p style="text-align: center;"img alt="DSi - Image 1" title="DSi - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/124655/dsi-banner.png?393399" style="cursor: pointer;" align=""br/pbra href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/sony/880" id="tag" title="Father of PlayStation"Sony/a brand manager for the PSP, a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/john-koller/6926" id="tag" title=""John Koller/a, recently spoke his mind about Nintendo's new DS upgrade: the DSi.brbrGizmodo was able to ask Koller about his reaction to the DSi, and as it turns out, he does have some positive remarks (but at the same time still somehow manages to take a potshot at the DS' "12 and under" demographic). Here's the full quote:brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"Nintendo has kind of a history of these [moderate] kinds of updates, and even with DS Lite, there was a lot of discussion, "Is that enough?" And they seemed to do pretty well there./pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"br/pp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"I can see the DSi being successful. The DS lite was obviously very successful. Will DSi do well with [the DS's] demographic? It probably will. Will it be a product that expands their user base [beyond] under 12? I'm not sure./pbrWhile no one can argue with that (well, it's span style="font-style: italic;"his opinion/span, anyways - everyone's entitled to their own), it's interesting to hear him talk of "moderate kinds of updates" in the DS lifespan. Can anyone dare say the same thing of the PSP? Anyone? None? After all, when the a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/psp-3000/15703" id="tag" title="third model of the PSP"PSP-3000/a was announced, I heard comments that went something like "brighter screen, microphone, that's it?!"brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related articles:/spanbrulli style="font-style: italic;"a title="Iwata: DSi not after iPhone and PSP marketshare" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/Iwata-DSi-not-after-iPhone-and-PSP-marketshare/pg/49/aid/124643"Iwata: DSi not after iPhone and PSP marketshare/abr/lili style="font-style: italic;"a title="Nintendo DSi hardware specs, software details: bigger screen, shorter batt life, more" href="http://ds.qj.net/Nintendo-DSi-hardware-specs-software-details-bigger-screen-shorter-batt-life-more/pg/49/aid/124571"Nintendo DSi hardware specs, software details: bigger screen, shorter batt life, more/a/lili style="font-style: italic;"a title="PSP-3000 battery life shorter; PSP Slim to cease production" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/PSP-3000-battery-life-shorter-PSP-Slim-to-cease-production/pg/49/aid/123493"PSP-3000 battery life shorter; PSP Slim to cease production/a/lilia style="font-style: italic;" title="Leipzig: PSP-3000 officially announced Update details, bundles for North America" href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/Leipzig-PSP-3000-officially-announced-Update-details-bundles-for-North-America/pg/49/aid/123266"Leipzig: PSP-3000 officially announced Update details, bundles for North America/abr/li/ulbrbr pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/QJ/PSP?a=q8XJdO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/QJ/PSP?i=q8XJdO" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=emQpM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?i=emQpM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=MwxyM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?i=MwxyM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=pTacM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?i=pTacM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/QJ/PSP/~4/413975466" height="1" width="1"/

Chacun chez soi... et les poulpes seront bien gardés. p quot;Une DSi pour chaque chaque membre de la famillequot; C'est la belle histoire que nous contait Satoru Iwata lors de la conférence qui dévoilà au monde entier la nouvelle version de la DS. Mais ce qu'il avait oublié de dire, c'est qu'elle serait zonée, comme le projet d'une vraie fausse-ouve... /p

Satoru Iwata: the Nintendo DSi is not going after the iPhone - duh! Nintendo's president was apparently asked during an interview (Nikkei - subscription link) and had to reply to the obvious: the DSi is not an iPhone killer. Sure, the device can download applications that aren't gaming related. It can also browse the web but that's far -very far- from making it an iPhone-killer (did someone notice that it's not a phone?). Anyhow, the move to downloadable games is most likely a good one for Nintendo, as it will streamline the distribution, bypass stores and generate additional revenues to the company - a model not unlike iTunes. Other than that, it's hard to see why the iPhone even popped in the conversation. Edge, via crunchgear

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a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/124643/satoru-iwata_qjgenth.jpg?094376" rel="lightbox[article124643]" title="Satoru 20Iwata 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/124643/satoru-iwata.jpg 3F094376 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 3px;" alt="Satoru Iwata - Image 1" title="Satoru Iwata - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/124643/satoru-iwata_qjgenth.jpg?094376" align="right" border="0"/aAnyone who's seen the new DSi handheld from Nintendo might have thought at one point that its features are oddly similar to Apple's a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/iphone/6780" id="tag" title="the new Apple phone"iPhone/a and a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/sony/880" id="tag" title="Father of PlayStation"Sony/a's PSP. Camera: check. Music Playback: check. Online Capability: check. You may think it, but you're thinking wrong.brbrNintendo president a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/satoru-iwata/451" id="tag" title="Nintendo President"Satoru Iwata/a says clearly enough that it's not an iPhone/PSP wannabe, because it's not after these marketshares in the first place. According to him, brbrp style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px;"We wanted to have the device on them at all times. By downloading subway maps and other things, for instance, the DSi can be useful for applications other than playing games./pbrIt's all about making it fit naturally into people's everyday lives. Apart from that, he also said that the online functionality available on the DSi will allow users to "customize" their experience with the handheld.brbrThe DSi is coming to a href="http://pspupdates.qj.net/tags/japan/109" id="tag" title="island country in East Asia; capital city Tokyo"Japan/a first thing next month, November 1, and will also see a Western launch, though not till "well into 2009."brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Nintendo DSi articles:br/spanullia href="http://www.qj.net/Nintendo-Japan-Conference-Nintendo-DSi-unveiled/pg/49/aid/124551"span title="unveiled here" style="font-style: italic;"Nintendo Japan Conference: Nintendo DSi unveiled/span/a/lilispan title="unveiled here" style="font-style: italic;"a title="see specs here" href="http://www.qj.net/Nintendo-DSi-hardware-specs-software-details-bigger-screen-shorter-batt-life-more/pg/49/aid/124571"Nintendo DSi hardware specs, software details: bigger screen, shorter batt life, more/a/span/lilispan title="unveiled here" style="font-style: italic;"a title="more goodies from Ninty" href="http://www.qj.net/Nintendo-DSi-won-t-arrive-in-North-America-until-next-year-more-DS-and-Wii-for-holidays/pg/49/aid/124561"Nintendo DSi won't arrive in North America until next year; more DS and Wii for holidays/abr/span/li/ulbrbr pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/QJ/PSP?a=2IviBb"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/QJ/PSP?i=2IviBb" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=ncGAM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?i=ncGAM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=NMNnM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?i=NMNnM" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?a=9xdgM"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/QJ/PSP?i=9xdgM" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/QJ/PSP/~4/413339551" height="1" width="1"/

La DSi, nouvelle version de la console portable de Nintendo, n'a eu de cesse d'être comparée avec l'iPhone et l'iPod touch depuis sa présentation la semaine passée. Il faut dire que les points de ressemblance sont nombreux, mais tous ont été retoqués par le président Satoru Iwata... Malgré tout, même dans ses dénégations, il est impossible de ne pas voir l'ombre de la stratégie mobile d'Apple.... Merci de passer nous voir pour lire cette actu en entier ;-)

Nintendo president Satoru Iwata says that while the DSi's lifestyle-friendly features -- camera, music playback and online capability -- might make it look like a run for Apple iPhone and Sony PSP marketshare, that's not what the company's after. "We wanted users to have the device on them at all times," Iwata told Nikkei.net (subscription required). "By downloading subway maps and other things, for instance, the DSi can be useful for applications other than playing ...