Meet the new DS, and other gems from Nintendo’s media summit

By Joe Fourhman | October 2, 2008

Today’s Nintendo media summit confirmed a lot of rumors, revealed a lot of games, and kinda sorta addressed some key enduring issues. Here’s the greatest hits edition of today’s event, courtesy our pals at GoNintendo.com.

- The “new” DS is dubbed the DSi. The DSi contains two cameras, one between the leaves for when the DSi is open and one on the outside for a closed position. The GBA Slot is gone (but what about Mag Kid, Guitar Hero On Tour, and Pokemon Pal Park?) There’s an SD card slot for storing data. A DSiWare online store will debut with Brain Age games. Built-in Opera browser. Both screens are a wee bit larger than the current DS. The bad news: the US won’t get the DSi until sometime deep into 2009.

- Upcoming Wii update will allow purchase and download of WiiWare and Virtual Console titles directly to an SD card. But will such software be playable from the SD card?

- New Punch-Out!! coming to Wii. Get ready for teh waggle.

- Sin & Punishment 2 coming to Wii. I grabbed the Virtual Console version of the first one (an N64 game) and hated it.

- Wii Speak Channel coming November 16, to allow group voice chat (with representative animated Miis!) between Wiis. If you buy a Wii Speak but your friend does not, your friend will be able to download the Wii Speak Channel anyway for one-way audio chatting.

- Club Nintendo coming to the US. This has been a longstanding source of envy, as the Japanese Club Nintendo always gets seriously awesome free giveaways. I hope NOA will retroactively award credit, because my MyNintendo.com account has like 50 registered games.

Source: GoNintendo