How would you change Nintendo's DSi XL?
By Darren Murph 
posted May 1st 2010 2:01AM
posted May 1st 2010 2:01AM
posted May 1st 2010 2:01AM
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Make it bigger.
@Peytral
Make it bolder.
@Peytral
Thats what she said.
Make the xbox smaller, ohh the DSI XL, i didnt buy it, already have the dsi
@furquanatique ...sorry to hear that...
Make it Cross Compatible with the Wii.
@Peytral That avatar is so creepy..please tell me you are 14.
And make it thinner...if it's going to be this big at least make it thin.
@Peytral do what apple did, Actually give the screen more pixels instead of just bigger with a crappy ass pixelated picture
@Peytral
It's funny how that avatar image gets to you, it doesn't really matter what you say, it's always AWESOME.
@Peytral
Make it smaller :P
@furquanatique : So original. Don't you think that "meem" has been overused?
@Peytral
Make it runs Skype Video Call
@EDay You should know that the "That's What She Said" "meem" has tenure. It's "meme", by the way.
Software
-Video recording and playback (PSP does it)
-MP3 playback for pete's sakes (PSP does it)
-JPG support for images that weren't taken by the internal cameras (PSP does it)
-Allow booting downloaded games off the SD card
-Somehow make the time accessible at any time. Maybe have it pop up on screen (along with a battery power indicator) for a few seconds when you press the start button
-Ditch that 1 dimensional array you call a menu and try again. If you must, copy Wii's menu system.
-Those downloadable demos you can get from kiosks and Wii's? Let us save them to the SD card or internal memory
-Make it so the firmware can be upgraded to actually enhance games like modern (PSP/PS3/360) systems can do
-A multitasking photo app, where a grid of thumbnails are on the bottom screen for you to select which photo to view on the top screen and you can play music at the same time.
-A way to report the device as stolen, so the next time it signs online it locks itself down until it is returned to a retailer/service station who will return it to the original owner
- Allow you to play DSi games you downloaded on another system
Hardware
-Even PSP has a 1.3 megapixel camera, the one DSi uses a joke. Try harder.
-Switch to a USB port for charging, and data transfer to the SD card and internal memory
Backwards Compatibility
-Put the GBA slot back in, I have DS games that require it for pete's sakes. It's not as if you had a lack of space on the DSi XL
-Put GB/GBC compatibility back in the GBA slot with upscaling
-Support Super Gameboy color profiles for GB games
@aubreyq
Stretch out the bottom screen, remove the top screen, get rid of the buttons, install android and call it the Dell Streak so we can actually buy it.
@Extinction I agree to all the points that you have explained, on the software side all those things could be implemented, without added cost to the production of the unit itself, battery life can be offered as an extra battery that could be replaced, nobody would mind paying extra for more juice, if you already paid for the unit, the ability to transfer the games that you already own, it's such a basic idea that it surprise me that they didn't implemented it when they released the dsi, to implement a higher resolution in the unit would require a change in the board, and changes in the production cost, and I doubt that they would make such changes for a last generation unit like that, but if you want to extend the life of the dsi and dsixl, you could give those updates as an option, that would be a sensible and budget wise decision, just being practical, to change internals, specially since they are releasing a new platform, and the old ds is going to be dumped, for the new 3DS.
@Peytral
i love how nobody knows about zoe. you are a winrar
@rutter9
leave the buttons, can't say how many times during bomberman the screen became quite oily, some games do need buttons...
@theshadow27 They used to have that feature in the Gameboy Advance,, but they dropped when the DS came out. I wonder why. I'm 100% for that idea!
@vetiog
Jesus Christ, that had, to be, the longest, sentence, ever, lol.
:/
@yokken
I do
@Peytral bigger and faster -- hopefully it'll be incorporated on the next 3ds model. http://j.mp/3ds-by-nintendo-impressions
@Peytral Bigger would be better.
Anyone who's used one know's it's true.
@the bandit Compared ipad b/c it's bigger than itouch like dsi xl to dsi
here's a more sad but true comparison the itouch has a smaller screen than the dsi xl and it has a little over 3x the pixels and it was released long before the dsi xl burn Nintendo!
Just make ONE giant screen
Four screens, no eight, no wait, sixteen screens!!!
@Marbles
man the 24 screens is the new thing, according to Powercolor lol
@seanGadget you mean like... A PSP? Because I think that may already exist.
@Marbles Oh yeah, well how about 1 screen for each pixel! :P
@Maybach I think you spelled iPad wrong, because the PSP's screen is neither giant or touch screen. Just sayin'.
And what I'd do is put flash in the camera.
@Maybach
Not really.
U can get a wii for 10 bucks more. Why get a dsi xl
@Nerdguru
Portability perhaps?
@Nerdguru I didn't realize the Wii was a portable gaming system, hmmm, learn something new everyday.
@Nerdguru
imagine playing wii on a flight.
@Ming "man could i get you to shift over there a little? I cant swing my arm and as you see im playing tennis on this portable DVD player.Hey latter you want to play some mario party with me?"
@Nerdguru You can get a house phone for $20, why get a cell phone? Oh wait...
@Nerdguru Hey man check out my wii portable, I can play it on a plNe, in a car, on a boat and wait I can even play it in my loving room whoa!
@Nerdguru : For the games, duh.
@revmixman : I agree with this. Cellphones are a huge waste of money. Home phone for the win.
@Nerdguru Maybe you don't have the extra $10?
@EDay Agreed. The DS has way better games than the Wii does.
@Nerdguru
That extra $10 doesn't include the TV...
@EDay I've always thought the opposite. I find a home phone pointless when I have a cellphone
@KIrish18 loving room = win!
How would I change it? I would erase it from existence and just release the damn successor already.
@Nitesh Well I would feed it to Steve Jobs personally, and watch him explode in a fit of Nintendoeyness
Mmm Nostalgia
I would make it the size of a regular DS Lite so it was portable.
Make it smal- oh wait.
increase the screen res for christ sake!