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The Nintendo DSi console has been on sale for around 6 months now. It has been selling well but there is a huge amount of demand for a pink DSi. This colour has been released in other countries but not in the UK. When it does get a UK release, you can expect to see another sales spike.

People that have bought a Nintendo DSi console this year may have been a little disappointed with a lack of games designed specifically for the upgraded machine. So far only games which can be downloaded from the online shop have supported the camera. This would be fine but no games of high quality have been released in the online shop as yet.

One possible reason for the lack of quality games in the online shop is the limit of file size which Nintendo has imposed. Perhaps so that you can keep buying games without ever being limited by running out of storage space, you can only download very small game files on the Nintendo DSi console.

With offline shops there is also a lack of quality games exclusively designed for the new handheld. This might be because games developers don’t want to exclude owners of older generations of the console. The developers could be missing out on good opportunity though. Since no one else is producing good games that work with the cameras it would be easy to conquer the whole of that market. It might be a smaller maker but 90% of the Nintendo DSi console market is better than 3% of the entire DS market.

Pink DSi

Nintendo haven’t given up on the system though. New features are coming. It has been leaked this week that there will be a Speak channel which will allow owner to talk to each other using VoIP services. This feature may be officially released to coincide with the release of the pink DSi which is expected to come next year.

If a Pink DSi doesn’t come to the UK at some point in 2010 I would be very surprised. It is especially likely as an entirely new handheld console is expected from Nintendo next year. This means that they will probably release the last batch of colours including the Pink DSi shortly before they announce that they’re moving on from the Nintendo DSi console.

Nintendo have really taken to cashing in on selling hardware, even if it’s fairly pointless. The Wii balance board for example. How many people are still using after three weeks? The Nintendo DSi console takes this idea even further by releasing a console which adds little to its predecessor technically and even more importantly, it has no games! Not one game that you need the console for. Despite this it is still the best selling handheld console in history. It is ridiculous.

Well at least, after 8 months, there are one or two games on the way. The one announced is My Healthy Cooking coach. Yes for those that don’t have access to the Internet or a cook book but own the latest handheld console, they will be able to see some recipes. Sounds rubbish and as useless. But it is the first “game” to make use of the camera. How? It takes a photo of you and sticks your face over a picture of a chef. Great. Just writing about this waste of money upsets. Why, because it will make the people who design the game a lot of money and take away from the revenues of decent, enjoyable games which rely on more than just a marketing campaign to sell them.