anyone would want one its the same thing as a dslite...jeezedaveg1

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Well it seems to be a waste of money if you owned a DSL IMO.

Menalque2

It's a waste of money even if you don't own a DS Lite. What reason would a gamer have not to opt for the DS Lite right now if it is £50 cheaper? There is, thus far, not a single exclusive application for the DSi.

your last statement is where your wrong, exclusive applications on DSi: Moving Memo, WarioWare Snapped, Art S(tyle) Aquia (great puzzle game BTW), Brain Age Math Express (good too), Birds and Beans, let alone in the coming weeks Dr. Mario, Mr. Driller DSi, Katamari Puzzle, Mighty Flip Champs, Phantasy Star Zero Mini (well not for a while), Real Soccer 2009

additionally i imagine Nintendo will reveal some DSi enhanced retail games at e3

Well the US is in an economic crisis, and most people have a perfectly fine DS already. ;)

From what I know some retailers actually had record high pre-orders on the DSi. More than any other video game related item in history.

Your Best Buy just failed.

Mr_Nordquist

This is true, articles were around a few weeks ago that it shattered pre-order records for Amazon and Gamestop.

I picked up at noon on Sunday at my local gamestop. When I got there the line was from the counter to the entrance to the store. I decided to give them 15 minutes for the line to go down so I went to target. Returning to the store at 12:15 there were a few people in line and for the time I was in the store (prob. 10 to 15 minutes) a few more people came in. So I would probably say my local store sold 25 give or take a few.

That said, I picked one up by trading in one of my DSlites ($70.00 trade in value). It was a DSlite I picked up at it's launch so several years old. Although it worked perfectly fine I traded it because

1. it had the dreaded hinge crack the lites experianced early on.(I fixed it with exopy myself as Nintendo at the time didn't honor fixing it for free)

2. The battery life wasn't what it used to be.

3. it was a white one so it was starting to show the yellowing on the buttons and pad.

That said, the DSi really is an improvement in just feel alone. I know a lot of people complain that there isn't very much "new" to the DSi, and while that is true to a point, I think the greatest thing about the DSi is not even talked about... Ie it feels better while your playing it... Bigger screen, clicky dpad, better feeling buttons, far better sound, bigger screens, even the actual texture of the machine is superior to the DSlite.

As for the camera and sound recording, while I was pretty convinced they would be worthless they are actually quite fun. In the future I'm looking forward to the online store living up to its potential with some cool applications and games.

Yes for a cash strapped person I can see sticking with DSlite as it's a fine machine, i'm just pointing out that it's easy to overlook the fact that the DSi does have few things going for it both now and in the future.

Until then, well i'm happy having both, although I see myself playing on the DSi far more due to reasons pointed out above.

Interview with the head of Gamestop:VB:

Just as Nintendo has caught up with Wii, they're about to ship Nintendo DSi. Do you see that portable being hard to find?

BM: We've seen some pretty brisk pre-orders on DSi. It's probably double where we were on the original DS, as far as reservation activity, so we're expecting some great things from that. It feels like they're going to have good quantities to support not only the launch but also some replenishment right behind it. A lot of times with these hardware lines, it's the shipments right after launch that are really important. You have to have the product to sustain the momentum after you get it on the shelf, so the customer doesn't just come in and feel like they did initially with the Wii. I think there were customers in the first year that came in and were looking for it, and they kind of turned away because they got tired of walking into the store and always hearing that we didn't have it in stock. I don't anticipate that with the DSI, and I think we're going to have a great launch with that.

Not bad when there is no games yet to really push the system.

With all the advertisments and fan talk and midnight launch at some locations, i expected the usual Nintendo sell out at retail. But thats not what happened at my local Best Buy. I walked in to the store at 2:00 in the afternoon and found out from the sales girl that they had sold only ONE DSi since opening. Now thats odd. Could it be Nintendo made a mistake on this one?

Videodogg

That can't be right. I work at gamestop and we were sold out of DSi's before the end of Friday

Big recession + high price + very similar to DSLite?locopatho

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/dsi-outsells-all-other-hardware-combined

Either the low sales are unique to the USA or there will be many people owned on May's NPD day, because it's flying off the shelves everywhere else.

I can't imagine to many people would want to buy the exact same system more than once. And theres not to much reason here. Bigger screens to be able to see the graphical flaws more clearly? No thanks. A camera? Most people already have digital cameras and camera phones. It supports an audio player but no Mp3s? Smart move Nintendo!! No GBA cart slot? Talk about taking a step backward.

The only good thing about it is that it has a shop channel similar to the wii where you can buy games, but thats only going to be good if developers make good games for it. Sadly even if it's stupid and it doesnt imidiatly take off I'm sure there are gonna be a bunch of people who buy it regardless, so what ever.

additionally i imagine Nintendo will reveal some DSi enhanced retail games at e3

darth-pyschosis

Additionally, I imagine when Nintendo does that (should have done that BEFORE the DSi launched), that the apathy the we see about the DSi will improve. Right now, the sacrifice of taking out a GBA slot to BUY and DL minigames, AT A HIGH PRICE ($170!!!!!!) just isn't worth it for DS and DSLite customers.

200$, big waste of cash and espeacially when you have a DS Lite.

A PSP offers more for the same price.

Yeah, I went to a Meijer a Target and a Best Buy between 1 and 3 PM yesterday and each one had a bunch of DSi's for sale.

But as for my feelings on it, meh. It seems pretty cool, but not cool enough to get me to rush out and buy one right away. This is one of those things that I'll probably end up getting eventually but not any time soon.